Mystery eggs are hatching, need help cutting

Hi everyone, my four mystery babies are hatching! :)

Two of them slit the eggs, I added some cuts no problem. One is out, the other looks like he/she is doing just fine and ready to pop out!

On the non-slit eggs, I tried to cut them as I have seen on many vids and books. I pulled up some slack and made a small slit. On both of them I saw some blood as soon as I did that (I think I nicked a vein).

Is this really bad? I just left them as is, what should I do?

Thanks!

JonV

If they are due to hatch, nicking a vein is not a huge deal.

Candle your egg, and check to see if you can see veins, and cut around, if it concerns you :)

Thanks Heather, candling worked well!

Pre-shed are the babies darker or lighter than they will be post shed? All the babies popping out look really really light....pastels??

JonV

Lighter than post shed...

But they may be pastels if you bred to a pastel.. I can't tell you until I see pics ;)

ya, we need pics!!!!!!!!

That's the thing...I got this adult female and surprise, she turned out to be gravid. The previous owner has no idea what she was bred to, as he runs a huge business and one of his employees must have just tossed a male in there.

JonV

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Originally Posted by nevohraalnavnoj

That's the thing...I got this adult female and surprise, she turned out to be gravid. The previous owner has no idea what she was bred to, as he runs a huge business and one of his employees must have just tossed a male in there.

JonV

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Well, post pics and I'm sure we can figure it out :D

I did some googling and I'm pretty sure they are just normals. I will borrow a friends camera and hopefully get some pics up tonight! :)

JonV

keep a male back and a female back... does this guy do a lot of normal to normal breeding? if not i bet his worker threw in a recssive animal and you might have hets for a gene.

can't wait to see pix :)