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How many days have you guys been witnessing?

my one clutch this year was 8 eggs and hatched at 51 days (first egg) to 55 days (last egg) at 82 degrees.
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Chris & Alliey
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I had hypos hatch right at 54 days, but het pastel pinks laid on the same day hatched at 62 days. The incubation temp was 80.

Wendell

In years past, 51 days is by far the most common period of time at 82-84 degrees.
One clutch in particular, at the same temp, hatched in 37 days.

This year it was generally no earlier than 51 days and some went 55 days at 82-84 degrees
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Kevin Rhodes

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Hatch times depend on a few factors and not just temperatures...

The amount of humidity the eggs are taking in is also a factor so your incubation substrate and how it was set up is also a factor...

Carbon dioxide is also a factor... When carbon dioxide levels increase in a nest spot of incubation container it acts as a hatch trigger...

Also, oxygen intake is a big factor in hatch time... The more oxygen eggs take in during incubation, the faster the embryo develops...

These are just some other things besides temperature to consider when we talk about hatch times...

Thanks all! I'm at 47 on my first clutch of 2010 and can't remember from last year!

Pips start at 49-53 days at 82 deg. At my place. Incubated in a vermiculite/perlite mixture. Oxygen saturation is at 72.054 % and carbon dioxide buildup at pip time is a 761 ppm. Just messing with you Gregg.
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Ultimate Hognose

The earliest I had hatch this year were at 44 days the latest 50 days. I do not use an incubator. Moistened vermiculite, temp average 84 degrees. Dont ask what my humidity,oxygen or co2 was lol. I open my lids on my rubbermaids every couple days and maybe lost 4 eggs this year, not bad considering I hatched out somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 hogs this year and twice that much in other colubrids.
Mike Nearhoof

My 3 little guys were kept 83-84 degrees and pipped at 47 days and made their way out at 49. They were kept on vermiculite.

Chris

I just hatched a clutch of wild eastern eggs from an injured female. 14 fertile eggs-all hatched, along with 13 slugs and two eggs that looked good but never candled alive from day 1. temp 82-85--most consistently at 83. First hatched at 48 days, most at 49 and the latest one at 53 (after I slit her). they have been returned to the wild. I had never seen hognose eggs before, and they were paper thin with little or no obvious calcification. and very turgid throughout incubation despite keeping them pretty dry. Is that normal?Sickly looking female produced very robust babies, although I was able to feed her a few weeks before she layed.

John and Mike, sorry if my post was too nerdy... LOL...