rosecat
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this is sort of in continuation of this thread http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70810
anyhow this is from the clutch of 16 with 3 remaining good eggs left. They first started pipping on this past Wed, the 2nd egg to have any "action" was the first hatchling out and is what i'm pretty certain is a normal with partial zig-zag (featured in the above thread). so I was talking to stephen tonight and he said that it takes 24 hrs from when they slit to sticking a nose out (or are completely out) if its more than that it is probably dead or something is wrong. So on his advice and with directions i cut open egg #1 (the one that slit itselef on Wed) ... it indeed was dead, lots of yoke left, some skin attached to the egg. Probably had died soon after making some slits.
I decided after consultation to also cut into the 3rd and last egg. I had first noted slitting in it last night, and following the 24 hr rule decided to check on it. Unfortunately this one was also dead, and had quite a bit of yoke still.
The good and the bad is that these 2 hatchlings have i believe proven out probably the more coveted of the 2 ph, sunkissed. And one is a motley ..... anyhow here's some pics. Once the living hatchling has shed I'll know for sure if its normal, and if it is i will sit with my belief that these DIE are sunkissed and sunkissed mot. Anyhow here's some pics of the DIE.
anyhow this is from the clutch of 16 with 3 remaining good eggs left. They first started pipping on this past Wed, the 2nd egg to have any "action" was the first hatchling out and is what i'm pretty certain is a normal with partial zig-zag (featured in the above thread). so I was talking to stephen tonight and he said that it takes 24 hrs from when they slit to sticking a nose out (or are completely out) if its more than that it is probably dead or something is wrong. So on his advice and with directions i cut open egg #1 (the one that slit itselef on Wed) ... it indeed was dead, lots of yoke left, some skin attached to the egg. Probably had died soon after making some slits.
I decided after consultation to also cut into the 3rd and last egg. I had first noted slitting in it last night, and following the 24 hr rule decided to check on it. Unfortunately this one was also dead, and had quite a bit of yoke still.
The good and the bad is that these 2 hatchlings have i believe proven out probably the more coveted of the 2 ph, sunkissed. And one is a motley ..... anyhow here's some pics. Once the living hatchling has shed I'll know for sure if its normal, and if it is i will sit with my belief that these DIE are sunkissed and sunkissed mot. Anyhow here's some pics of the DIE.
