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Came home from work to find eastern milk eggs pipping already.I did not expect them for a few weeks yet.They were layed on 6/21.
These are my first with easterns.Has anyone else in here hatched them?If so,what kind of incubation times have you recorded?

Congrats! That's awesome. I've never hatched out easterns, so I don't know if such a short incubation period is normal. That seems extremely short to me.

Take some pics when they come out of the eggs if you have a chance.

thanks,

Dave
DNS Reptiles

Did you incubate them in a microwave? LOL Derek

Are all of those LTT ? 11 eggs seems like a lot.
I hatched mine in about 8 weeks at ambient temperatures 70 - 80 degrees

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Doug
....and am I the only one here that thinks designer snakes are ugly ?

I had already had corn snake eggs in the incubator set at 82 degrees.They are from a female that an exterminator friend of mine removed from someones basement.

Did you have any luck feeding them yet?If so,what did they feed on.The locality that these come from has no lizzard populations.I would think that they would have to get started on insects in the wild.The only other thing here would be deer mice.And whats the chances that a hatchling would stumble opon a freshly born litter of them?I'm going to try mouse tails if I can't get them started on new born pinks.

I don't know where you are...

But in the NE, eastern milk babies usually start off on small snakes or small lizards.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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In New York they eat new born garters, brown snakes, ribbon snakes and maybe ringnecks This is a photo of the stomach content (rinced feces) of a wild caught yearling LTT that i found last year.
Some people keep gravid garter snakes when they find them to get the hatchling milks started.

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Doug
....and am I the only one here that thinks designer snakes are ugly ?

Hi lbrat,

I've hatched many triangulum and the majority will start on newborn domestic pinks without issue. In fact, triangulum are generally one of the easier American milks to get started.

Walt

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9 out,last two are pipped.

Nice babies you have there! I wish I could get my hands on a baby eastern. I absolutely them.