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Ok so I need some input. I have many snakes but only a couple of milk snakes. I have a few albino nelsoni 3.4 to be clear. And 0.1 het. I breed the visuals this year and got good eggs from them. (2.4 visual breed all first time breeders) so I had an extra male an 09 that I was not planning on breeding this year and I was not planning on breeding the het female because she is now just a pet for daughter. (was going to breed her but have visuals so I just let her have it) I was cleaning cages a few months back and put the two together for a night. (the 09 male and het female) the next morning after the cages were dry I put them back into there own tubs and cages. well last week the female refused to eat so I thought nothing of it. 5 days later I went to try again and low and behold she dropped 4 eggs. I was in shock. Well the eggs looked dryed so I candled them only smaw small viens and one was a slugg. The eggs looked bad so I cut one open and there was a fetus? with a heart beat. so I removed the other two eggs and set the up in the incubator. Do you think they will make it? Mind you the female eat the whole time till she dropped and never looked gravid. Do you think the eggs have a chance or should I just toss them. If I had planned on breeding her I would have had a nest box. But these were out of the blue never saw them lock up. The eggs dont smell and have nice color but real dry and kind of small. I Use the no substrate method and my other eggs hatched fine this is what I have them set up in now. let me know.

Thanks for your help,
Jon

Set em up, leave em alone, and if they hatch they hatch. Mess around with them and I guarantee that they wont hatch.

I'd Agree, let nature take it's course. You'd be suprised what can come of them, I found out this year with VERY bad Sinaloan Eggs. I mean, awful eggs. I managed one gorgous hatchling out of it.

Scott

>>I'd Agree, let nature take it's course. You'd be suprised what can come of them, I found out this year with VERY bad Sinaloan Eggs. I mean, awful eggs. I managed one gorgous hatchling out of it.
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>>Scott

all good advice. but if they started out extra dry, i'd keep the humidity extra high on them in the beginning. actually, i'd get a spray bottle and mist them fairly thoroughly. dry eggs sorta depress or collapse, and as they absorb more moisture they plump up again, if it's not too late. regardless, don't over-fiddle and don't give up.

Here is a real nasty egg that went on to hatch a perfectly healthy Hondo!

~Doug

The entire end was all bulged out and hard with black fungus. From looking at the rest of the egg the entire time though, I figured it still had a very good chance of hatching, even though the black bulge developed pretty early on into the incubation. Just goes to show what a beating an egg is capable of taking..LOL!

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