11 eggs laid overnight. The last egg has a little blood on it. Looks like it was the last one out and thankfully she did not have more eggs to hurt her even further...
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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
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Hatteras Outer Banks Kingsnake laid a clutch!!!...
sweet_pickle
May 09, 2005 05:33 AM
Replies (3)
guttersnacks
May 09, 2005 06:34 AM
You lucky B@st@rd!
Hehehehehe
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Tom
TCJ Herps
"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"
sweet_pickle
May 09, 2005 09:52 AM
It looks like the blood is around the edges of where the egg shell is "fused" together.
Has anyone seen this before? The more I look at it the more I think that it (the blood) does not have anything to do with the actual delivery of the eggs through the oviduct and out the vent.
Postulations and theories are encouraged...
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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com
peterjolles@eastcoastcolubrids.com
guttersnacks
May 09, 2005 02:19 PM
Ok, heres my postulation even though Im no eggspert.
Sorry, couldnt resist.
So, before an egg calcifies in the "womb without a view".....sorry again....it's probably transparent and encapsulated with blood vessels and such, maybe even just right at the spot where the embryo attaches itself to the egg wall. Maybe this became such an obtuse obstruction at the edge of the membrane that the calcium didnt form completely over it, and just formed around it instead.
But, what do I know, I poke myself in the nose with straws all the time.
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Tom
TCJ Herps
"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"
