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Old 03-29-2004, 04:56 PM   #1
Jeremy Letkey
Got Eggs???

I wanted to know how everybody tracts and labels their eggs. Currently I use a tupperware container for each female I have laying. I lable the front with the females name and description. I then label the top over the eggs with the # of eggs laid, lay date and expected hatch date. I estimate using 45 days. This is just to remind me to start checking around that time. I also place a post it note on the front of each laying females enclousre with the lay date of each set of eggs. This helps remind me to start checking the lay boxes better when the next clutch should be coming. This has worked for me in the past. I had 5 females laying last year. This year I have 15 now and in a couple more weeks 5 more. I want to be as thourogh as possible. I am trying to use excel to make a chart for each female. When they are introduced to the male, when they are visually gravid, when they lay each time, and the results of the egg such as hatch date or time the egg collapses. As well as a description of the hatchling. If anybody would like to share their methods it would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has a chart that they currently use I would like to hear about it. Thanks for your time. I am including a pic of the egg containers that I use and a pic of my incubator.

 
Old 03-29-2004, 06:28 PM   #2
Golden Gate Geckos
pretty much the same...

I label mine using a Sharpie on a piece of masking tape on the top of each clutch in a deli cup, and arrange them by hatch due date. At 80-82 degree incubation temperatures, I use a due date of 54 days, and for the boys at 88-90 degrees, I use 39 days. When the eggs hatch, I write the hatch date on the tape, and use it as the label for the shoe box in the rack. That date is what I use as their ID#s.

I keep a chart listing all of my females where I keep track of each individual's clutches laid, dates, # males/females incubated, and weights. I made up an Excel chart where I plot all of this data, and turn it into a graph so I can watch trends, get average time between clutches, incubation durations, percentages for hatch success rates, and body weights.

 

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