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I have 4 females that are gravid and have been laying fertile eggs every three weeks. I use Albey's method of incubation and the temp is set at 83 degrees. Although I feel like I am doing everything correctly, many of my eggs have started out yellow looking, after a few days they begin looking pink, then after about a week and a half they mold very quickly and begin to ooz and smell very bad. I've opened one of these bad eggs and it smells horible and looks green. I'm not sure if these eggs were just infertile to begin with or the embryo dies and the egg molds. The temp stays stable and I have four eggs incubating under the same conditions that are 49 days old and look like they will hatch any day now. I can't understand why these four eggs are doing so well, but the rest have turned out badly. Does it sound like something I'm doing wrong or is it the eggs that are bad to begin with? Thanks for reading, and any help or advice is much appreciated!

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. It sounds like they are just laying infertile eggs. You can try suppplementing them with more? calcium etc, but it may just be your females. Is this their first year breeding? Some of mine are laying infertile eggs hit and miss, for example.. 1 clutch infertile, 1 clutch fertile. Today as a matter of fact, my carrottail female.. I know she's laying good eggs, because 3 of them have hatched. But out of the first 2 eggs, 1 hatched, 1 didn't (I cut it open a few days after the first hatched.. it was a green mess), and this last clutch she layed this morning (5th this season).. 1 was good, 1 was an oozing mess. Go figure? I don't know, I'm new to this, this is my first season breeding, but unless you aren't supplementing mom, leaving dad in long enough, or keeping parents conditions good.. I think it's just the females. Don't get disappointed though! You said there are fertiles.... Just wait until the babies hatch!!!