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than knowing you have the genetics and not seeing them hatch.

I can only hope to see these hatch with the next clutch, but i am not too hopeful.

Enjoy, and if anybody for whatever reason wants these full terms, i will ship them to them.

andrew

One of them did hatch, but I didn't think any of them would. These are red ackies.

The one that did is normal.

The clutch got up to 110 when the the light in the closet (where I keep the incubator) was left on while we were out of town (there is now no light in that closet, lol).

I have more eggs ready to hatch (that haven't seen high temps) next month.

So was this striping temp induced (but what about the normal ackie?).

If there was two (and no, the eggs were not next to each other in the container), I have hope I will see it again.

SO cross your fingers for next clutch. I will keep everybody up to date.

cheers, andrew

Sorry for saying "know" about genetics. I was tired. There is something that leads me to believe it might be though. I will disclose that if I hatch out stripes.

Also, I threw away about half and then after I did that I decided to keep a few (hence the one that hatched and these full terms). I did that because they were completely flat (pancake flat)when I got home from being out of town. So throwing them away is something I won't do again.

cheers,

andrew

You overheated the eggs, then severely dehydrated them on top of that. And you think this is genetics?????????? I think I will laugh a lot. Please sir, use some common sense.

Even if you hatched striped ackies without any reasons to cause it. You would have to prove its genetic, thru breeding them. Again that is only common sense.

I understand its normal to hope for something, but please, you still have to prove any pattern abnormally is genetic.

I believe, Alan Repashy, hatched a striped ackie many years ago, but it died. I wonder why? Good luck FR

That is why I re-posted and said sorry i was tired.

However, a lot of people have overheated eggs only to see either no hatchlings at all or normal looking full terms.

You are correct though frank, i would have to prove it out.

I think no one doubts that from the looks of those full terms that if it was not temp determined it would be a very very cool project. But again, i don't know if temp played a role in their pattern.

it would look like the flag without the stars, lol.

cheers, andrew

Sorry you lost them. What a bummer when something like the lights being left on happens. I learned with my first leos that no matter how bad things look, unless the egg stinks and rots, I'm not throwing one out. Had an egg that never grew and was brittle and literally crushed when I touched it. Never got around to throwing it out. It hatched into a beautiful, although small leo that has since grown to match it's hatch mate. Rule Number One in my book...NEVER throw out an egg. LOL

The stripes are intriguing. Hope to hear more about your project as it evolves.

Leslie

Odd patterns have been linked to temperatures. Whether this be too cool too hot, or any other extreme variant in incubation.

However if you breed them again and see the stripes on live babies, breed the striped babies and make more, then you may have something. But as of right now since you know the temps went out of whack I would say thats what caused it.