early hatching

my first clutch (of this year) pipped early yesterday . I was a bit surprised, as I wasn't expecting to see those little heads for at least another week. they are jc/diamond Xs (from a 3/4 diamond x jc/diamond), and they were only at 47 days. I thought 55-60 days was the norm. when I get home this morning, that group should be out of their eggs & ready for inspection. I do have a question, but it is premature at this point...think I will wait til either it is an issue of concern, or a non-issue, before asking.

Congratulations!!! PICS PICS PICS!!!!!!

just tried to attach pic - file is to large. I know there is a way to shrink it, I just don't know how (still fairly computer illiterate)

if you have paint open it in paint... then go to "images" then "sketch/skew" and then in the strech area put in the % you want to shrink it down... if it is still too large or too small you can always go to "edit" and "undo" it... make sure both %'s are the same so the pic doesnt come out all weird looking

oh yeah then go to "files" and click "save as" made sure it is in jpg. format (it has a bittle scroll down menu to pick from, jps files are smaller than bmp.s and gifs)

ok, lets try this

thanks, robin

of course, you may have just helped create a monster. I trust somebody will tell me if I get carried away with pics, lol

congrats on the hatchlings!!!! and i am glad to see you got it... post more!!!

Originally Posted by hhmoore

I do have a question, but it is premature at this point...think I will wait til either it is an issue of concern, or a non-issue, before asking.

I used to know the answer to this one but, after my 7-8 years off, I'm a bit rusty. At what point should you consider slitting unpipped eggs? I'm pretty sure that I recall the eggs of any given clutch pipping within 24 hr of one another. At 36 hrs after finding these guys, I still had 2 unopened eggs. I had mixed feelings about manually slitting them, especially since they were about a week early by the calendar (47 days as previously stated), but one had definite score marks visible. I carefully slit each one and opened them enough to see that there was a fully formed baby in each. I did not mess with them further, but i didn't see any movement. I won't know the status of those last 2 til I get home in the morning, but should I have intervened sooner (or should I have just let them be)? Honestly, if I hadn't noticed the 2 attempted slits in the one egg, I'm not sure that I would have stepped in yet.