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I am sure I will know in a day or two but..... When babies first start pipping does it appear as a very small red/brown dot? Maybe I am just getting ansy!
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.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 Ball Python "Rocky Ballboa" (Didn't name her!)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

I have never seen an egg start to pip. by the time I see it, it is already a slice.
i have seen an egg ooze at a spot. Maybe thats how the babies start to pip. By poking a hole that oozes, then slicing it.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

I *almost* saw one pip this year.
There was no pip, I turned my head to attens to something else, and looked back at my eggs - and there was a good sized slit.

I did see an alligator lizard egg pip last year - the egg tore like a zipper with bubbly egg white pussing out as the egg slit. It happens very fast.

Don't know what the red dot is - but I did see what appeared to blood on some of the pips this year, I assume from vessels that had been attached to the embryo - or possibly from the egg tooth.
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11.14 L. getula californiae (Cal. King)
2.3 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 L. getula floridana (Brooksi)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
4.2.14 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

check out these videos I shot

pipping!!!

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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)