I had a wicked storm that hit the very day one of my ladies was going to lay. Of course the electricity went out for about 4 days. Naturaly she went into hibernation during this time. Finally I was able to slowly heat her back up and get the eggs out of her. Well during the incubation, there was another storm that knocked the electricity out for another two days. Eggs sat in 49 degrees for that time. So far I heated them back up and 1 died. Its been a couple weeks back at temp and the rest look great. Do you think I should destroy the eggs or see them out? I know temp fluxuations tend to create genetic deformities, but this is a special batch I'm working on. I'm torn any ideas?
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So what are my chances
snmherp
Jan 14, 2007 04:28 PM
Replies (2)
nathan23
Jan 14, 2007 04:37 PM
I would go ahead and incubate them. Why give up on them? If they hatch and they have diformities or are shoing bad sighns of weakness. Then do something about it. A couple days with low temps should be fine.
good luck
peace,
nathan
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snmherp
Jan 14, 2007 08:29 PM
Yeah I was thinking of seeing them through, considering I've been working on the "greenies" for a while. I just hate having to do "the deed" to the cute little Quazimoto babies. This happened once before, a few years ago, and I had to put half a clutch down. Except one I kept that reminded me of Sloth from the Goonies.
