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Just hatched today (egg on left) from an egg I almost threw away. My breeders (06) from a fem 3x and male dbl. het ghost. Three more eggs that may pop their corks.

Hey!,..that's a really cool aberrant tricolor that came out of that egg!....CONGRATULATIONS!!

I had a VERY similar looking egg situation this year too. The egg began to mold and had a weird very hard lump on the end very early on for some weird reason. Well, as time went on I started thinking more and more that the egg was indeed still viable. It was still nice and firm, and didn't have the bad smell that bad eggs typically have at the later stages of incubation either.

My "motto" has always been,....."if there's any doubt,don't throw it out"..LOL!

The hatchling pipped and was totally normal in every respect.

Glad you didn't toss that one, and I'm SURE you are too!

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

That was the only reason the egg didn't get tossed; no rotten egg smell, even when the moldy area kept growing.

Mike

.........and way to go on using some good common sense there!

Yeah, bad eggs that go that long almost ALWAYS have a very rank odor to them, unless of course the neonate dies for whatever reason much later in the development.

Again,....nice aberrant hatchling!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

I'm beginning to like moldy eggs, that don't smell rotten, and take over 80 days to hatch out. 2 more to go, I hope. No more incubators for colubrids. On the shelf and out of sight.

Mike

Forgot to mention these eggs along with a bunch of campbells got knocked off a 7'shelf by one of my cats 4 weeks ago. Lost the camps, save one, and 4 hondos. Next season, I'll put the eggs on another shelf where they can't get to it, unless they got kangaroo in their genes.

Mike