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anyone hatched eggs removed from a recently dead gravid female,Her sister laid yesterday and checked her this morning and was linp and dead before burying i felt eggs,so i operated and removed 10 eggs and they slid out fairly easy from the sausage liner ,btw it was a Fla King.time will tell they are a lil slimey and removed less than an hour before pic i will give a weekly report on them.Thanks C

I have tried a couple times with captives and road kills. The eggs have always gone bad after about a week or so. But that has not stopped me from trying.
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"Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew!" Charlie Papazian

Iv'e done it to. Never had one survive.
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www.Bluerosy.com

almost all of the time they will be dead also...when the female dies, they die, right away almost

I have a friend that has taken eggs from roadkilled turtles...and yes he had one box turtle hatch, so it's not impossible...

the eggs you have look like they were not 100% ready to start with, so that will make it worse....

good luck...if they go bad, it will be quickly...so you won't have to wait long....might turn greenish (to buegreen or yellow) inside real fast...and they will smell badly...

...have fun.......never stop trying though.....

..JY
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I've done it many times with turtles. It even sometimes works with lizards-I've had veiled cham eggs haych fine after being removed from a dead (effbound) female.

But snakes-almost never, for some reason. My own theory is that they are not adequately shelled until right at the moment of hatching, as they leave the oviduct.
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

I meant "moment of LAYING" in above post...
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....