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Our large female Cinnamon finally gave us eggs! However, because she was not bred this year (she wasn't eating) and we never saw an ovulation, we were not expecting them. Thankfully, the quick work of my husband got our incubator up and running in five minutes, but they were in the slightly too-dry tub with her at least 12 hours. I candled them a couple of days later and they had all developed lots of spidery vascular tissue, so we are hoping for the best. She was bred to a handsome Liesen Line Black Pastel Pewter and a Woma last year, so anyone's guess what these guys will be. It may be too much to hope for, but there is a small chance of a Silver Bullet....

Cinnamon X Liesen Line Black Pastel OR Woma
10 eggs total
4/23/2012

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26 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma, 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 1.0 husband

I hope you hit the odds in your favor!

Obviously, those eggs look like they need some moisture, but I think that eggs are more resilient than most people think.
So, what do they look like now?

And - when WAS the last time she was bred?
cool to know...
Good Luck!

Turns out my husband and I were keeping separate records of the breedings, so she had actually locked up with the Pewter Male twice and the Woma male once in January.

They eggs don't look any better : Four for sure have gone completely bad, so we removed those. However, one more may be going bad, but we can't remove it from the main group of eggs.

Any tricks to separating the stuck together eggs?
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26 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma, 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 1.0 husband

Get a sandwich baggie or some sarran wrap. Place it, so that where you puncture the egg, the albumen is directed into the bag. Then cut away the egg. Best thing I can come up with.

I know lots of people will leave bad eggs in, but I always worry about rotten egg gasses affecting such a small system like an incubator. I think it would be entirely different in the wild, in a burrow, with more air exchange; than our sealed up containers trying to keep in the humidity.

Saw the bad egg off of the others with dental floss. Worked well for me before... good luck on that bullet!
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