Cutting Eggs Tonight

It's day 56 and we're going to be cutting our first clutch tonight. There are no holes in our egg tub, and I'm wondering what I should do about oxygen. What's the procedure after the eggs are cut? I want to make sure they have enough oxygen. Do you move the eggs to a tub with holes?

After I cut, I just check on them once or twice a day. My egg boxes do not have any holes in them and I haven't had any problems.

No holes here either

How did it go? Did you cut them? What did you get? Tell us now!! :D

^^^^^ Ditto!!!! I have been Patiently waiting since I saw this post at around 1:30 am!!!!! LOL

This! Do tell plz :D

Haha, sorry guys. Didn't mean to keep you waiting. We didn't go poking around too much (boyfriend was paranoid about disturbing them) so I'm unsure about most of their genes. It looks like a normal is already out and about! Slithering all around her/his sibling's eggs. It looks like a Pastel is in another and maybe even another normal or pastel in a third egg (not the best odds at this point, but I'm just excited to have them!).

There's a spider in one, but I'm concerned about it. It looks skinny compared to its siblings and its yolk is huge. I haven't seen it move at all.. I'm wondering if maybe umbilical got tied or maybe it's just lagging behind... I'm not sure what to do about it, because I cant really see what's going on. I'll take a picture when my boyfriend gets home.

As far as the other eggs, we'll definitely need some help identifying. Some very blushed heads are poking out of those. One appears to be a Kingpin, another looks like maybe a spinner or lemonblast or something, and the last.... MAYBE a Queenspin. It looks white in color with very thin sparse caramel stripes.

Pairing Queenbee x Pinstripe

I'll take more pics asap!

http://i.imgur.com/Js9DlnR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Kk0ZWMX.jpg

Also,

Can anyone help with advice on what to buy them for food? I want to have them on F/T rats, but I'll probably buy some F/T Mice in case we have some really picky eaters. My plan was to buy Rat Pinks and Rat Fuzzies, and then also some Mice, but what size? I've seen people saying they use even rat pups for the first meal? Seems kind of big?

TLDR: What size Rats and Mice should I buy for the hatchlings?

I start mine on live mouse hoppers. After three successful feedings I switch to f/t hoppers for a few feedings, then to f/t rat pups.

I would take a better look at that yolk baby. If it has a twisted umbilical cord he's going to need some extra TLC.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

I start mine on live mouse hoppers. After three successful feedings I switch to f/t hoppers for a few feedings, then to f/t rat pups.

I would take a better look at that yolk baby. If it has a twisted umbilical cord he's going to need some extra TLC.

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Do you ever have issues switching them to rats, since you began with mice?

Sorry for the crummy photos, but here's what I could before I felt like I was bothering them too much.

http://i.imgur.com/nKV7Xxf.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/QcWPF1V.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RUAVoq3.jpg

As far as the spider, by boyfriend and I think the little guy might not be with us. :( Upon closer inspection, the inside of his egg seems very dry. The spiders skin is sticking to the inside shell of the egg. No movement from him, and his head is nowhere in sight. We're gonna keep him in the egg box for now, though. Could it have gotten too dry and that had killed him? He looks exactly the same as he did when we cut the egg open a couple days ago. The rest look good, egg yolk is pretty much all gone.

http://i.imgur.com/XGmcMdG.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/6Z6w72d.jpg

We're trying to figure out what went wrong with him. It looks like his yolk is attached to the top of the egg, where we cut, but isn't the yolk supposed to be attached to the bottom of the egg? The egg is upside down, maybe? We marked the top of the eggs and haven't rotated them at all. We found this clutch within 12 hours of it being layed, but the eggs were not stuck together and had rolled around her tub, we picked them up carefully and marked them according to how we found them. Pretty clueless about what happened :(

I'm sorry the spider didn't make it. However the others look great, please post pictures when they are out of the egg. Congrats on the great clutch.

Sorry for the loss.

Don't just put the eggs in the incubator the way you find them. Mom generally does a good job of keeping them positioned so the yolk is on the bottom, but obviously not always. Candle the eggs first before putting them in the incubator. Mark the top where the veins are clearly visible. Where the yolk is will always be darker when candling and you won't see any veins ;)

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Originally Posted by coreydelong

Sorry for the loss.

Don't just put the eggs in the incubator the way you find them. Mom generally does a good job of keeping them positioned so the yolk is on the bottom, but obviously not always. Candle the eggs first before putting them in the incubator. Mark the top where the veins are clearly visible. Where the yolk is will always be darker when candling and you won't see any veins ;)

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Thank you for the information. It was her first clutch and the eggs were all over her tub, she was wrapped around three of them in the back only. Wish we had known about the veins/yolk positioning.

It sucks that the little one didn't make it, but the other ones look great! Looking forward to more pics!

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Originally Posted by Galaxygirl

Thank you for the information. It was her first clutch and the eggs were all over her tub, she was wrapped around three of them in the back only. Wish we had known about the veins/yolk positioning.

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I'm not saying at all that that was the cause. People have purposely rotated eggs during incubation to see if it really matters and the babies have turned out just fine. I just like to give every egg the best chance possible by candling them before placing them in the incubator.

Aww congrats!!! Those tubs aren't air tight, no worries there.

New photos! Help identify? We're going to go with Normal, Pastel, Lemon Blast. What do you think?


Normal
http://i.imgur.com/7ECVnJU.jpg

Pastel
http://i.imgur.com/BwSpdDD.jpg


Lemon Blast
http://i.imgur.com/JRH35gq.jpg


Lemon Blast and Pastel
http://i.imgur.com/VIIElWd.jpg

What was the pairing?

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Originally Posted by Lizardlicks

What was the pairing?

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Queen bee x Pinstripe

Good topic and nice babies :) Thank you for share.

Sorry for your loss. It was the umbilical cord twisted? Looks fully developed little one.

Updated pics! Feel free to help identify. I posted a thread in the morphs section asking for help.

http://i.imgur.com/ZvLaXBE.jpg

We took apart the eggs and he appears to have been dead for a while, before we cut the eggs even. No twisted umbilicus. We're not sure what happened :l

They look great. Congrats on the nice clutch.

I say 1 Classic, 2 pastel, 1 kingpin pastel, 1 lemonblast and the Jackpot 1 queenspin :) Nice clutch

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Originally Posted by Wizzzla

I say 1 Classic, 2 pastel, 1 kingpin pastel, 1 lemonblast and the Jackpot 1 queenspin :) Nice clutch

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Thank you! Thats what everyone think they are as well (: