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Hi all, I mentioned in other posts how my corn laid 14 eggs about 3.5 weeks ago. They are looking good except for one. It has some black on it which is growing and it is now indenting. I tried to wipe it off but did not get much off it. The eggs are clumped together as I was unable to get to them soon enough to separate them. My concern is the adjoining eggs. Will this egg damage other eggs close to it? If I am not able to save it, should I cut it from the others? First time hatching eggs and I am a little nervous.
Thanks
Joel

Check my post below, those eggs are wanting to "grow" I open the container every 2 days or so and using a very soft eye shading brush I brush the fuzz off the areas that may have it. It eventually comes back but this seems to be keeping it in check from spreading. Hopefully someone will reply with a way for you to get rid of it all together.
Foot Hill Reptiles

>>Hi all, I mentioned in other posts how my corn laid 14 eggs about 3.5 weeks ago. They are looking good except for one. It has some black on it which is growing and it is now indenting. I tried to wipe it off but did not get much off it. The eggs are clumped together as I was unable to get to them soon enough to separate them. My concern is the adjoining eggs. Will this egg damage other eggs close to it? If I am not able to save it, should I cut it from the others? First time hatching eggs and I am a little nervous.
>>Thanks
>>Joel

If it is attached to adjacent eggs don't worry about it.
I had a couple of clutches where one egg went bad but were attached. I just let them go. Wasn't anything I could do about it.
The eggs around them have done fine.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
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Draybars Snakes

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