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Actually they started yesterday on day 52. Here are some pics taken last night. So far this morning these two are the only ones to completely come out of the egg, 3 others are slit with noses sticking out and 2 have not started to slit the shells yet. From a het to het breeding it looks like one albino out of seven eggs. The albino came out of the shell before it had completely absorbed the yolk so I am watching it closely today.
Milo

Congrats Milo,

Both of us seem to have early pipper's. The one I have with the unabsorbed yolk seems to be absorbing the yolk. 4 out of 7 out of egg, one still in egg on day 55 (egg is manulay slit).

1 pied
2 pos hets with def pied markers
1 pos het with pos pied marker (need second opinions)
1 pos het absorbing yolk
1 still in slit egg
1 dead.

Be sure to post your final results and days they hatch.

Keep us posted.
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Thanks,

I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.

Will do. So far the three with slits are all just hanging out.
With the last clutch (my first) I manually slit all of the eggs the moment I saw that the first one had pipped. With these I decided to let each slit on their own and then I am enlarging the slit that each has made. Don't know, but I wonder if I had let the first clutch do their own if I could have avoided the still born that I had. Maybe, even though some are early not all are quite ready.
In other off topic news, I found my first rosy litter of the season this moring. They all look a little early and two are connected to the same imbilical cord. Looks like I got my first live twins! I will post the pictures once I download them in a new O/T post. (and it's not even Tuesday)

Milo

Congrats Milo,

Every time I slit or touch the eggs and a snake dies or I believe I killed it, I feel like crap. My Dumeril litter had one still born so sometimes some just do not make it. But I believe I def killed the one I removed from the egg. SO I am not so sure I want to help them any more but yet I also do not want to let them die in the egg If I can do something, catch 22!!

SO many people and books say to slit the eggs within 24-48 hours but most clutches I have had that I did nothing to in any way took as long as 3 days from first to last pip. So who knows.

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Thanks,

I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.

Frank,
...When I used to breed them silly egg laying snakes I had lots of different results with different clutches. Some clutches all would slit eggs within a 24 hour hour period and do fine. Some others would slit them over as much as four days and make me crazy. I had some clutches before I had enough experience that one would slit the egg and the others would not and I left them alone and the ones still in the eggs never pipped and died in the eggs. Looking back this seemed to most often happen in clutches that I kewpt too moist. The babies developed seemingly okay but were not robust enough to pip. When I finally got to where I thought I knew what I was doing I would manually slit all eggs about 12 hours after the first one pipped. All I would do though is cut them a slit and then open it up using cuticle scissors to a window just large enough for them to stick their head thru and then leave them totally alone until they emerged on their own. In clutches of adhered Burmese eggs one snake pipping sometimes will cut through other eggs and so I think manually slitting eggs, even if they are still a day or two away from being ready to emerge probably does not harm them.
Jeff

>>Congrats Milo,
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>>Every time I slit or touch the eggs and a snake dies or I believe I killed it, I feel like crap. My Dumeril litter had one still born so sometimes some just do not make it. But I believe I def killed the one I removed from the egg. SO I am not so sure I want to help them any more but yet I also do not want to let them die in the egg If I can do something, catch 22!!
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>>SO many people and books say to slit the eggs within 24-48 hours but most clutches I have had that I did nothing to in any way took as long as 3 days from first to last pip. So who knows.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Frank Roberts
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>>I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.

Thanks Jeff. I would say egg layers are more stressful for me to breed LOL.

Boa just get me to check on them A LOT when I think they are going to drop their babies. Egg layers stress me with the entire process
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Thanks,

I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.

Milo,
..Congratulations! Those are cute little guys.
Jeff

>>Actually they started yesterday on day 52. Here are some pics taken last night. So far this morning these two are the only ones to completely come out of the egg, 3 others are slit with noses sticking out and 2 have not started to slit the shells yet. From a het to het breeding it looks like one albino out of seven eggs. The albino came out of the shell before it had completely absorbed the yolk so I am watching it closely today.
>>Milo
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Wow! That's a beautiful albino, Milo! Congratulations on your new arrivals.
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Renee
1.0 BRB (Loki)
2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
0.1 blood python (Duchess, arriving later this month)
1.1 Cats (Nightshade & Cuzzy)