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A while back I offered my Pseustes some bird eggs and they had no interest. They were un fertalized.

I just offered my female Pseustes some fertile Ringneck Pheasant eggs and she was in the blue. She was transferred to a new cage and she ate the eggs after the transfer in the blue within a minute!!!
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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

Wow! A very interesting observation, Bill.
I have always wondered if mine would accept bird eggs. After reading Quetzal and Monica's article about Costa Rican Pseustes poecilonotus, I offered mine some infertile chicken eggs, with no marked interest. I'll have to try this though, as based on your observations fertile eggs seem to be the way to inspire some interest from the snakes.
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Roy Blodgett
Green Man Herpetoculture
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1.1 Drymarchon corais
2.2 Pseustes sulphureus
1.1 Pseustes poecilonotus poecilonotus
1.1 Lystrophis pulcher
1.1 Lampropeltis getula californiae (desert phase)
1.1 Boiga dendrophila dendrophila
2.3 Pogona vitticeps (snow and red/gold)
1.0 Iguana iguana

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I have offered mine both infertile chicken and quail eggs with no interest. Apparently it varies in locality which poecilonotus tend to go for eggs. I have two unrelated poecilonotus from unrelated parents ranging in different locals and neither have shown much interest, but I have tended to offer eggs to one more than the other...I guess I keep trying new things and maybe ill get a hit.

Use small eggs or else their heads may burst.

This is one of my egg eaters chowing down a chicken egg but many of these will only take fertile eggs and they must smell fresh from the nest or they pass on them often. However like anything, once they condition themselves to eggs in captivity, they will take any egg fertile or not or scented or not so the pseustes may do the same.

Perhaps in the blue she could not see and was less stressed and this made it not mind about the eggs?

Dan