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What "should" eggs look and feel like at day 40-ish?

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It's been a couple years and several species since I hatched a corn clutch, and the first one of mine personally.

I forget what the eggs are supposed to "do" as they develop -- do they stay nice and firm like crestie eggs, or wrinkle like beardie eggs?

I have 2 clutches in the incubator, at 85, they're about 3 days apart. One clutch, most of the eggs are round and smooth, but firm to the touch. A few are 'dimpled' or 'wrinkled' but still firm to the touch. (The vermiculite is moist.) The other clutch has eggs that look like both of these, but a third 'type', that are wrinkled and soft to the touch, like beardie eggs get before hatching.

What's normal, what should they be like at this point? Am I going to lose one or several of these 'types' or is this all normal for a corn clutch?
 
Honda99_300ex said:
with your temps being at 85, I would think they are getting ready to start hatching in the near future.
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I would agree. I have hatched out a number of corns, and all of those sound normal to me. Sometimes the eggs are firm and some are softer. Ive had both hatch out.

But, even with that being said, neither of those things matter if the eggs aren't fertile at all anyways. Have you candled them yet?
 
I was wondering if they were about to go, but 40 days sounded a little short from everything I'd found online, I thought corns tended to go 50-60 on average.

Yep. They candled fertile from day one, all had nice fertile "dots"", then went into the overall pink blush a couple weeks later when I checked them again. I was having trouble seeing what was going on most recently, as they mostly just look "dark" inside. (At least with crestie eggs, that mostly means the egg's full of critter so not much light gets through. I don't really know how a near-term snake egg is supposed to look.)

I guess I'm just over-worrying. I'm just so used to crestie eggs that stay firm until they hatch, that "wrinkled" looking eggs automatically set off alarms in my head, even though I intellectually *know* that a lot of species naturally wrinkle before hatching.
 
dheideman said:
I was wondering if they were about to go, but 40 days sounded a little short from everything I'd found online, I thought corns tended to go 50-60 on average.

Yep. They candled fertile from day one, all had nice fertile "dots"", then went into the overall pink blush a couple weeks later when I checked them again. I was having trouble seeing what was going on most recently, as they mostly just look "dark" inside. (At least with crestie eggs, that mostly means the egg's full of critter so not much light gets through. I don't really know how a near-term snake egg is supposed to look.)

I guess I'm just over-worrying. I'm just so used to crestie eggs that stay firm until they hatch, that "wrinkled" looking eggs automatically set off alarms in my head, even though I intellectually *know* that a lot of species naturally wrinkle before hatching.
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If they are fertile then they should be fine. In all honesty, when I have corns eggs I don't even use an incubator. I just put them on the highest shelf in the closet and let them be.

The reason yours might be closer to hatching then say at the regular 50 days is because the temp is a little higher. Even though it is higher, it shouldn't matter at all. Corn eggs are very easy to hatch.
 
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