This year or wait?

[UKCryptid]

Thanks Turner, but there are still 6 or 7 eggs in there. I got to help deliver a human baby during the midwifery part of nursing training, and this was a lot easier! I could feel the contractions rippling along Pearl's muscles. I've put her back in the rack in her moss-filled tub and hope she'll do the rest herself now

Excellent, now it's leave well alone and fingers crossed, good stuff.

 

[diamondlil]

Thankyou for the replies to my PM's, Susan and Vinman. I am obviously the cause of this delayed laying, because of asking my son to check on Pearl while I was away. I haven't told him, because I don't want him to feel bad about it, when he was only doing what I'd asked him to do.
To clarify, if Pearl hadn't been disturbed on the day she started laying, she would have produced the whole clutch then in normal fashion. This is totally due to my inexperience, and all I can do now is hope Pearl doesn't suffer through my mistake. I'm not going to breed her again this year, and am hoping she doesn't double-clutch on her own. Next year I'll know better.

 

[diamondlil]

A quick check has shown another egg laid, so now 9 good eggs and only 2 more to go.

 

[diamondlil]

Back from work this morning to find 1 egg laid, 1 last egg to go now.

 

[UKCryptid]

Back from work this morning to find 1 egg laid, 1 last egg to go now.

:cheers: :cheers:

 

[diamondlil]

Off to bed now, I'll update you if she produces the last egg while I sleep, Dave

 

[diamondlil]

Thank goodness, the last egg was laid today! Pearl is looking good, I'll feed her tonight

 

[tbtusk]

Congradulations!! The eggs look great and I'm glad the mothers doing well.

 

[diamondlil]

Thanks! I've had a lot of support through PM's, and now know that Pearl should have been left alone on her first couple of days of laying. Thankfully she doesn't seem to have suffered for my mistakes.

 

[Roy Munson]

Thanks! I've had a lot of support through PM's, and now know that Pearl should have been left alone on her first couple of days of laying. Thankfully she doesn't seem to have suffered for my mistakes.

Live and learn... All's well that ends well... and all that. I'm glad everything turned out well. :cheers:

 

[diamondlil]

Not as glad as I am, Dean. Maybe this thread will help someone else to avoid the same mistake. I'm thawing mice for the little 'uns tonight so I'll see if I can tempt her with a couple of fuzzies

 

[diamondlil]

Everyone ate their f/tmice,so I gave Pearl a nice f/k weaner

 

[UKCryptid]

Glad she's sorted.

 

[diamondlil]

thanks Dave! :cheers:

 

[desertanimal]

Hurray! You got lots more good eggs than I, but Pele laid all of hers (save the one slug that was laid days earlier) at once. I think I'll take my outcome over all the worry you had to endure! I'm glad everything ended well, and I'm glad you shared all of this. It certainly kept me from messing with Pele when I knew she was getting close, and I hope others will have learned the same lesson from your experience.

 

[diamondlil]

Thanks Stephanie. I don't mind at all sharing my mistakes here because it illustrated a point I didn't read anywhere at all,not in Kathy's manual, any care sheets about breeding I found on the net, or any of the threads I read on here.I simply didn't know that I could affect poor Pearl in this way. I feel damn stupid that I endangered my snake through ignorance.

 

[diamondlil]

On a brighter note, Pearl's had her post-lay shed about 1/2 hour ago,the incubator is holding steady at 81-82 and the mice have provided more than enough pinkies for anything that hatches (I think there around 100 each of 1g and 2g pinks in the freezer)

 

[UKCryptid]

Thanks Stephanie. I don't mind at all sharing my mistakes here because it illustrated a point I didn't read anywhere at all,not in Kathy's manual, any care sheets about breeding I found on the net, or any of the threads I read on here.I simply didn't know that I could affect poor Pearl in this way. I feel damn stupid that I endangered my snake through ignorance.

A mistake is only mistake if we fail to learn from it :santa:
My Anery girl seems to have picked up her appetite again now, was worrying me a wee bit for a while.

 

[diamondlil]

The last egg didn't dry up, it was smelly last night so I decided it was a slug and chucked it. So that's 10 good eggs, the first and last of the 12 being slugs. Seeing as Pearl and Slim weren't brumated, that's not too shabby!

 

[diamondlil]

I've candled some eggs quickly this morning, and could see veins in all 4 I looked at!