Sometimes things need to be done just to give them that extra chance.

On Friday Evening I decided to check my eggs and everything seemed fine until I noticed white oozing from the bottom of the eggs, I candled them and they were still moving but the eggs were deflating due to the loss of egg white. So my 8 egg clutch which was on day 45 seemed to be getting worse so after a lengthy discussion with my wife and a good friend we decided that we would cut and try and give them the best possible chance. I cut one of the eggs and I saw a perfectly formed hatchling coloured and patterned which looked ready to hatch egg tooth included. So it made me think and I made a video on day 3 of incubation of these eggs and we saw a formed baby in all of the eggs ( We all know that we shouldn't be able to see this until 2 weeks or so ) So we came to the conclusion that they were partially incubated inside the female before she laid.

Anyway after cutting the eggs we noticed that we had no other choice than to pull them with yolk included ( Trust me this was the last resort but some had basically drained theirselves due to the slits underneath )

So after I pulled them all and placed them into tubs containing moist kitchen roll they all seemed perfectly fine breathing and strong heart beats although they weren't moving much but that was to be expected. Anyway we checked them on Saturday Evening before going to bed and they were all still breathing and had heart beats so we thought maybe just maybe they will survive. I checked them this morning ( Sunday ) and now I am unable to find any heart beats So after all we could do it seems we have lost them. I swear something or someone out there doesn't want me to succeed, I have three other eggs which were laid 1 week after the eight eggs they also have cuts on the bottoms of the eggs which look like V's. I don't know what's caused this to happen but all I do know is I feel pretty crap at the moment about it all. The 3 eggs with the V's I have hopefully managed to stop the oozing due to the holes only being small so there might be hope yet with those ones.

Anyway I have taken photographs of the babies during taking them out of their eggs so I can share with others about my ordeal but I will put those up later on.

At the moment I am seriously considering not breeding anymore I don't know if I can take much more of this.