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YeeHaw! Beating the Odds is Great!

Susan

Susan

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Honey Bear laid a second clutch for me (normal het butter bloodred X Sugar Bear, my hypo het caramel bloodred), but there were only 4 fertile eggs. One went moldy about half-way through incubation and was beyond any hope. The remaining three looked good to the end. The first hatchling pipped on schedule and exited the egg 2 days later. A pretty little normal female. By this time, I had expected the other 2 eggs to have at least pipped, but I gave them one more day. Still nothing so I gently opened the first...and got a whiff of "bad egg". Sure enough, the hatchling had died during incubation, but late enough for me to see that it was at least a bloodred. DANG! I gently opened the second, fearing the worst, but inside, I found a live hatchling. I went no further and gave it some time to hatch on it's own. When I came home late last night, this is what I found sitting on top of the moss...(and it's a female)...
 
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Guess it was too much to ask Murphy for a diffuse butter (but that would just be greedy of ya ;))

Congrats! :cheers:
 
Wow, congratulations! That was lucky!

I was reading about lizard eggs last night, and the authors were speculating that the eggs that contain fully-formed but DIE hatchlings could have been caused by a situation in which higher incubation temps cause increasing metabolism and higher oxygen requirements of the late-stage embryo which may exceed the amount of oxygen diffusing through the shell. (So they lower the temp a couple degrees if they see egg collapse and no hatching in 36 hours)

I wonder if that would apply to snakes. Just a thought.

Nanci
 
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