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Last night I did a thorough cleaning of my cresty enclosure and found eggs that were well-hidden up at the front of the laybox. I'd been glancing in the laybox but hadn't been pulling it out to do so and had not seen the eggs. The previous (first) egg-laying was on September 24, so I'm figuring these eggs are probably already 3-4 weeks old.

They've been in the laybox getting periodic misting when I mist the cage (but not deliberate attention to the laybox), and both are small and one is dented on top. Neither was discolored, cracked, or otherwise appeared harmed, but they are the size of freshly-laid eggs.

I went ahead and put them in a container with perlite and put them next to the other eggs, but is there any chance at all of these eggs hatching, do you think? I hate that I missed them.
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I think strangers things have happened.I read one post where a owner found a crestie egg that was thrown out in the waste to a compost pile in a green house with daytime temps of over 110 degrees for 5 days .God only knows what actual conditions disruptions and temps it was exposed too but it hatched.It costs you nothing to wait and see until the eggs turn nasty and collapse treat them as viable....

i had some texas horned lizard eggs ( 29) that were in desert like conditions for a decent period of time. all looked pretty bad but i picked out about 10 that looked the best and incubated them. all had dents in them. 7 of the 10 ended up " inflating" and looking perfectly normal and hatched.

yea, with the crested gecko eggs i just hatched for a friend, one originally had a bit of a dent in it. after a few days it filled out though and both the eggs hatched. unfortunately, im still lecturing her about keeping a closer eye for eggs. shes had quite a few clutches but the pair i hatched out for her are the only pair she has had hatch.

I will keep a closer eye on both the calendar and the lay box from now on. It's certainly encouraging that y'all know of "neglected" eggs which managed to hatch successfully, so I'm glad I decided to retrieve them and treat them as if they were freshly laid, just in case.
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