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My incubator is finally as full as it's gonna get for this season. 1 clutch of 5 has already hatched, and these 4 clutches equal 25 eggs. So a total of 30 eggs for my first year of really trying to breed. I'm definitely satisfied.

On a side note, today when I was moving a box around to make room for the next box to be put into the incubator, I tilted one and an egg rolled over. I felt the weight shift and moved it back right away. So this egg spent about 2 seconds rolling upside down, and then back to where it was. Honestly, (and luckily I guess) this is the only unhealthy egg I have. It was amongst a clutch that was dominated by slugs, and this one has about 4 veins and is half slug itself. I'm not even expecting it to survive, but if it happens to pull through, or if it was a healthy egg to begin with, how much damage do you think that roll would have done to it? Is that simple, quick motion enough to kill an egg? I don't think it would be, but just wondering if anyone has noticed an egg that takes the slightest turning/rolling ending up not making it? Just curious. Thanks a lot. Ryan.

congrads on the clutches, i thought for years to rotate an egg accidentally meant its death, ive found in the past couple years that ball eggs are quite indestructable. a kid called me saying his two ball pythons he housed together for a few years had a unexpected clutch of eggs in there cage one day. despite my instructions on how to get them over to me, he brought them in a card board box rolling around and a hard shell he said they had been in there for a day or so, which means probably also they been around 83-84 in temp...4 out of 4 eggs hatched healthy babies
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MikeJ-solar serpents

I think the only reason your not supposed to rotate an egg is to reduce the chance of breaking the veins which are attached to the shell from the developing snake inside which supplies oxygen, you will probably notice if the egg has died after about a week as it will either start to go bad or not.
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