incubating time

I incubated my last 2 eggs that hatched out last fall at 84 degrees, thought they were both girls until last night, one is definately a boy. All my others were incubated lower and all are females.

I incubated at 82 last year for all females and wound up with several males it was around 10% males. If I am not going to raise my male percentage by going up to Ill raise the temps!

What is the temps to avoid? Like when do you defintely get hot females?

Originally Posted by dragonflyreptiles

I incubated at 82 last year for all females and wound up with several males it was around 10% males. If I am not going to raise my male percentage by going up to Ill raise the temps!

I'm sure many will argee with me on this but 10% males from 82 degrees is not the norm. How often do you ckeck your temps maybe there is a discrepancy in your incubator and it flucutated to mid 80s. I don't think that firts website you listed is very credable I skimmed thru it found couple things I disagree.

Originally Posted by ZenReptiles

What is the temps to avoid? Like when do you defintely get hot females?

You can get females and males from any range of temps in concern with the so called "hot" females came from male temps 88-90 shouldn't be too common do and I won't want to not incuabte for males just to avoid that, I personally have incubated only 2 females from male temps and have one which I purchased which was incubated as male but is female. Not sure how folks feel on it butt Ron Tremper states that females from higher temps take longer to become sexually mature and not that they aren't able to breed just aren't receptive at the same size as a normal female would be. So he feels there isn't really hot females.

At 84 you should produce mainly females, but most likely a few males too.

I incubate my female eggs at 82, male eggs at 90. I am about to set up an 86 degree incubator also, for all my Tremper Albino eggs, so the females won't be doo doo brown but I won't have to use the Tremper Method.