2nd clutch goo.....little graphic.

[El Jefe]

So....one of my females has been putting the weight on just great. She was getting fat and I thought she was going to give me a 2nd clutch. Well...she did...but not exactly of eggs. Weird stuff...didn't know that could come out of a corn!

 

[MegF.]

Doesn't look bloody enough to be a prolapse unless it's been in there a while. How is the female now? Never seen anything like that!

 

[El Jefe]

Female appears fine. She actually at a hopper. I think it is all bad egg goo...but not 100% certain.

 

[MegF.]

Weird stuff, that's for sure! Have you opened any of the sacks? Are they one long tube or is there segments. It's hard to tell in the picture.

 

[Eriathiel]

Wow what a weird thing. I wonder what it is! Hmmm.... aliens maybe! Glad to hear that the female seems ok! Hopefully she will stay that way!

 

[MegF.]

If little claws start poking out....RUN!!!

 

[Mrs InsaneOne]

If little claws start poking out....RUN!!!

*spews coffee all over the screen* Great, my first cup of coffee in two years and you had to make me spit out half the cup. :laugh:

To me it looks like a bunch of under-developed eggs that didn't fully separate or form. Or, maybe she started to reabsorb the eggs and dropped them before they could be fully absorbed.

Are you thinking about slitting a portion of that... thing... to see what is in there?


Jenn

 

[MegF.]

I'm trying to save your life Jenn! You know how caffeine affects you! Slit it....we'll call the gov't. if we don't hear from you again Jeff....

 

[Fizzlefry22]

Wow...that's really wierd. The larger mass looks like a clump of under-developed eggs. The stringy-tube-looking mass looks like she decided not to have any more eggs and spit her uterous out..
What ever it is, I'm glad that she's doing ok! :cheers:

 

[mbdorfer]

To me it looks like a bunch of under-developed eggs that didn't fully separate or form. Or, maybe she started to reabsorb the eggs and dropped them before they could be fully absorbed.

Sounds plausible to me as well. If the snake is eating after passing that mess,
I would think it's not an issue.

 

[susang]

Out of some gooey curiousity, how big is this goo? I really appreciate when people post these types of occurances, very educational. thanks, susan

 

[Mrs InsaneOne]

I'm trying to save your life Jenn! You know how caffeine affects you! Slit it....we'll call the gov't. if we don't hear from you again Jeff....

:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :bang:

 

[[Bad.Luck.Bear]]

Hmm, I know chickens, ducks and some other egg laying species can lay eggs without them being fertile. I would think that might be it but it seems strange that it would happen now and not in any other corn before this. It probably is just under-developed eggs. slit it open I'm going crazy wanting to know whats in it.

 

[Joejr14]

Hmm, I know chickens, ducks and some other egg laying species can lay eggs without them being fertile. I would think that might be it but it seems strange that it would happen now and not in any other corn before this. It probably is just under-developed eggs. slit it open I'm going crazy wanting to know whats in it.

Corns lay clutches of completely unfertilized eggs all the time. In fact, some females will do so without ever being introduced with a male...ever. So this isn't a first by any means.

 

[KJUN]

I had a female two years ago prolapse an oviduct. My vet (it's my wife) was at a work-related conference in Spain or France, so I couldn't get with her immediately. It was prolapsed out about 10". I sent my wife an email, and decided I was going to do pretty much what I knew she was going to tell me to do THAT evening if she hadn't got back to me yet. She did, and I went out to take care of the situation. (Oh, relax - I wasn't going to "give her the pink juice.")

Here is the kicker, though. She had lost the prolapsed oviduct on her own. She looked normal. There was NO way she could have brought it back internal, so I dug around in the wet sphagnum she was in (she prolapsed after laying her eggs) and look HARD. I found the oviduct. It just looked like a thin piece of tissue, but it was so covered in sphagnum moss at this point that I would have NEVER seen it if I wouldn't have looked good. It made me wonder how often this happens and a keeper never even notices. If I would have waited another 36 hours to collect the eggs, I would have never known.

Anyway, I didn't breed her last year, but she ovulated in the other side this year. I got REAL curious. I threw a male in with her, they bred, and she dropped slugs over a period of ~10 days after her following shed. No re-breeding, but she tried to double clutch recently. She dropped 3 or 4 slugs and a mass exactly like you posted. Not as much of it, but exactly like that. Old female, but I'm pretty sure the remaining oviduct just wasn't working correctly. Mine was pretty gelatinous - no obvious yolk, albumin, or fertilize "spot." Of course, EVERYTHING she produced this year were slugs.

Obviously, this may be unrelated to what you found.
KJ

 

[Eriathiel]

*Starts chanting* Slit it open, Slit it open, Slit it open!
We want to see whats inside!

 

[susang]

*Starts chanting* Slit it open, Slit it open, Slit it open!
We want to see whats inside!

I'm chanting with you and how big is this?????

 

[Kilala]

*Starts chanting* Slit it open, Slit it open, Slit it open!
We want to see whats inside!

yes! please show us!

 

[[Bad.Luck.Bear]]

Corns lay clutches of completely unfertilized eggs all the time. In fact, some females will do so without ever being introduced with a male...ever. So this isn't a first by any means.

I see well this is a complete first to me. I haven't heard anything like this before but then again I'm just a beginner.

 

[El Jefe]

I cut the thing open and it was merely goo like stuff.....similar to what I have found in slugs. The big one in the middle was about 3 inches. Sorry...no aliens in this batch.