Mystery eggs are hatching, need help cutting

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Hi everyone, my four mystery babies are hatching!

Two of them slit the eggs, I added some cuts no problem. One is out, the other looks like he/she is doing just fine and ready to pop out!

On the non-slit eggs, I tried to cut them as I have seen on many vids and books. I pulled up some slack and made a small slit. On both of them I saw some blood as soon as I did that (I think I nicked a vein).

Is this really bad? I just left them as is, what should I do?

Thanks!

JonV

[LadyOhh]

If they are due to hatch, nicking a vein is not a huge deal.

Candle your egg, and check to see if you can see veins, and cut around, if it concerns you

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Thanks Heather, candling worked well!

Pre-shed are the babies darker or lighter than they will be post shed? All the babies popping out look really really light....pastels??

JonV

[LadyOhh]

Lighter than post shed...

But they may be pastels if you bred to a pastel.. I can't tell you until I see pics

[atp151415]

ya, we need pics!!!!!!!!

[nevohraalnavnoj]

That's the thing...I got this adult female and surprise, she turned out to be gravid. The previous owner has no idea what she was bred to, as he runs a huge business and one of his employees must have just tossed a male in there.

JonV

[LadyOhh]

That's the thing...I got this adult female and surprise, she turned out to be gravid. The previous owner has no idea what she was bred to, as he runs a huge business and one of his employees must have just tossed a male in there.

JonV

Well, post pics and I'm sure we can figure it out

[nevohraalnavnoj]

I did some googling and I'm pretty sure they are just normals. I will borrow a friends camera and hopefully get some pics up tonight!

JonV

[NickMyers03]

keep a male back and a female back... does this guy do a lot of normal to normal breeding? if not i bet his worker threw in a recssive animal and you might have hets for a gene.

[ViciousBliss]

can't wait to see pix