EMERGENCY HELP!!! - Quiet Tempest, I need you.

[anatess]

Our maternally incubating mother left her eggs!!!
The eggs are already on day 60 but they haven't pipped yet. Candles good still - movement and veins.
My husband went ahead and pipped the eggs and they still have movement but there's no more mother!
What to do????

[AwBaillie]

Macguyver up a quick cooler incubator would be my suggestion.

[anatess]

My husband says the eggs are dead that's why the mom left.
He said, I am mistaken, there was no movement when he pipped them and they don't look "done".
I don't wanna give up hope. There's no smell.
Getting the untested emergency incubator stabilized.

[J.Vandegrift]

Can you post a pic of the one he cut? If it were me I would make sure the one he cut is dead. If the veins still look good I would bet they are alive. The veins basically blow up when they die. I would open the slit on the cut egg a little more and poke around a little to see if you get any movement.

[muddoc]

As John said, the veins are the key. Are the veins white/grey or are the red? If they are red, they are good, and I would expect the babies to emerge soon. I would go ahead and pip the eggs. Also, if they are still alive and truly on day 60, I don't really think they need the mother any longer (I have not maternally incubated, but I have seen eggs hatch in displays at shows, with no special heat or humidity). Essentially once they are already cooked for their incubation period, the mother leaving is probably okay.

I hope that helps,

[PassionsPythons]

Sometimes the babies are coiled so tightly in the eggs and completely ignorant to touch that they won't move. I had several babies out of my first clutch no move when I touched them, but all of them came out of the eggs and are thriving well. Give them a chance.

I'd put them on moist paper towels in a 6qt. container with lid sit that on a heat strip set with a 90 degree hot spot and give them about 2-3 days to come out. If they begin to smell then you know you have dead babies. Otherwise they should all come out. Good luck!

[BallChick]

Just realized this thread is REALLY OLD. Sorry.

[bamdy]

lol that makes two of us, i read the whole thing, and was hoping to beable to see the outcome but i see the last post and now ill never know, DUN DUN DUNNNNN

[Kaorte]

That was anti climactic

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[rdoyle]

Me to. I read it I was hoping to see what happen