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Strange question perhaps, but I just need to know if anyone has done this. What was the outcome? Did it hatch later?

The closest I have come is to travel 40 or so miles with some eggs that were about 3 days old, dropped the ice chest they were in to boot. They all hatched anyway 67 days later.
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Mark

snake eggs are a lot more resilient than people think.

I used to buy them all the time and bring them home on my bike. That had to be good for 'em! I'd say about 1/2 to 3/4 that I shook up on the ride home still managed to hatch.
The ones i took better care of nearly always hatched. We used peat, sphagnum moss,and/or newspaper back then.
I hatched my first indigo like that.
Back in the '70's I worked with a guy who'd sell just about anything...In fact on his price list was this:

Snake Eggs--Available only during June, July and August.
Six fertile eggs of two or more species with sufficient incubating material and instruction sheet. $6.00 ppd.
You could get a dozen for $10.

Also of note (I remember laughing at these outrageously HIGH prices!) were:
Scarlet kingsnake (Lampropeltis doliata)1 to 2 feet
small$7.50 med.$10. large $12.50 Extra large $15.00
Common kingsnake (L.g.getulus)
$6.-$12.50
Fl kingsnake (L.g.floridana)
$3.-$10.
I'm thinking of having a sale like that this year

:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

>>I'm thinking of having a sale like that this year

Sign me up!!!!

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Ace

I usually have a give away...so....I thought it'd be o.k. to go retro...(I wish I could still get squirrell monkeys for 8 bucks...)
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

I had quite a collection of old time price lists at one time that I threw away because I didn’t see any point in hanging on to them. I could kick myself now when I am reminded by posts like Tom’s. There were places that sold everything you would see in a Tarzan movie (Including those classic “African” jaguars, macaws and tapirs) in some of those old things! Classic stuff I wish I could look at again. In my old age I can’t even remember the names of them or I’d be looking to collect them again. I’m 46 years old, not THAT old, but I can remember armadillos for five bucks, indigos were 25.00, I think? And that was considered mighty expensive. Heck, I sold diamondbacks for $3.00 per foot to the Miami Serpentarium back when I was a teenager. Hey, the great Bill Haast was ripping me off!

And many "herpers" like us would get a huge kick out of some of the old prices!lol.......Like when two older neighborhood kids came to my house back around 1970, and wanted to sell me the BIGGEST MONSTER of an Indigo I ever saw in my life to this day!!. It was 8-1/2 to 9 ft long!!!......the real "kicker" is they only wanted EIGHT BUCKS!! for the thing!....it's head was as big as a grown mans fist!, and it was twice as big around as my arm(being only ten at the time!).....eight bucks back then to me might as well of been $1,000. It was impossible to scrape up!. My mom wouldn't buy it for me cause she said I wasn't doing too well with my school work!lol......I would have rather had my ass beat up and down the street, than for her to do that to me!..she always knew how to punish me were it would do the most damage!lol....so I had to watch those kids walk away with that awesome "noble beast" of an Indigo, and watch them disappear into the sunset!...man!,..did that hurt!.............and to think they wanted less than a dollar per foot for that thing!! those were different times my friends......................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

Whats your moms phone number? We all need to give her a call and tell her how abusive she was. LOL!

Way off the subject now, but I thought I’d provide an opportunity to reminisce a little bit for some of us older herpers. Ever wonder what really got us out herpin as kids?
IT WAS THE SUGAR!





For Quazy energy!!!

If all that sugar didn’t get you motivated to flip every board in your (and every nearby) neighborhood, look what the kids in our day would get- free guns!!!

Yes, I do have too much time on my hands today...

(and no, I never shipped a snake egg!)

I remember ALL of those!LOL.......only I guess instead of a free "Kentucky Rifle", today you would get your choice of a "A-K 47", or a "MAC-10" to "cap" your subjects!!LOL
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

Geez, where'd you get the time machine? I was too hopped up on Shasta soda and didn't save enough Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrappers for one. I went for the flying saucer and the x-ray specks instead!Man rootin' tootin' raspberry, that's ancient!!! So am I, I guess, no wait the cat spilled my beer..............
Todd Hughes

Yeah!,.....I wish she would have just slapped me around, or put me on restriction like she usually did, than to deny me that "MONSTER" Indigo!!LOL...............................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

...tapirs. One got away and into the neighborhood. What a blast THAT was! Anyway, 20 yrs later I was drinkin' in a nearby saloon with some buddies and that very subject was brought up by my friend. We had no idea that HE was the guy laughing at ME (idiot)trying to get hold of a full grown tapir in his yard 20 yrs. earlier. Had to toss back a few on that one.
If you got $3. per foot for diamondbacks, you were doing almost 3x as good as me. Bill H. would only come off $1.-$1.50 when I would drop by. Same with Ross A...
Most times I'd just trade Ray S. for some other snake...
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

HAHAHA, well then put me at the top of the list for 4 of everything at those prices, Mark!
Todd Hughes
P.S. don't forget the snake eggs!