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I know this is the ball forum but I also know that there are alot of experienced Ball breeders out there. My female albino burm laid a clutch of over forty eggs yesterday. Two were small and nippled and I disposed of them. Three were abnormally large and seemed thin shelled. All of the other eggs appear to be fertile (large white and full). I placed all of the eggs into an incubator. The three "mutant eggs" were blue and green today (they are in the same incubator but separate from the others. Two of the "good" eggs have also developed a green hue. The two are attached to an egg mass of twenty. Temp is 87 and humidity about 75%. Please help I don't want to lose the entire clutch! Thank you!

temps.........89

himidity........?......higher than 75........

anyways....blue eggs so fast...means they weren't fertile to begin with I bet.....nothing you can do now but chuck out the bad eggs..........

it happens.........

.........you used one male?

...........what were there temps?.........sperm maybe was too cold or too hot..maybe she was too fat to fertilize all the eggs......sounds like alot.......40.....good batch....

good luck.........

Jy

...if attached by a SMALL connection can usually be teased apart from a good egg using a hemostat or even a non-ball-tipped probe. However, if you can't do this with a great deal of care just leave it(them) attached. Bad eggs will rot for a time then involute (dry up) and very rarely affect adjacent good eggs. Otherwise follow jyohe rec's of 89F and a bit higher humidity.
Scott J. Michaels DVM