This is my first clutch and I am SO excited. If my calculations are right I should have eggs around the 3rd of April. So I have time but I want everything perfect just in case she drops early (what is the earliest you have had females lay after they shed?).
On the 14TH she was laying like this.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2290/...6c37e24e_b.jpg
Yesterday she was like this
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/...9deb6f68_b.jpg
It looks like is still laying like that today (but I haven't lifted her hide to see for sure). Is it because I keep peeking in on her (I check on her once a day).
One last question (because I got no answers on my other post)
I got my incubator up and running. My Helix is a dream. I have mixed my perlite and vermiculite. I was going to do 2:1 but it didn't look right. The vermiculite is SO hard to find and I could only get med not course. So I mixed it till it looked right and added water till it clumped when I squeezed it but no water came out and it broke apart easy. My biggest question is how deep should I put it in my egg box? Right now I have about 1", but this is just a test batch to see if I could make it and if I could hold temps. The temp in the egg box is about 88.5 is this too high? Should I drop it to 87?
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