Sorry about your girl, but congrats on the rest. I have never really understood why snake eggs are so different with regards to hatching after the death of the mother or when taken surgically. I have never hatched even a single snake egg, even when the cesarean is seemingly done early, and the eggs are properly handled, marked, and immediately incubated. Maybe it is just me.But I have direct and indirect experience with a fair number.You can surgically remove turtle eggs using the same anesthestic protocol and they will hatch. You can pick up snapping turtle eggs off of the road from a hbc female that have been laying in the sun for awhile and many will hatch. You can also incubate and hatch turtle eggs from females that are slaughtered for meat (unfortunately, we still have a commercial turtle buyer/ meat business (snappers and softshells mostly) here in of all places S.E. Iowa.), and even the eggs that are obviously way immature and have poor shell development will often hatch. And they are not handled gently or incubated carefully. Obvious differences in physiology, but I'm not sure exactly what the factors are. Anyone have any ideas or insight., or contrasting experiences?

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