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Question about beaded's egg appearence

marcantony Apr 22, 2004 04:43 PM

This is my first year breeding BD's, although I have several years experience with corn snakes. My female beardie just laid 18 eggs this afternoon. Almost all of them look as though they have indendations, with very thin walls. I'm used to corn snake eggs that come out fairly plump, with a "leathery" feel to them. The eggs were laid in wet sand, and they were removed to be put in the incubator within 1 hour of being laid. The color looks good, bright white, but almost all of them look as though they are, for lack of a better term, saggy. I have them in vermiculite, at around 84F now. Is this how Bearded eggs are supposed to look? I'm particularly interested in people who have had both bearded and corn eggs, so they can give me their inpressions of any differences in appearences between the two.
Thanks for your input.

Replies (2)

marcantony Apr 22, 2004 04:45 PM

mit.

dragonsbynature Apr 22, 2004 04:51 PM

Sunken eggs are usually a sign of infertile eggs. Fertile eggs are normally rather firm, just like kingsnake eggs.. just smaller of course.

brandon
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Dragons by Nature

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