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Sheesh! Last year, I had babies by now!
Bitey (Iodine) finally laid her eggs today! I felt five or six eggs at most all the times I palpated her, and she gave me seven pearly whites instead! I honestly don't know how she fit all those in there!
All the eggs look nice and red with lots of blood vessels...except one, which has a few vessels over about one-third of the egg and the rest is a solid yellow. I have no idea if this one is viable or not, but they all went in the incubator, so we'll see!
Days since pre-lay shed: 36.
Clutch weight: 601 grams.
Average egg weight: ~85.5 grams.
The arrow is pointing to the possible slug, which doesn't look any different than the other eggs unless candled.
Sorry about the lame egg container! The one egg on top of the others was just a tiny bit too high for my usual egg container...and none of the rest of my egg containers would fit in the little Hova-Bator! AAAAAH!! After some initial panic, the best thing I could think of was lopping off the top few inches of a gallon ice cream container and cover the clutch with saran wrap. It should work okay. If not, then I guess I'll be building my incubator early! (I wasn't going to build it until late this year/early next year. It should hold a minimum of six clutches, but since this year I'm only going to have one, I figured I'd just stick with the Hova-Bator for now. Guess that wasn't such a good idea.)
Anyway, she's supposed to be het VPI Axanthic, so I bred her to Tungsten, who is a visual VPI Axanthic. This is her first clutch.
The proud, angry, but tired mom:
Dad:
And yes, Bitey lived up to her nickname when I tried to peel her off the eggs. Hee hee.
I find it interesting that both clutches I've had so far have consisted of lots of very small eggs. I don't know what the actual average egg weight is, but it seems like it's in the 90 to 100 gram range. Irulan's clutch last year was eight eggs averaging 80 grams each. It's no problem at all; the babies hatched and were perfectly healthy. I just wonder if it has something to do with my husbandry or if I'm just dealing with small-number statistics.
Bitey (Iodine) finally laid her eggs today! I felt five or six eggs at most all the times I palpated her, and she gave me seven pearly whites instead! I honestly don't know how she fit all those in there!
All the eggs look nice and red with lots of blood vessels...except one, which has a few vessels over about one-third of the egg and the rest is a solid yellow. I have no idea if this one is viable or not, but they all went in the incubator, so we'll see!
Days since pre-lay shed: 36.
Clutch weight: 601 grams.
Average egg weight: ~85.5 grams.
The arrow is pointing to the possible slug, which doesn't look any different than the other eggs unless candled.
Sorry about the lame egg container! The one egg on top of the others was just a tiny bit too high for my usual egg container...and none of the rest of my egg containers would fit in the little Hova-Bator! AAAAAH!! After some initial panic, the best thing I could think of was lopping off the top few inches of a gallon ice cream container and cover the clutch with saran wrap. It should work okay. If not, then I guess I'll be building my incubator early! (I wasn't going to build it until late this year/early next year. It should hold a minimum of six clutches, but since this year I'm only going to have one, I figured I'd just stick with the Hova-Bator for now. Guess that wasn't such a good idea.)
Anyway, she's supposed to be het VPI Axanthic, so I bred her to Tungsten, who is a visual VPI Axanthic. This is her first clutch.
The proud, angry, but tired mom:
Dad:
And yes, Bitey lived up to her nickname when I tried to peel her off the eggs. Hee hee.
I find it interesting that both clutches I've had so far have consisted of lots of very small eggs. I don't know what the actual average egg weight is, but it seems like it's in the 90 to 100 gram range. Irulan's clutch last year was eight eggs averaging 80 grams each. It's no problem at all; the babies hatched and were perfectly healthy. I just wonder if it has something to do with my husbandry or if I'm just dealing with small-number statistics.
Keep us posted!
I'm afraid that I'd get up in the middle of the night, look for a snack, and...
Wouldn't THAT be a surprise! (My new incubator is my old fridge, hence my "worrying" about the container!!! LMAO)
