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Hey Andrew!
Just wondering how you made out with your kimberlys? I'm not sure if you wrote any follow up after they started pipping.
Take care,
Mike

hey mike,

that whole batch died full term, i think instead of pipping it was an egg burst. the eggs look like they were scratched open, but i don't think so. that was the first batch and i kept them too wet. the rest are being kept dry and look perfect, they should hatch in a couple weeks.

you had problems with too much water too right?

andrew

I am wondering how you answer that so clearly? Did u have some kind of test done? What was it that leads you to say it was too much water?

I find there can be many reasons for eggs dying full term. And to wet, is only one of those reasons. I think normally they don't all die from that.

I also never had an egg burst from being to moist or wet. They normally bead and then die a slow death. Thanks Frank

no, no test:

i just figured that was the case, but that is my inexperience. i am sure it is not the last batch of eggs i foul up.

i have eggs on too much water (i think) that all go full term (i cut the others open, all full term kimberlys)

and then other eggs 3 weeks apart that look perfect, no problems, on dry perilite

i really don't know what i did wrong.

when i was setting up the new batch i did however intentionally put in less water just in case i had put in too much with the others.

i am sure there are other variables involved, too much water just sounds like the obvious one

andrew

Too bad about the eggs. I had various problems, mostly mental. I had some die full term as well, though only a few of each clutch. I'm wondering, why does too much water have the potential to cause problems near the end (not that that is necassarily what happened to yours)? I think I might have heard the answer to this but if I did I forget.
Good luck on the next clutch due.