Bela and her lozenge eggs :)

Just like last year, Bela has given me four lozenge shaped eggers, laid today. :) They candled nice and veiny. I liked that last year, her hatchlings were larger and tended to grow faster than the babies I got from my other female's "normaller" eggs. Anyone else notice this with the longer-shaped eggs?

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Daddy! Here's hopin' for mega-reduced Spidey babies!

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Sweeet! Love the longhorn background on the spider.:gj:

Actually a lozenge is a diamond or rhombus shape. Bigger wider females will usually give rounder eggs and skinnier females will give longer oval eggs (like yours) I once had a small skinny corn snake lay an egg that was about as long and as fat as my pinkie finger it looked really odd. They hatch just fine though.

Mark

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Originally Posted by MarkS

Actually a lozenge is a diamond or rhombus shape.

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Mark,
Do you mean that in breeding ball pythons a lozenge refers to a diamond or a rhombus shape? Because a lozenge in other contextx is a just a flattish oval.

Genevieve, good luck with your eggs. :)

ETA-- apparently, the lozenge shape in parquetry and jewelry, etc is as you said Mark, with a sometimes definition of flattened oval. I did not know this.

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Originally Posted by ZinniaZ

Mark,
Do you mean that in breeding ball pythons a lozenge refers to a diamond or a rhombus shape? Because a lozenge in other contextx is a just a flattish oval.

Genevieve, good luck with your eggs. :)

ETA-- apparently, the lozenge shape in parquetry and jewelry, etc is as you said Mark, with a sometimes definition of flattened oval. I did not know this.

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I've always known lozenge as being a diamond shape. People will call oval shapes lozenges incorrectly because of the term 'throat lozenge' Which today, we know as a halls mentolyptus oval type shape. However, the ORIGINAL throat lozenges were actually rhombus or diamond shaped because it was the easiest way to manufacture large quantities of them. I'm not sure, but I think smith brothers throat lozenges still are that shape. I remember when I was a little kid my Grandpa always had a pack of cough drops with him and they were always diamond shaped. The term 'throat lozenge' is still used today for cough drops even though many of them are oval shapes.

That is what I found out when I went and looked it up . Interesting. And here I thought you were using special bp breeding terms. Heh.

wow; thanks for clarifying things!