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Here they are. Not nearly as bad as the ones pictured below with the pine snakes so that makes me feel a little bit better. They look a little worse now, these pictures were taken about a week ago.



Foot Hill Reptiles

no oppinions?

Jason,
I hate to be the one to say it but those eggs are bad. They have sunken in because the inside of the egg has solidified. If the eggs are really 100 days old then the two that still look good, have probably died in egg as well. I have had quite a few this year that went over the hatch time. The rest of the clutch hatched. I cut them open to find a partially to fully formed snake, dead. When you make a small cut in the egg, you should get a clear fluid to come out, if the egg is good. Sometimes, you may cut a small blood vessel, and you may get a tiny drop of fresh blood. On eggs that are bad, you will get a red tinged fluid and a kinda "dead" smell.
Take one of those sunken in eggs between your thumb and finger. Give it just a little squeeze. If it is springy and solid, I guarantee it is bad. If it is soft and pliable, it may still be good.
I am betting it is bad. Sorry
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Ok as soon as I read your post Iran over to them and did what you said, All 7 eggs are still very much so soft and pliable, in fact when gently pushing on the bottom the dented in tops would pop out.
Foot Hill Reptiles

I think you're reaching the point in your mind when you're going to need to make the decision to just cut them or risk going nuts!

They do look kinda bad. No one is going to take responsibility for telling you to cut them or not. If someone tells you to cut them and the snake is formed, but dies, then it's their fault, if you KWIM. It's a personal decision.

First of all everyone here nows I would never point a finger for any advice given to me, no matter how bad it may have been. I am simply looking for opinions from those that may be more experienced than I will eggs not hatching.I think I will sit on them a little while longer after the comments made here. I would hate to cut them and find out one more day would have given me healthy snakes, At the same time they are not hurting anything by staying in the incubator. Thanks everyone for all the help in this annoying time.
Foot Hill Reptiles

jason, i think they are too far gone. just clip 1 and i clear liquid comes out and you see a baby MOVING that 1 is still good. but more than likely they are dead. what is this the 4th time you've asked for opinions!?!?! just clip 1 and if its alive it will stay alive for a while in the egg.... that way you will know for sure. Live babies will move- dead babies are dead....(obviously)
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I didn't mean to offend you. Sometimes the tone of posts doesn't come through effectively is all. I just noticed that you seem antsy about the lack of response (by the number of posts). I know that I am very obsessive about things and something lie that can just drive me nuts from thinking on it for too long. Also, I didn't mean to imply that you would be accusatory of other members, but that other members may be hesitant to post their opinions.

Truce...

no offence was taken or intended, i will "clip" one tonite and report my findings
Foot Hill Reptiles

Ok so I got home and cliped one, Clearly bad "filled with jellow" then another and another. Out of the 7 I found 3 that still looked good inside but the snakes within them were way under developed to be this old. For all intents and purposes they appeared alive so they were left alone in the incubator. The other 4 for sure were no good. Its kind of sad because I took one out of one of the bad eggs and realized there were 2 dead snakes in the egg. Darn that would have been cool. Oh well anyway thanks for the help. My other clutch is only a couple weeks old so we have more time before I start freaking out about them.
Foot Hill Reptiles

Clip off piece of the shell give jus a lil squeeze if thers no movement inside probably dead then. but if there is sumthing open up more and look. worth a shot. most babies are so skitish they could just be to scared to come out need sum help getting out.