I have in the past incubated at 89-90 degrees, and am still doing some clutches at that temp this year, but also have incubated my first 3 clutches at 86-87 degrees. All 3 of these clutches hatched and were out of the egg by days 53 and 54, perfectly healthy with fully absorbed yolks. The clutches at the higher temps have not hatched yet, but in the past, they've hatched and been out of the egg from days 57-62. It could be pure coincidence, and I have not hatched out enough clutches(on the high or low end of temps) to really draw any logical conclusions...or even educated guesses for that matter. I just find it really interesting, as I would have expected quite the opposite for the eggs incubated at lower temps.

The babies I've hatched out so far have been a little on the smaller side(46-60 grams), but I think that's just more of a result of them coming from smaller eggs, but is not something I'm overlooking either. I'll be monitoring them closely as they start feeding to see how quickly they take to food or if they are more stubborn starters.

Any thoughts on this? I really don't have any one way or the other, and if the babies all start feeding well I may do this again next year.