Day 51...eggs are collapsed A LOT

Aww man i just read this whole thread i was hoping to see some pretty baby snakes by the end of it!

Freaking too be continued =[

sorry to disappoint, lonest4r!

i'm always wielding a camera so rest assured that there will be plenty more photos! you can join my Facebook if you'd like: Squamish Serpents. Just send a message saying you're from BP.net!

They should be fine, just relax before your the one that doesn't make it to tomorrow. lol :D

Update us with some pics once they are out. :):)

i made it to tomorrow!! took a bottle of tequila and some sedatives but i made it! (joking)

but AHHHHHH i've been waiting so long for these babies to hatch and now i just want to glue their eggs back shut. i checked on the normal today by lifting up one of the egg-flaps and i can still see yolk, and i can still see that it's belly is not yet shut.

IS THAT OKAY!?!? i'm seriously just willing them not to come out for another week! it is so scary that i saw it's belly open like that, and i bet the rest are like that too since the normal looks most ready to come out. OMG.

god what am i going to do when i have to give birth to a real live human? can't even handle these eggs

Breeeaaaaathe.

The babies will know when it's time to come out. Just relax, as long as you don't disturb them too often, they shouldn't make any attempts to come out before they're darn well ready.

Just make sure that they stay damp (I hear misting is a good method) and let them relax and chill out in their eggs while waiting for the yolk to finish absorbing.

i have misted them and placed some wet paper towels on top to keep them moist. that won't suffocate them, will it?

i'm going to check once again before bed and that's it.

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Originally Posted by SquamishSerpents

Interesting! But yeah those lumps were literally there when I found the eggs, which can't have been more than 2-3 hours after she laid. I had a corn lay eggs like that too, but she double-clutched and hadnt been eating to well between eggs.

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^ Yeah, it looks like "snowflaking" to me. It's weird but just as it is with corn eggs, it's not an issue to worry about. It gives the eggs character. lol


Congrats on the new babies! Looking forward to out of egg pics! :)

I definitely agree with the "breathe" comment. Just relax and let things happen. When I cut at day 52 I usually mist them once or twice a day to keep the gunk out of the eggs and keep the babies moist. They aren't going to die just because you cut them at day 51. I personally think that if you didn't cut them they would have died, those eggs looked pretty hard.

As for the yolk and open bellies, that is totally normal. The veins in the sack around them and the yolk will start to absorb when they start breathing air. The belly usually closes up before they crawl out of the egg. If they have any deformities from the eggs having issues, then they may not soak up the yolk and their bellies may not close-that's what happened with mine last year. If they come out with their bellies open at all, it's not a huge deal. I had one this year whose belly was open a bit and part of the umbilical cord was dragging when it crawled out of the egg. It healed up fine on its own within a couple days. All I did was leave that baby on wet paper towels.

Just relax and stop worrying yourself sick!

just thought i'd update.

it's not good. :'(

so far 2/4 came out, one has what i would call a "cleft lip" deformity, the other was kinked at the tail. both of their bellies were open and had yolk hanging out, swollen bodies, and it didn't improve within 24 hours. they were just all around deformed. i've been crying all day, and my boyfriend had to euthanize and bury them. the mojo had beautiful coloring, and a perfect heart marking.

i am actually just ready to quit because obviously i did something to kill these snakes. they were too humid at the beginning, and i over compensated and removed too much humidity. and everybody else makes it seem so easy. i'm just devastated. bleep bleep bleep bleep.

thanks for everybodies help though, even if it didn't turn out the way i wanted.

Oh, I'm so, so sorry... :(

It's okay, things happen.. Mistakes happen, and so do deformities. Even a perfect clutch with the perfect set up can have a bad clutch that just doesn't make it. We learn from what happened and we move on. It's awful this happened, but remember that now they are not suffering and are at peace. If you ever choose to breed again, you know you will be ready. You've had a horrible experience that no one should ever have to go through, but that happens. We can't control everything that happens. Power outages happen during incubation, someone accidentally rolls the eggs, accidentally sprays too much, etc. Things get easier through time and experience.. They are never really easy the first time, because we're learning through every step.



-hug- I'm sorry it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to. I know there is nothing that can really be said to make things better, but we're here for you. :hug: