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Better late then never. My Hondo het hypo finally laid her clutch this morning. 9 eggs and all appear to be fertile!

Congrats on your clutch!

You say, appear to be fertile. How can you tell if they are or are not fertile?

I'm the one that caught the wild Eastern Milks in a few post below this one, this is one of my questions.

Thanks and congrats,

Chaz Neely
constrictors@comcast.net

The first thing to look for is a nice white color, smooth and firm to the touch not hard or squishy, rounded ends not pointed.

A good way to know is also to "candle" them. In a dark room shine a light through them and you should see blood vessels in the fertil ones. The vessels are visable just 2 or 3 days after laying in kings and should be the same for milks. Not that you cant see anything on the day they are layed, but it is far more obvious after 2 days which are fertile.

I made a cardboard plate with a hole just a little smaller than an egg and set the egg in it and shined a bright flashlight up through the bottom. With this set up I could check all the seperated eggs easy. I located the embryo and made sure that I sent the eggs in the incubator with the embryo up.

Hope this helps.
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1 BP
4 Cal Kings 3 alb 1 het
3 Alb Corn
1 Rev Alb Nelsons

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1 BP
4 Cal Kings 3 alb 1 het
3 Alb Corn
1 Rev Alb Nelsons

thanks amanda and cb and also amanda answered your question on fertile eggs.