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I have seen several posts lately of people who have cut open eggs or want to cut open their eggs, I don't get it. I have had eggs go 79 days before they hatched, and they were healthy, beautiful babies. Let nature take its course, if they don't hatch and die inside the egg, there was likely a good reason for it.......
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Sam
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>>I have seen several posts lately of people who have cut open eggs or want to cut open their eggs, I don't get it. I have had eggs go 79 days before they hatched, and they were healthy, beautiful babies. Let nature take its course, if they don't hatch and die inside the egg, there was likely a good reason for it.......
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Josh
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A few weeks ago, I posted where I had a clutch of eggs go for 75 days without hatching, so I took a very sharp, sterilized exacto knife and cut a tiny slit in one of the eggs to see if it was still good. They were blizzard eggs, and it was difficult to tell by candling it. When some thick, grayish-yellow material came out of the slit, I thought the baby had died so I opened the egg to see what had happened to it. To my surprise, it was still alive, and it was the yolk sack that I nicked with the knife, so who knows what damage could have been done to the little one bu cutting it all the way open! If clear fluid had come out of the tiny slit, I would have patched it with a small piece of torn paper towel, and put the egg back in the incubator to hatch on it's own.

I would like to stress to everyone that this is NOT common practice, and is in NO WAY what people should be doing simply because they are being impatient for eggs to hatch!!! This is a very risky and irresponsible thing to do. Furthermore, you can very easily injure or kill the unborn baby by doing this, not to mention wind up with a preemie on your hands that has extremely special needs. That is exactly what happened to my little blizzie, and I will never do it again!

If I am the one that "inspired" all of you to do this, then I regret I ever admitted doing it. I should have known better than to give any of you that information, and am very disappointed that some of you think this is the "latest thing". Please stop!
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Marcia McGuiness
Golden Gate Geckos
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Hi Marcia. I recently cut open 3 of my eggs, they were all molded over and yellow, and dented. Instead of throwing them out, I was interested in see what was inside. By no means would I ever cut open an egg to induce hatching, nor would I cut open an egg for the hecko of it. I don't really think you 'inspiried' us all, but don't get stressed. (it seemed like you were a bit distrought(sp) in your post. ) I use a sterilized knife too and wouldn't do anything to me being unmoral.

I forgot what the other posts said, so I don't really want to keep going in case I went off a tangent.

Michael