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Are these eggs duds, or should I try to incubate?

That's so cool! I completely forgot about this thread - thanks for coming back to update it! Very cute little babies.
 
Yeah we are super stoked to be able to experience this! Not that we plan to do it again, but it's been fun seeing them emerge as little miracles! Now to find them good homes will be the next project.
 
Oh yeah duh, skipped that one in my head due to thinkin that was just a given haha! So I wait till after their first shed and then offer right?
 
I know nothing about how readily they will take pinky mice. But I'd definitely wait until after the first shed, and maybe even a week after.
 
I live close to LLL Reptile and Prehistoric Pets, so I may take a trip by one or the other and have them help me get them sexed and started on food if I have any trouble :)
 
I bet Doug Mong would know. DMong on here, I think. He just published the most beautiful milksnake book- which I could not quite afford yet- but it's my next splurge-y herp book that I want.
 
I've produced a few clutches of milks over the years. My default is to deli with a live newborn pink if I have access to them. If that doesn't work, employ the usual corn snake tricks. Good luck!
 
Thanks Chip. Have the two that have hatched in deli's already with some aspen and folded paper towel hides with a gatorade bottle cap for a water dish. Still waiting on the last two as they seem to like peeking out and going back in their egg hides ha! Figured I would try f/t pinks first just to see if I can get lucky from the get go. But if that's a no go, then trick time it will be as you said :)
 
My best two tricks for corns are boiled, and then Ivory scented. I have no idea what works for milksnakes, though. But I'd try live, first, I think. They are such hunters. Then maybe some type of lizard scenting, if boiled and dish soap didn't work???
 
Except for black milks, I always had to get a mouse colony going at milk hatching time. They are Lampropeltis, but most of them sure don't have the feeding response of kings! In the dark, in a deli, with an appropriate sized live pink was what I've had the best luck with. Also, no water or substrate in the feeding deli. You want the baby wandering and running into the pink over and over, not hiding and holding still on the other side of the container. Try a light boil or braining if frozen is all you have, but I'd start hunting some live pinks -or better yet a very pregnant mouse. You're gonna need them small!
 
Yeah that's true, I will clear the delis out when we try feeding them, or use different ones altogether.
 
If I could drive I would totally come by and take one of those beauties off your hands! ;)

Good luck getting them started! Baby anything is always a great experience!
 
Definitely, but I could never convince my parents to drive out to my aunts house for a snake ._.
 
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