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my first clutch fertile eggs? dried out eggs?

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wally_allen

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ok I had to leave for a couple days and when I came back after 2 days I descovered my snake had laid a clutch as quick as i could I got them into the incubator i made but the eggs were dry and had a slight yellowish tint to them after i got them in i decided to use the wet papertowel method to rehydrate them before i did I was brushing a lil of the vermiculite away and touched one of the eggs it was very soft it wasn't stiff kinda squishy actually well kinda do u guys think there firtile or what?or did i just waste my money buyin the gear to set up a incubator? and if they were dry for a day or two would they be dead even if firtile?
 
ok there looking a lil better after i put a damp paper towel on em but there still soft and a slight like yellowish cream color
 
Picks will help the more experienced people if you can post them. You will know in a couple weeks by smell if any or all are bad.
Peace Paul
 
ok if ones bad what do i do with it cus all the eggs r stuck together do i just let it sit cus it seems to me that if i let one sit it will infect the rest so what should i do?
 
A pic would definately be helpful.

And I feel I need to let newbie breeders know that reptlie eggs are not hard like bird eggs. They are naturally soft and leathery...but not TOO soft if fertile. The more experienced breeders take this sort of info for granted and may forget that there may be someone out there that needs to know things like this. I brought a clutch of just hatching eggs into work with me a few years ago because everyone was curious (none of them had ever seen anything like it before) and one of my co-workers really had no idea that reptile eggs weren't like her birds' eggs! She also didn't know that snakes, depending on species, either lay eggs or have live births. (She's a year older than I am, and I'm almost 46.) Needless to say, I've since educated her...so much so that she's actually thinking of getting a corn snake in a year or two!
 
ok well it looks like there turning whiter but if ones bad what do i do with it cus all the eggs r stuck together do i just let it sit cus it seems to me that if i let one sit it will infect the rest so what should i do?


p.s. i'll work on getting a pic don't know if i'll be able to though....
 
If you have a bad one, just leave it in there with the good eggs. Don't try to cut it away or you may damage a good egg. Also, don't rotate the eggs from their original axis, you may drown the developing snake.

If you get a chance, go get Kathy Love's book.
 
A healthy egg is creamy white in color rather than refrigerator white. An infertile egg starts out a pale yellow color, not quite straw yellow, and tends to get darker orange after a few days. If I'm not certain that an egg is bad, I keep incubating it until I'm certain it's bad. That may take up to 100 days. :)

Dry is not equal to immediately dead. Once I was given a dozen bullsnake eggs. They were a couple of days old and had shriveled down to nearly half of original volume. I was still able to hatch two babies. I did not separate the eggs. Remember, in the wild, bad eggs and slugs are not separated from good eggs. And nobody is there to add water when needed and fuss over them. The eggs have to be tolerant of less than optimum conditions to hatch at all.

Good luck.
 
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