Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but those eggs aren't fertile. If there's ANY mildewy smell to the eggs at all.. they aren't any good. The only eggs that hatch that look like that are eggs that have already been growing for 4-5 weeks....Those appear to be slimey looking... and if you held them up to your nose you'd smell something like mildew coming off them.. I know... I had 2 years in a row where all my eggs went like that...So this year I switched a few things around... I went to vermiculite instead.. a very fine vermiculite thats just barely moistened with a spray bottle and mixed until all of it appears slightly damp and holds a ball when squeezed in the hand... and put my Hovabator incubator on a dimmer switch.. After the past 2 years of hatching only 5 babies total...I've got 10 healthy growing eggs now which is more than I've ever had at one time... 4 of which are only a week or 2 from hatching.. maybe less than that...

These are examples of healthy eggs at 3 weeks...




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Lucien

1.1 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)(Sutekh and Isis)
5.11.Leopard geckos (1.2 Blizzards (Caine, Phoenix, and Mirage), 0.2 Tangerine Albinos (Tequila Sunrise ...Tiki for short, and Casper), 1.0 Tremper Albino (Mycah), 0.3 Poss. Het. Albino (Annika, Lace, and Aris), 1.1 dbl. het blizzard x tang albino (Malice, Malfeas), 1.0 Full Stripe Chocolate Tremper Albino (Discord), 0.1 pastel (Raven) and 1.2 Normals)
0.1 Savannah Monitor (Kiros) (R.I.P. November 18, 2005)
13 rats (plus pups)
2 Dogs (Loki and Storm)
2 cats (Ashe and Hercules)

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