POLL: What was your success rate in 2007?

2 females both produced for me last year, the prooven breeder had 8 eggs 8 hatched and the first time girl had 5 eggs 1 had to be drained whilst still inside her and one went bad the other 3 hatched great so not bad for my first year with balls

Here was mine:

-Normal female x Pastel male 1: 8 out of 8 eggs hatched successfully. 6 Pastels, 2 Normals.

-Normal female x Pastel 2: 4 out of 4 eggs hatched successfully. 1 Pastel, 3 Normals.

-Normal x Normal: lost the entire clutch (first one of the year) when my crappy Hovabator crashed and cooked the eggs after a power outage. Lost 8 eggs that had candled well and were promising. learned.. made my incubator myself using Flexwatt, a Helix, and styro cooler.. got the great hatchlings above.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Here was mine:

-Normal female x Pastel male 1: 8 out of 8 eggs hatched successfully. 6 Pastels, 2 Normals.

-Normal female x Pastel 2: 4 out of 4 eggs hatched successfully. 1 Pastel, 3 Normals.

-Normal x Normal: lost the entire clutch (first one of the year) when my crappy Hovabator crashed and cooked the eggs after a power outage. Lost 8 eggs that had candled well and were promising. learned.. made my incubator myself using Flexwatt, a Helix, and styro cooler.. got the great hatchlings above.

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Jen how big was the girl that produced the 8 eggs for you?

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Originally Posted by veedubz

2 females both produced for me last year, the prooven breeder had 8 eggs 8 hatched and the first time girl had 5 eggs 1 had to be drained whilst still inside her and one went bad the other 3 hatched great so not bad for my first year with balls

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drained??? how?? thank you

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Originally Posted by munding

drained??? how?? thank you

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using a fairly large (14G) hypodermic needle and a steady hand. it was one of the most stressful times of my life as it was my favorite girl lol

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Originally Posted by Emilio

Jen how big was the girl that produced the 8 eggs for you?

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She's normally around 2500-odd grams.

Well for me it kinda so far so good. I have a cluth of 4 and another of 7 in the incubator. I have anothe 3 that are gravid, I think out of 12 that I attempted. This is only my second season with balls but next year I will have potentially 35-40 females that will be ready so I need all the experiance I can get.:D

I said 80% - 100%

I attempted 11 girls 10 became gravid. 9 have successfully laid their clutches without mishap. I am waiting on the 10th to drop her clutch (bred her late) and the 11th fooled me (I mistook a building for ovulation).

10 Clutches hatched successfully of varying numbers and 2 hatchlings lost.

Clutches comprise::gj:
Albinos
Pastels
Mojaves
1 Bumblebee
1 Pewter
a few Normals
Paradox (deceased)
Pastel (deceased)

I'd say I'm in the low 40's as per females bred to females that laid. Keep your eye out for the great snow storm on 08/09 though!

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Originally Posted by broadude

I said 80% - 100%

I attempted 11 girls 10 became gravid. 9 have successfully laid their clutches without mishap. I am waiting on the 10th to drop her clutch (bred her late) and the 11th fooled me (I mistook a building for ovulation).

10 Clutches hatched successfully of varying numbers and 2 hatchlings lost.

Clutches comprise::gj:
Albinos
Pastels
Mojaves
1 Bumblebee
1 Pewter
a few Normals
Paradox (deceased)
Pastel (deceased)

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Wow, sounds like you had a very nice year. Sorry to hear about the two that were deceased. I actually had 90% rate. I bred 3 males two 10 females and received 9 viable clutes.