Something in the air last night?

Last night as I was doing my misting/feeding I stumbled across not one, but TWO of my females in their lay boxes. I was quite eager for both these girls to lay and getting impatient. Both of them are notorious for going beyond the regular 30 day intervals you normally wait for cresties to drop their next clutch and can take as long as two months. However, in the end, their eggs are quite large (and in one case one of the eggs is almost twice the size of the average crestie egg).

This is Big Momma (she weighed in at over 70 grams the other day!) in her lay box last night. (She's a chocolate/red bicolour with amazing crest structure that was bred with a partial pin light orange cream who also has amazing crests. Going for structure here not colour.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ntheair001.jpg

And these are her eggs. Notice how large the one to the right is!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ir001-eggs.jpg

And this is Sumi dug down deep into the dirt! (She's a dark orange tiger who was bred with a darker orange cream, I just thought they'd make nice babies.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ntheair002.jpg

And of course her eggs. Both quite large as well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ir002-eggs.jpg

Anyway, thanks for looking and sharing in my little bit of excitement! :D

Crestie seeds!!

Congrats, Stephan!

~Bruce, looking forward to seeing the little ones.

Thanks Bruce!

It's been a slow season so far this year. I've only had one clutch hatch out so far and with a lot of first time breeders some of the eggs laid haven't been good. Now I have 15 eggs I'm waiting on to hatch, some of which are over 100 days now! I'm getting impatient, heh.

Lucky for me both these girls that laid are experienced and are I believe both in their third seasons. Thus the nice big plump eggs. :D

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Originally Posted by BrucenBruce

Crestie seeds!!

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never heard that term lol, i like that :gj:

Good luck with the eggs and you have beautiful cresties!

Good luck!