Where did the veins go?

So my pastel x pied clutch is pipping all out of sync: I came home and found 3 eggs slit, so I cut the other 3. A couple hours later I've got four with their noses out, (two of which are visibly breathing), one little pastel that keeps giving me the evil eye but hasn't lifted his nose up out of the goo yet... and one het pied that has actually come all the way out. Is that... normal?

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...0/IMG_5674.JPG

And check it out: the eggs that aren't breathing yet still have huge red veins, but the empty egg is completely clean of them. Where the heck did the veins go?


EDIT: Here's the image album if you want to magnify it:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

Hi,

Yes it's normal. :)

Some of the veins get drawn inside with the yolksack but there are still some in the goo - they have no blood in them as that is also drawn back into the hatchling.

And congrats. :D


dr del

Thanks! They did all come out eventually, some of them just took their sweet time about it. Four het pieds, two pastels het for pied. I'm no good at popping, so they'll have to wait for sexes.

... but now one of the little pastels is kind of dragging a stringy bit of umbilicus after him, and it picked up vermiculite. Should I worry about that? (Do the ones that exit before fully absorbing their yolk/umbilicus often accidentally absorb bits of dirt, too? And does it ever cause problems?)

Hi,

I usually set mine up in invidial tubs right away on damp papertowel. But I wash any stuck vermiculite etc off them before putting them in. :)

Mostly the umbilicus left dries up and drops off. I still panic every time though. :cool:


dr del