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This is my first year breeding corns. My clutch began hatching very near the date I predicted (last Friday, 7/8) but the clutch has not finished hatching yet. There are still 2 eggs, which are pipped & appear to have live snows inside, still unhatched. How long will it take them to emerge & is it normal for a clutch to take over a week to fully hatch?
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2.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken, Jack Skellington & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
0.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snake Jasmine
1.3 Leopard Geckos:Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1 Pacman Frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad
1.1.3 Firebelly Newts:Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Olivia Newton John & Thandie Newton
1.1 Cats Gus & Mena

Harvard Law of Animal Behavior: Under perfectly controlled conditions, animals do as they d*mn well please!

In other words, those babies will come out when they are ready. A week after the first to cut the egg is pretty long but I can't reccommend anything to hurry them up. Good luck.

Paul Hollander

Thanks. To correct: they were all manually pipped about 24 hours after the first, because none of the sibs had yet joined the first.
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www.geocities.com/squippyscritters
2.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken, Jack Skellington & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
0.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snake Jasmine
1.3 Leopard Geckos:Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1 Pacman Frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad
1.1.3 Firebelly Newts:Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Olivia Newton John & Thandie Newton
1.1 Cats Gus & Mena