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Has anyone here have any experience on hatching very small fertile BP eggs?
I have a Cinny female that was about 1800g when breeding started, approx. 1200g after laying. She fed little during breeding. Her clutch consisted of 6 eggs with two slugs, the four "good looking" eggs appear fertile but are tiny--65g average.

Anyone have success on hatching small eggs?

Thanks....

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Michael

Just treat them the same as you would any size eggs. I would make no changes because they are small. I have had all sizes of eggs through the years....all seem to incubate and hatch the same for me.

Good Luck!

Susan
SSNAKES Reptiles

Thanks for the response...have you specifically hatched 60-65g (or smaller) eggs?

Here's my concern:

I've observed my hatchlings to weigh 15-40g less than the total egg weight (when laid). A 65g egg by those observations would lead me to believe that if incubation were successful I should expect hatchlings in the 25g-50g range. OR, they develop normally and perish for lack of room in the egg. I don't know...
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Michael

I've never heard of a snake not having enough space to develope. I think that they'd just be small babies. What's the normal weight for a ball python egg? I've got some corn snake eggs in the incubator and some eggs are less than half the size of the normal eggs, but all of them are developing at the same pace.
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My menagerie
2.2 Ball Pythons (expecting eggs!) 1.1 Amazon Tree Boa 1.0 Corn Snake (and 9 eggs) 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.10 Bearded Dragons 2.1.2 Crested Geckos (and 4 eggs!) 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles (eggs?)1.0 Northern Mockingbird 0.3 Chickens 2.0 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and 3 Black Rat snake eggs

My BP eggs are usually in the 90g-105g range. I'm not so optimistic regarding the outcome, but we shall see. Maybe I'll see a "healthy" 20g Super Cinny in 52 days....
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Michael

They will be fine. I recently got a clutch from a 1350g female. She laid 8 eggs and the entire clutch was only 470g with eggs ranging from 45-65g each. Last year I hatched out a perfectly healthy snake from a 40g egg.
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John Vandegrift

Normal hatchling weights? Very reassuring to hear--thanks for the post.
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Michael