Does anyone know

[roosterman2173]

At what stage before hatching do the babies start to develop color. I had a boob egg go bad at day 25 so when I took it out the embryo was nice and white with gold eyes. The mother and father are both het albinos.

[PythonWallace]

From what I've seen with corn snakes, skin pigment is one of the last things to develop. I could be wrong, but that's what I've seen.

[janeothejungle]

In my experience, they don't truly 'color up' until the week before hatch. Day 45 - 50ish. Granted, patterning develops earlier, but the last week or so they seem to really 'fill in' color-wise.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Kat

[Somed00d]

color develops later on in incubation.

[sg1trogdor]

From what I have heard it develops around the last week of incubation.

[roosterman2173]

thanks

[muddoc]

I will relay a story about what recently occured to me, and another story that occurs every year for me.

The first story involoves a clutch off eggs that I cut about 2 weeks ago. I cut a clutch of 6 eggs from Cinny x Pastel. I cut them on day 50. I saw 3 Pastels and 3 Pewters. Boy was I excited. These would be our first Pewters, as we missed on them last year. They all emerged between day 57 and 58. What came out of the eggs was 3 Pastels and 3 Cinnys. It was amazing how much color they gained in the last week.

My second story involves hatching Axanthics. Over the last three years, we have hatched 7 clutches of Axanthics, with 3 more to go this year. Every clucth when I cut, I count the Axanthics, and every clutch, I always over count by 1 or 2. It is because in that last week, they develop into normals.

In essence, all I did was to agree with all of the precious posters that color is definitely majority aquired in the last week.

Hope that helps,

[Sasquatch Art]

I will relay a story about what recently occured to me, and another story that occurs every year for me.

The first story involoves a clutch off eggs that I cut about 2 weeks ago. I cut a clutch of 6 eggs from Cinny x Pastel. I cut them on day 50. I saw 3 Pastels and 3 Pewters. Boy was I excited. These would be our first Pewters, as we missed on them last year. They all emerged between day 57 and 58. What came out of the eggs was 3 Pastels and 3 Cinnys. It was amazing how much color they gained in the last week.

My second story involves hatching Axanthics. Over the last three years, we have hatched 7 clutches of Axanthics, with 3 more to go this year. Every clucth when I cut, I count the Axanthics, and every clutch, I always over count by 1 or 2. It is because in that last week, they develop into normals.

In essence, all I did was to agree with all of the precious posters that color is definitely majority aquired in the last week.

Hope that helps,

Wow Tim that is very interesting.

Thank you for sharing both instances.

Good luck on hitting Pewters in the near future.

[muddoc]

Wow Tim that is very interesting.

Thank you for sharing both instances.

Good luck on hitting Pewters in the near future.

Thank for the Pewter luck, but I finally broke down, and got one from another breeder. I am waiting on it to shed and feed, and it will be coming home. Then the pics will come.