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bloodred-eggs what do you mean?

camus

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my bloodred laid eggs today. its the first clutch of her here (bought her last year). what i know is,that the eggs she laid before were terrible small too but ok. for me they look like slug.
what do you mean?????

rgds

camus
 

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Those look like slugs (unfertlized eggs) but I can't tell for sure from the picture. Fertlized eggs will be dry to the touch within about 10 minutes from being layed. Slugs will stay kind of slimy.
 
Yeah... those look like slugs to me too... Sounds like whatever male you paired her with didn't do the job...

-Kat
 
Sorry...

...but they look like infertile eggs to me as well. I had a snake lay infertile eggs on her second clutch last year, and they looked a lot like those eggs of yours.
 
thx for answers
i know definatly now, that the male bloodred is infertile. i hope my bloodredhet.pewter yearling will do his job in 2005.
this year i want to buy 1.2 normal from a bloodred+caramel/amberhet.amel project.
one extraquestion:
what do you expect l the bloodred-quality of

bloodred+normal het.bloodredcaramel/amber

will be?????
 
WHoa dont just throw um away try to incubate them. I had a snow corn lay about 30 eggs one year they were all slimey and definatlkey did not stick togehter they were horrible eggs i still incubated them and they ALL hatched into nice little snow corns (all but one i am afraid they took longer to hatch then expected and i thoght they were dud so i oped one ekk always remeber that and i will never do it again)
dont dismiis them till htey spoil - having siad that only incubate them if you can keep um seperate form other eggs if you think there dud
 
They don't look like slugs to me but it does look like a very poor photograph. What is the color of the eggs in real life? If they are anywhere from white to a light cream color I wouldn't give up on them. Slugs are usually elongated and yellow, almost yolk yellow and hard.
 
Slugs ?

Excuse me, but what does "slugs" mean ?
I only know the word slug from shotgun-shooting.
I'm german and I can't find a word that fits in the dictionary
:D
 
I agree with the people above. The eggs look questionable in the pic, but the pic looks like it has a yellow cast to the whole thing. If in doubt, incubate. If they cave in, turn orange, and sprout bangs (lol, grow mold), then chuck them. I've had awful looking eggs hatch out before as well. One looked normal in one half and soft, yellow, slimey on the other half and it did fine. Doesn't hurt to incubate them if you aren't sure.

That being said, I had a female last year that refused the male, refused, refused, then bred several times...she layed 18 slugs. This year to the same male (left him in with her), she layed 15 good eggs. I'd hate to count your bloodred out too early if it was some other problem other than fertility.

Heh, that being said, if I had the choice between using a bloodred or a blood het pewter, I'd go with the blood het pewter.

:p :D :p
 
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