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How Eggs SMELL When hatching

What do pipping eggs smell like?

  • Peppermint or other Mint

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Green Bell Pepper

    Votes: 5 50.0%

  • Nothing

    Votes: 2 20.0%

  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 3 30.0%
  • Total voters
    10
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Thought I would see if anyone else had opinions on the smells of snakes hatching!

To me snake eggs smell minty when incubating, and then they smell like green peppers when pipping.
 
The smell while incubating probably has alot to do with the medium used...I use sphagnum moss so it's smell over-powers any smell the eggs might have.

While pipping, there is another, stronger smell, but I never really tried to compare it to anything else. To me, it's the smell of pipping eggs. The next time I cook or cut up green peppers, I'll try to compare it to the egg smell.
 
Since I use vermiculite which doesn't seem to have any sort of distinct smell, I tend to think it is the eggs smelling.
 
Ok...my eggs from a sunglow motley pairing are hatching. I have 3 out and two more pipped. And, it's definitely like green bell peppers. The smell is weak but it's there, and I can smell it on the snakes when I first pick them up.
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Old thread that was drug up from the past, but boy, what a funny one!!!

Green Peppers? Im going to have to try and remember this when i finally have eggs hatching...
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I've always thought that pre-hatch and pipping corn eggs smell like green peppers. :)
 
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