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Welp here they are. 11 perfect large eggs, no duds.

They look spot on, am really pleased for you and hope they all do ok.
Now a question, posted it on the old 'general' forum and got no reply so I was hoping someone could help me here.
My ratsnake laid 16 eggs a week last Wednesday and although some are pure white like the ones in your pictures, a few are a sort of brown in colour (although they were white when they were laid). Is this something I should be worrying about?

Thanks a bunch. As for the spots on your eggs, could it be mold? Mold is pretty common on eggs, so its nothing to super panic about, although if really bad or left unchecked it can spoil them. You can usually wipe mold off. Only other thing I can think of is them possibly going bad, but i'm no expert on the matter. I've only ever bred corns, and this is my first clutch of beauties..

Is that a normal, or are you going to have albino-hets?

TC

Normal Taiwan.. My albino is Chinese. I'm not a huge fan of crossing, although the idea did cross my mind. I think it'd be nice to put that albino gene into some taiwans, and keep breeding the gene back into taiwans, so you eventually get a pure taiwan looking and sized albino. I think they'd be much prettier. But that'd be polluting a group of taiwans...

Although I don't keep the Taiwans, I don't like crossing species or subspecies, except I would do that in corns (as it is so commonplace). I have a pair of het. for calico, Chinese stripe-tails that have been breeding this spring. I was just feeding the female and she is getting really robust. I think I'm going to find out if they are truly hets TC.

I dont have any but I have seen the calico taeniura taeniura in person and they are super nice! Good luck with that pair this year. Randy W.

That is what I call a perfect looking clutch the first time. Happy for you Kestrel! Randy W.

Great pics congrats. Rick