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Handling Eggs

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Colleen

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Hi all! We are breeding for the first time this year and I am of course rereading my manual and this site again~ I think I have everything down pretty well but I do have one question that I can't seem to find an answear to.........

How long after the eggs are laid can they be handled and placed?

I know that the babies will drown if the top of the egg isn't kept facing up, but surely there is a period of time right after they are laid that is safe for moving them to the egg box.

Also if they are in a cluster (from what I have read they often are) how do I position them so that they all remain just right?

:) We're so excited! I want everything to go well!

Thanks Colleen
 
Colleen,

I know how you feel. When I had my first eggs I had thousand questions but no internet to fullfill my info needs..;-) I handle eggs when ever I want. Good eggs can handle quite a bit of stuff. Corn eggs are pretty small and delicate compared to most other snake eggs so I would urge you not to replace them much. But digging them up to move to new container will not hurt if you do it carefull.

In 2000 I bred my Burmese pythons:

http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/mpoots/breeding.htm

I was so excited with these eggs. I handled them almost every day (yeah I am nuts). I dropped one from two foot high, I sprayed on them with water directly and nothing stopped them from hatching. I lost a few eggs because I had them on too much hydrated substrate. That really kills eggs.

Marcel
 
Hey Colleen, long time no see. How is your son?
The eggs can be taken as soon as you like. I wouldn't leave them in there for more than 24 hours. If they are stuck in a clump I just put them in a deep bowl of sphangum moss exactly how the clump looked when I found it. Sometimes you can get some loose to even the clump up a bit. But in this early stage I don't think the embryo inside has decided which way is up yet. I think the damage comes from turning them later. Once you get them in the incubator, mark the top of them so you can put them back right side up.
 
thanks

I was wondering about that too.

What can you use that's safe to mark the eggs?

BMM
 
A normal graphite pencil is fine I just press lightly and go over it a couple of times.
 
why

why would you need to mark them?? put them in a box with wet vermicullite and dont handle them after that...spray them...make sure its warm an humid enough and dond handle them...unless there are hairs growing on them:) then you need to clean them....and the vermicullite too...so...make a new box...end clean the eggs one by one making sure you hold the eggs in the same position....
but if thats happening there is something wrong with the tempature or humidity...
oh and you can move the eggs to the vermicullite as soon as you want...even if it takes the snake too long to ley her eggs you can take them away from her...since a snake goes in some sort off trance when laying she wont even notice..:)

maris
 
marking

Can have like a dozen uses??? Of course I want to mark. If something terrible happens I want to know what way the eggs were laid....maybe mark questionable eggs differently, maybe if people only have one "incubator" and need to place two different clutches together. mark one not the other? Just a lot of reaosns! :)

bmm
 
Thanks so much for the info. I really am grateful for having this site and the experience of the people on it. We will be watching her really close I'm sure so we'll get them moved and arranged ASAP cause I'm going to be too nervous to move them again unless I have to.

Thank you also for remembering my son! He is doing alot better but still not as well as before. His DR. thinks it's because he's growing so fast and being almost 13 now his chemistry is in chaos too. I just keep praying that the siezures will continue to gradually become shorter, less intense and further apart, because the med. (Diastat) he takes that used to stop them within minutes is becoming less and less affective the more he has to use it. His last one on Wed. lasted 35 min. I'm so glad we have the snakes and this breeding project for him to focus on. He is really excited.......OK so am I!:D

:cool: Thanks again! Colleen
 
One more thing

Colleen,

One more thing. I once had large female drop more than 20 eggs. (29 I believe it was). She took more than 12 hours to do it. I got restless and started to take away the eggs. She was obviously disturbed by that since she retained one egg. I did not notive untill a few weeks later the egg was showing close to the vent. Eggs continue to grow inside the snake which can cause a lot of damage. I massaged the egg out but she died nine weeks later.. Ever since then I let the eggs with the snake untill she is finished.

Marcel
 
Ouch! Thanks for the heads up!

I will definately not bother her till she's done. How can I know for sure that she is finished? Will she start moving more or leave the box? Oh boy one more thing to mess up:rolleyes: I think my own labor and delivery wasn't this nerve racking!:D


Thank you

Colleen
 
Re: Ouch! Thanks for the heads up!

Colleen said:
I will definately not bother her till she's done. How can I know for sure that she is finished? :D
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She will be laying around the eggs or in a different corner of the cage. You will see that she looks all thin. Don't worry you will notice.

Marcel
 
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