All of the Eastern hatchlings are finally here. Over the past three weeks three clutches hatched. All three took about 115 days with eggs kept at mostly 70 - 75 degrees until the past month when I raised them to 70 - 80 . After tallying the first clutch, 3.0, and the second clutch, 4.3, I figured too many males: next year keep them warmer. Then the last clutch finished today with 2.6. Overall, two other good eggs died before maturity and a third went to the end with severly kinked hatchling dead inside. There may be truth to the assertion on this forum that heavy (obese?) females don't breed as well as slender ones. The female which produced the smallest clutch and only three viable hatchlings was much thicker than the other two.
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Eastern hatching time is done
steve fuller
Jul 22, 2007 08:14 PM
Replies (3)
Mike Meade
Jul 22, 2007 08:26 PM
You really scored on that last clutch, huh? Good job!
daveb
Jul 22, 2007 08:50 PM
congratulations!
I am interested, why did you increase the temps toward the end of incubation?
daveb
steve fuller
Jul 23, 2007 03:39 PM
Thank you. In June a contributer to this forum suggested hatchlings might not have enough energy at too low a temperature to cut their way out of the egg.
