Unexpected surprise

I've had this girl for a little over 2 months ( still in QT ) and when I went down this morning to check on everybody, this is what I found....

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The person I got her from had said she had locked up with the male pastel I got from them as well, but I honestly wasn't expecting anything since she was a bit skinny and small anyway, barely 1000 grams. But she laid nice looking eggs.

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Unfortunately, since I wasn't expecting eggs anytime soon, I don't even have an incubator on. But I set the tub of eggs in a spare tub in the rack and turned the incubator on before I left for work. It should be warmed up by the time I get home :please:

Congrats! That must be exciting waiting to see what the sire was!!! Although you did say she was bred to a Pastel. Still fun!

P.s. I think I would have left the eggs with mom until the 'Bator is up to temp. Just my opinion.

Oh!! That's exciting! Congrats on the surprise clutch! Hopefully you get at least a couple pretty little babies out of those eggs. :)

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Originally Posted by heathers*bps

Unfortunately, since I wasn't expecting eggs anytime soon, I don't even have an incubator on. But I set the tub of eggs in a spare tub in the rack and turned the incubator on before I left for work. It should be warmed up by the time I get home :please:

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Haha, definite surprise! The eggs should be fine for a ew hours while your incubator warms up. I was out of town when one of my girls laid last year, and I'm pretty sure she was on them (newspaper substrate) for 48 hours before I found them. They were pretty dehydrated and stayed dimpled throughout incubation, but hatched all healthy babies.

Wow, what a great surprise!!! Congrats!

Got to love suprises like that :)

Yay! What a fun surprise. You gotta love it!

that is a cool surprise. a much better one than coming downstairs and finding out the cats knocked over a lamp and the dog barfed in the corner. Ha ha.

Congrats.............. May they all be female pastels:please:

Holy unexpected egg drop batman. Thats awesome. Congrats

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Originally Posted by DemmBalls

Congrats! That must be exciting waiting to see what the sire was!!! Although you did say she was bred to a Pastel. Still fun!

P.s. I think I would have left the eggs with mom until the 'Bator is up to temp. Just my opinion.

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It's funny you say that, because I thought of the same thing.........after I pulled mama of the eggs. :rolleyes:

Congrats on the unexpected clutch. :gj:

Very cool, congrats

That is an awesome suprise, Big Congrats! :banana:

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Originally Posted by luvmyballs

that is a cool surprise. a much better one than coming downstairs and finding out the cats knocked over a lamp and the dog barfed in the corner. Ha ha.

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Were you at my house recently? lol

This is so awesome Heather! Congrats and Good Luck! I would love to wake up to a nice pile of pearly whites!

Congrats, hope you get a couple pastel girls out of that group!

Congrats! Did you candle them? They look kinda invertile. BTW, the eggs should be fine without mom for a bit. I would have left them with her also, but, eggs are pretty resiliant. Keep us posted.

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Originally Posted by twistedtails

Congrats! Did you candle them? They look kinda invertile. BTW, the eggs should be fine without mom for a bit. I would have left them with her also, but, eggs are pretty resiliant. Keep us posted.

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Yup, they are all nice a pink :)

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Originally Posted by heathers*bps

Yup, they are all nice a pink :)

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Did they have veins?

Awesome surprise :D

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Originally Posted by twistedtails

Did they have veins?

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They sure do :D

Wow nice surprise!! I'm glad it's turned out well. She's so small, I didn't think it was safe to breed them that small correct? Glad you saved them from whoever you got them from :)

What a wonderful surprise. You probably didn't expect to become a grandparent just like that huh? :D

Just an update: 1 egg was thrown away as it turned solid.....boo. I cut the 4 remaining eggs early this morning ( day 54 ) because they were so deflated and the shells had become super leathery and hard, I wanted to make sure the babies would be alright and able to get out. So it looks like I definitely have 2 pastels, with another poss pastel. Yay!!

Pretty good for practically free eggs! :) Congrats!
And hows Momma doin? She was kinda on the small size wasn't she?

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Originally Posted by Xotik

Pretty good for practically free eggs! :) Congrats!
And hows Momma doin? She was kinda on the small size wasn't she?

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Yea she is definitely smaller than "normal" breeding size, but she's doing good. Ate 2 days after laying and hasn't missed a meal yet :)

You know the rules...Pics or it didn't happen!

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Originally Posted by twistedtails

You know the rules...Pics or it didn't happen!

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They are still in the egg, the little turds. As soon as they come out I'll show you pics :P

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Originally Posted by heathers*bps

They are still in the egg, the little turds. As soon as they come out I'll show you pics :P

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I'll accept pics of eggs... :P

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Originally Posted by katstoverreptiles

i'll accept pics of eggs... :p

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Only thing better than babies hatching, is Bonus Babies hatching!

Wow congrats! Thats pretty cool!

Pics coming shortly.....

The two on the left are pastels. The one is flipped upside down.....what a turd

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They need to come already....:rolleyes:

Oh and this is what they looked like before I cut them....

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