What to do after cutting open a 54 day old ball python egg?
Hi bp netters,
im new in this site and in breeding ball pythons... Hope someone here can help me out.. What should we do after cutting open a ball python egg (day 54). Non of the egg in the clutch has peeped but I decided to cut them open because one of the eggs had a nipple like protrusion that were getting moldy.. This baby didn't make it. Had cut open the others and they're alive. Do we wait to have them come out or can we remove them from there eggs?
Thanks guys.. Hope someone can help me out
Re: What to do after cutting open a 54 day old ball python egg?
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alainphillip
Hi bp netters,
im new in this site and in breeding ball pythons... Hope someone here can help me out.. What should we do after cutting open a ball python egg (day 54). Non of the egg in the clutch has peeped but I decided to cut them open because one of the eggs had a nipple like protrusion that were getting moldy.. This baby didn't make it. Had cut open the others and they're alive. Do we wait to have them come out or can we remove them from there eggs?
Thanks guys.. Hope someone can help me out
You wait.
Re: What to do after cutting open a 54 day old ball python egg?
No you don't take them out of the egg!!! Why would you even think that make sense? Let them come out by themselves...
Re: What to do after cutting open a 54 day old ball python egg?
Thanks John and coldblooded.
but it's safe to cut them in this stage incubated 88.6F (day 54)? Do you removed them from the incubator once you cut them open and transfer the open egg to a moist tub or just keep them in the incubator till they come out? My prob is that if I wait them out in the incubator, I still have some eggs there that they might disturb.
thanks all.
Re: What to do after cutting open a 54 day old ball python egg?
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alainphillip
Thanks John and coldblooded.
but it's safe to cut them in this stage incubated 88.6F (day 54)? Do you removed them from the incubator once you cut them open and transfer the open egg to a moist tub or just keep them in the incubator till they come out? My prob is that if I wait them out in the incubator, I still have some eggs there that they might disturb.
thanks all.
You leave them in the incubator until they all come out. Why would they disturb other eggs? Aren't they in a closed egg tub?
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alainphillip
Have a small incubator and other eggs are in there now.. Transferred them to a Squamata tub under flex watt @88f. Read from some books to safely incubate them @88-90f. Kevin mcurley's book. The previous clutch 1 peeped @ day 53, second clutch 1 peeped day 50, every time 1 peeps out from the clutch, I try cutting them open.. Just this 3rd clutch was kind problematic. It's day 54 then none is peeping.. Then one of the eggs had a nipple kinda part that had molds.. So tried touching the egg then it was kinda hard so opened it and the baby ball was dead.. It's like the yolk has hardened or had a consistency of a glue. So I decided to cut them all open. All are incubated around 88-89f. Humidity 90-95%. Do u think wat I did is bad?
Cutting at Day 54 isn't necessarily bad (I do it), but you don't want to force them to come out of the egg unless you can see a problem, or one is taking many days longer than the others in the same clutch to come out (which could indicate a problem). This clutch shouldn't bother any other eggs in your incubator, as long as it is in its own, enclosed, egg tub. Oh, and throw out the bad egg if it isn't attached to the good ones.
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Tnx guys for all your response...
yeah, one of eggs opened on the 2nd clutch seemed to have a prob.. All the others in the clutch had come out.. Only this one was still inside and somehow inside a plastic coating.. Like it was not able to cut out the plastic coating wrapping it.. Decided to cut a small opening on the coating and still notice a big egg yolk.. Hopefully everything's gona be good. Tnx guys.. Will update on what's happening..
I just had a clutch hatch on the 23rd of sept and one of my eggs had that clear coating the membrane that wasn't open once I cut the eggs open. That was the last baby to finally come out of the egg. But I was told that after a day if that baby didn't pick it's head up out of the membrane to assist it. But there was good movement in the egg and it did it by itself. The big egg yolk will disappear and the snake will come out of the egg when its ready to come out. Good luck with the babies :)
