Ok, before people start bashing this.. I personally did not ever want to allow maternal incubation. I had an issue with my incubator at the last minute & had no other choice at the time. My question is regarding the healing process of the egg sores..

Last season i found out my big female is obviously too protective of a mother to allow maternal incubation. She never once uncoiled from the eggs. Would not allow them to touch the substrate. The temp and humidity readings were perfect the entire time. I believe she actually kept the eggs themselves too dry by never uncoiling from them.

Because of this she developed egg sores along the inside of her body where she was constantly touching the eggs. Once they began to pip, i removed them to a smaller set-up with correct temp and humidity like an incubator but id already lost 2 of the babies due to egg collapse.

Not getting too far off topic- its now been 4 months since the eggs were taken from her. She has gained much of the weight back. I had her looked at by my vet after she was cleaned up and shed, shortly after the eggs were taken from her.

The sores ran about 6 to 8 inches along her side and looked like blisters. Now about 4 sheds later, its just a thin line of a scar where its much darker than the rest of her body. I had delt with rodent bites on my burmese years ago but nothing like this.

Does anyone have any experience with sores like this and will the dark line of a scar eventually disappear where the sores were? It does get better and less noticable with each shed and shes eating and gaining weight very well. I did as my vet instructed and kept her humidity low for that first month to allow the blisters to dry out. Im just wondering if she will always have this long line of a dark scar or if it will eventually go away completely.

BTW. After this experience im not allowing maternal incubation ever again.