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Hatching Questions...

Do you open your eggs when pipping starts?

  • Yes, as soon as the first "pip" is noticed.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, but I wait a day or two.

    Votes: 7 46.7%

  • No, never, too dangerous/unneccesary.

    Votes: 8 53.3%
  • Total voters
    15
J_Daniels

J_Daniels

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My little clutch started hatching yesterday!!! Woo-hoo, the longest 63 days of my life are over!

Anyway, the point of this is to ask all of you guys, once pipping starts, do you slit open the remaining eggs? If so, how long do you wait? And most importantly, how in the heck do you do it without cutting the baby inside?

Also, how long do you guys wait to remove babies that have completely left the egg from the hatching box?

I really need help here, I don't want to lose any of my little ones.

Thanks!
Jason
 
Last year I was hatching kingsnakes, and as soon as they left the egg, or as soon as it was noticed that they had left the egg, we moved them into their individual cages. When this year's crop hatches out, that is my plan.... extra-large deli-cups (9 3/4 inches in diameter I think) with damp paper towel substrate and a water dish, and a record card for keeping track of who the snakes are (parents), what the baby's phenotype is, and when they feed and shed.

OOOH ... I just can't WAIT.

Here I am, hoping they'll go exactly 65 days though. (I want them to hatch the first day of my 3 week vacation)! :)
 
I'm a bit harsh when it comes to eggs. My view is that if a hatchling isn't strong enough to break out of the egg the way nature intended, then it probably shouldn't hatch.

In 2003 I had one clutch of twenty-four eggs that took 17 days between the first and last eggs hatching. All of the hatchlings emerged without help and were healthy.

Patience is a virtue. My advice would be: grit your teeth and wait to see what happens.
 
that´s a question you hardly can answer with yes or no. it always depends on what´s going on and what experiences you have in the different year. (like: are all eggs in the same cage, incubator, why didn´t they hatch out, ....) normally i don´t touch the eggs and let hatch them out alone. this year i lost a few ones from the first 3 clutches, recognized, that all were fully developed unable to slit the eggs. so i decided to open the eggs when i see the first pipped. now i do some variation, opening some immidiatly, some 12h, 24h, 48h, 72h later, to find out how far i can go.

rgds

camus
 
How do you go about opening the egg? I mean, without cutting the snake? And also, how do you know where to cut, so that you miss the head but the slit is close enough for the snake to find it?

I don't know, I don't think I'll be doing this, at least not this year, because now 48 hours after the first pip I have 4 out of 6 snakes out. I'm just curious how people go about doing it, that's all.

Thanks!
Jason
 
i´m using a small nail-scissors and tweezers. if you act carefully you will never hurt one.

rgds

camus

look like that then
 

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