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Have any breeders noticed a relevance with dragon orientation in the egg as to the way they come out?
Normally I turned the containers in the incubator quite frequently to make sure they all got pretty even heating throughout the incubation. I had noticed before where quite a few would come out from the same side of the egg.

Well, this clutch I had turned the container a couple times but only a few and I haven't for at least 3 weeks.
Now look at this.
So far,, all of them are coming out on the same side.
I realize, it's only 8 out of 24 and it's still early to tell if they will all come out the same way but is there a connection? Temp. or possibly,, what's the word I'm looking for..you know, North / south ???
Not that it matters or that I'll ever do anything with this info, just thought it was neat. LOL

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direction the babies hear noise in. Once the first one starts hatching, the others hear them and will start turning in that direction to get out. Eggs that are late hatching you can encourage to hatch by making a scratching noice near it.

Is the direction they are hatching toward where the lid closes?

In the wild, bearded dragons have been observed were one hatches and all the others do within a few hours thought to be from the first ones struggling to climb over the others... and you know how tight packed down that soil is? how do the babies know which way is up? Sure the others just follow the earlier siblings, but how did the first ones know which was up????? they never dig out sideways, always straight up, sometimes as much as a foot!

no, the lid to the incubator opens strait up and the same for the container they are in.
Hmmmm.?????

to move those last few days, seems like a pretty tight fit by the time they do hatch. A neighbor who hatches about 200 a year said that his turn toward the area that he is always moving the water tub in and out of

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