This clutch was out of Trouser, my normal "rescue," who was paired with a mojave and a black pastel het. pied. She laid six eggs, though one went bad around halfway through incubation.
The first hatchling pipped July 11th with most of the others following suit the day afterwards. One took its sweet time, pipped on the 14th, and exited the egg yesterday.
The results have me puzzled. All normals - crazy odds - and unless I'm terrible at sexing they all appear to be female. Some of their patterns are a bit funky, so I'm torn between them possibly being out of the black pastel het. pied with them being hets, or Trouser potentially reproducing via parthenogenesis.
If some hatchlings are het pied, the ratio makes sense (roughly half) but the odds are still a bit farfetched to miss out on a black pastel and/or a male. If it was parthenogenesis, the reproduction method itself seems fairly uncommon and locks were observed with the males, so it's strange that cloning was the "preferred" way to go.
I don't think there will ever be a way of confirming what happened, so I'm content knowing they made it this far and all seem healthy. Truth be told, I'd be excited by any result - crazy odds of hitting all normal females, having a het pied to prove out I'm a few years, or my very own case of parthenogenesis. Can't say I have any complaints about my first clutch, and there's still one more set to hatch at the end of the month!
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