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Egg incubating containers - 2009

Rich Z

Rich Z

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I did a short video of the egg incubating containers on my racks the other day. When you view it, notice all the shoe boxes with orange dots on them. Those are clutches that have hatched within the past 10 days and will need to be set up over the next several days. I have found it takes around 10 days after the first one to pip, before all of them have had their post hatching shed and be ready to set up and offer food.

BTW, since I took this video, I put orange dots on about 30 more containers..... :( Yup, getting REAL deep into my busy season now... And my back starts hurting a whole lot sooner than it did last year. This is going to be a LONG several months ahead of me....

 
That looks like alot of work. I doubt I'll have that many clutches in my whole life let alone one season. Good Luck. ;)
 
Yeah...... I'm starting to get the butterflies in my stomach already from the workload I see when I look at all those orange dots. I get this way every year, but even knowing that, it doesn't make it seem any easier this year. I feel like I need to split into three people because off all the work and everything needs to be done first.
 
RobbiesCornField said:
If I could afford the gas every day, I would TOTALLY drive over there and help you. Every day. Seriously.
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Man, I would REALLY appreciate the help, but you are talking about 8 hours on the road back and forth. I'd be concerned that you would get exhausted driving all that time and kill yourself. I wouldn't want your blood on my hands....

But thanks for the thought.
 
I was going to say almost the same thing - if I lived closer I would be willing to help out every day as well.
 
WOW! :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:
I bet thats more work than I can imagine!
 
Wow Rich, just wow. Seeing this makes me appreciate your business all the more. I couldn't ever imagine having to work with that many eggs and hatchlings. It would be a dream to SEE all of them, but to actually be the only one doing the work, wow Rich, you're like superman. Well, at least you have something really good to look and work forward to towards the end of the season. =) Hang in there Rich.
 
I have the sound on my computer muted so I could load up a video and not listen to it. The radio is playing "I can see for miles and miles...." It seems appropriate!!
 
Wow, Rich. I need to tell my field season to hurry up and end so I can help you out! I will probably be back in town the beginning of August - I will definitely be letting you know!

What a workload!
 
Wow Rich, That is a lot of work ahead!! I have a friend who is a well established snake breeder. Ball, Blood pythons, Hognoses, and basically a full menu of colubrids, including Scaleless.
When I go to his place it amazes me at the amount of egg containers he has this time of year. Luckily he is a younger man, and has help from his wife, sister in law, mom, ect.
When others watch your video in awe, as I do, They really don't understand it til your standing in a room such as that. And what is really cool is to be there when the pipping gets going in full swing.!! lol!!
And the funny thing with my friend is, he doesn't produce corn snakes (but did years ago). He buys em from me! :laugh:
 
Hey Rich, that is a beautiful set up that you have. Very Impressive! I know it's a lot of work that you have ahead. I just hope everything goes smoothly for you! I think, we all think, you deserve it! ;)

Wayne
 
not my dream come true but very cool... I do understand the work though... yikes. Wish I wasn't teaching summerschool... I would fly over and stay for a week or two... help the push!
 
Drizzt80 said:
Aaaah, c'mon! Suck it up buttercup!! :sidestep:

Thanks for sharing the video. I always recall the fisheye picture you took several years ago of all your egg boxes.
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7483

D80
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Yeah, the rack in the center of that pic was built "exclusively" for egg incubating containers. Well, this year, because I had an adult sale fall through, it held a bunch of snakes that needed to be brumated, since that is one of the rooms that gets chilled down in the Winter months. So the eggs are in another room entirely. Kind of throwing me off the beam a bit, as I got used to the eggs being in another room. Also explains why a couple went a bit dry on me, as I knew the sensitive spots on that original rack to check on.

I keep catching myself thinking, "well next year, I'll do it the other way...." Then I realize, there won't BE a next year doing this.

Fortunately orders are coming along nicely and I have a guy all lined up to take anything I want to bulk out as soon as it's ready to ship. I'm hoping that I will be sold out completely of babies not long after the Daytona Beach show in August. I'm really only holding back enough stuff to take to that show, but there are going to be a few straggler clutches hatching out even at that late date. Matter of fact, I need to edit my shopping cart program, because there is a lot of stuff listed there that I am not even going to be setting up to sell at retail. If it doesn't sell right out of the egg as wholesale, then I'm just not going to bother setting them up and getting them feeding. I've just had too many years of setting up $50 animals that I could have sold for bulk at $10 each right out of the egg, then working with them for 6 months, cleaning containers and feeding them every week, to then sell them to a wholesaler for just $25 each. Just not worth that $15 a head to work with them for that long.

Arghhh... Guess I need to get over to the salt mines. Trying to catch up with emails and my web stuff, and here it is already close to 1pm....
 
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