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Twenty-two days after shedding first female produced 13 eggs last night. The order of arrival starts in the NW corner and goes down each column. You should be able to distinguish the seven good eggs from the six bad. Just hours after deposition fertile eggs swell up and become firm. Even thought they have some granulation on the surface, the infertile eggs are smaller, mis-shapen, and off color. I'll keep them all for a week or so to be sure. The mother is about seven ft. long and is here on a breeding loan. She produced eight eggs that led to five hatchlings last year. Second Eastern female has shed and is due to lay in about two weeks. She's a much younger snake and bred exclusively with another male. She first produced eggs two years ago and then skipped last year.

Congrats on the eggs, Steve. That's a great picture to show the fertile and infertile eggs. Maybe we can post that on indigosnakes.com to show other breeders the difference between the two as it seems most couperi clutches contain a significant # of infertile eggs.
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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

That clutch looks very similar to the one I got, except larger. I got 10 eggs with 6 good, 1 maybe, 3 sours. I took the bad ones out today and they were already developing a bad smell to them. I wish I knew someone with a monitor lizard so the eggs could go to a good cause

Doug T

Doug
Don't forget the babies love pinkies dipped in the eggs.

Congrats Steve!!!!

At least now I'll get to see what Eastern eggs look like this year.

Bob

looks to me like you have 7 good ones there...but I'm sure you know which they are!

I forgot if you already told me, do you have a TX ready to lay?
Mine should go any day now.

Texas indigo is due to lay yesterday. Best to us all. Virgil, are you expecting Texas eggs again?

I'd say 6 will be good..Good Luck!!
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Carl W Gossett
Garage Door Herps
Monument,Colorado...northern territory of the Great Republic of Texas