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When my stripe cream laid her eggs early I thought she had only one good egg but I inubated them all to be safe. I ended up with what I believe to be 7 good eggs.
Well, when I got home from work today I had one stripe cream hatchling and three pippies...whoo whoo
and the other three eggs are looking good.
the hatchling
pippies
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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Wow Jimmy. That is great. Congrats. It looks like we are having opposite luck. Remember half my first few clutches were definite slugs. Well, I have lost more during incubation. Big bummer. I have eggs from 3 different snakes that are down to just a couple good eggs between them.
Those eggs look good to me. Why did you think they were duds? I know your snake was earlier than expected, but was that the only reason?
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****Misty****
www.sneakyserpents.com
"Life is Killing Me"
>>Wow Jimmy. That is great. Congrats. It looks like we are having opposite luck. Remember half my first few clutches were definite slugs. Well, I have lost more during incubation. Big bummer. I have eggs from 3 different snakes that are down to just a couple good eggs between them.
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>>Those eggs look good to me. Why did you think they were duds? I know your snake was earlier than expected, but was that the only reason?
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>>****Misty****
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Hey Misty,
Sorry about your luck. I hope the eggs you have left do ok.
My first breeder, Arwen, a nice creamsicle, has always given me good clutches with high hatch rates and I figured this season would be no different. She laid 19 eggs that all looked good and for no reason I can discern almost all of those eggs have gone bad. They are incubating the same as all my other clutches but just going bad. I don't get it. The incubation container was on a shelf (in one of my racks) with other egg containers and the moisture level was no different then the others.
Now, as usual, I have had an egg here or there go bad which is no surprise but for almost an entire clutch just to go bad really confuses me.
Now as far as the stripe cream eggs go...four were laid in her water dish and the rest (I think it was 14 total) looked more yellow and felt spongy. Of the ones laid out of the water only one looked good.
I put ten of the eggs in to incubate and threw four obvious slugs away.
It appears as if I got the four out of the water soon enough because they all survived. The one I originally thought was good survived and out of the remaing five three went bad and two survived.
Well, as of this morning the one that came out of the egg yesterday is the only one so far but the other six have all pipped and are peeking out.
whoo whoo
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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Congrats Jimmy!!
Im only getting eggs....
not that thats a bad thing.
By the way, I did end up breeding those Motley Creams I got form you, she gave me 15 good eggs on first clutch. I compared her to the size of my older females and she was a tad bigger so I thought it wouldnt hurt her to lose some weight.
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I have come to the conclusion that there is no cure for snake addiction!
>>Congrats Jimmy!!
>>Im only getting eggs.... not that thats a bad thing.
>>By the way, I did end up breeding those Motley Creams I got form you, she gave me 15 good eggs on first clutch. I compared her to the size of my older females and she was a tad bigger so I thought it wouldnt hurt her to lose some weight.
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>>I have come to the conclusion that there is no cure for snake addiction!
Oh man, I can't wait to see those babies..
My female was actually a little bigger then a couple of my repeat breeders but after thinking about it, over and over....lol, I decided to wait until next season to breed her. I wasn't worried about the males, obviously, but just wanted to give her a little more time.
Now, that I see where you had success I'm kicking myself.
I know they will be beauties.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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Yes, it was a tough deciaion on my part too. I will post pics if and when they hatch. She just laid them on Monday so I have quite a wait....
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I have come to the conclusion that there is no cure for snake addiction!
>>When my stripe cream laid her eggs early I thought she had only one good egg but I inubated them all to be safe. I ended up with what I believe to be 7 good eggs.
>>Well, when I got home from work today I had one stripe cream hatchling and three pippies...whoo whoo
>>and the other three eggs are looking good.
well, all seven eggs have all hatched now..whoo whoo
I will post pics after they shed for the first time
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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****Misty****
www.sneakyserpents.com
"Life is Killing Me"
I just checked on my two trouble clutches. Lost all the remaining eggs, except one from each.
I will forever preach now to not use any mite sprays, or anything for mites around breeding season. There is no doubt in my mind that it is what caused the bad eggs in these snakes.
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****Misty****
www.sneakyserpents.com
"Life is Killing Me"
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