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Hello everyone. I have a question here which deals with genetics and incubation periods.
I took a female albino which was sold to me as a possible giant and bred her to my male albino jungle giant. Now she gave me her first clutch of this year on Feb. 4th and her second clutch on Feb. 21st. One of the eggs in the first clutch went bad but the other still looks good and is nice and plump.
Now the second set of eggs hatched this past weekend so that has me thinking. Do baby giants take longer to hatch or is this first egg just taking a little longer. They were all set up in the same container to prevent a mix-up with my other pairings so everything from medium to temps has been the exact same.

Here is a picture of the first 2 babies to hatch out resting right next to what is supposed to be their older brother or sister.

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Phil Red Hernandez-

If you are incubating at 82-86 you will get males and females and the males tend to hatch earlier then the females in my experiance. Having said that, that doesn't mean the first to hatch will be males and you won't know what the sex is until it is about 4 months old. The older egg looks fine in the picture so don't worry I've had eggs last 70 days before they hatched and others 43 and they were all incubated at 80 degrees. GL

Thank you. I'm going to leave the egg in there with the rest and see how things turn out. I just thought it was unusual that the 1st egg is at 9 weeks of incubation and the 2nd set of eggs hatched at 7 weeks. But then I wasn't so sure if it had anything to do with the genetics of the parents.
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Phil Red Hernandez-

Candling will answer the question of whether the egg is fertile or not.
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