I think my eggs are dying.

[J.Vandegrift]

never use that method with ball eggs !!! same thing happened to me last year it cost me big time slightly moist vermiculite & then the crate very little water. always better to be dry then too wet!!hope they survive if they go green they are dead.

I have used that method (but with egg crate) for every clutch that I have ever produced. Never lost a single egg bacause of it. I have even used just pure water with no substrate at all and they do fine.

[greghall]

I have used that method (but with egg crate) for every clutch that I have ever produced. Never lost a single egg bacause of it. I have even used just pure water with no substrate at all and they do fine.

well I had some bad luck, used perlite with water 1/4 the way up in substrate eggs still got wet ! went green.

[greghall]

Im stuck on vermiculite (just clumpy) & grate works well all my clutches since have been fine.

[J.Vandegrift]

well I had some bad luck, used perlite with water 1/4 the way up in substrate eggs still got wet ! went green.

Did you put anything between the eggs and the perlite? The perlite will soak up the water and make the eggs too wet if you let the eggs come in contact with it. The only reason for perlite with this method is to keep the water from sloshing around when you move the box. The eggs should not be anywhere near it.

[A.VinczeBPs]

Not sure why it started, very sorry to hear it.

However, I disagree with your picture taking, you turned the egg upside-down...that's, as I've always been taught, very bad. You can detach the yolk.
(I could be wrong, but I heard it from quite a few breeders)

Sorry to hear though, really sucks. Hope the others are doing well, keep the bottoms dry!

[dr del]

Hi,

And the downward spiral coontinues.

The second egg is now looking dubious and it is firmly attatched to the one remaining good egg.

I treated with the foot powder again but I'm starting to think this clutch is a goner.










dr del

[Animals As Leaders]

Hey dr del,

Just wanted to say that i used your hot glue technique for thermometer probe and I love the idea, and I was actually off a little more then I thought in terms of what they were really sitting on so thanks so much for the great advice!!

BUT!

Why are you incubating like this? Why not use some verm? This is my first breeding season and my clutch is 24 days old and looking great with just that. I am just wondering why your using this method for incubating seems kinda weird looking explain please lol

[dr del]

Hi,

I used vermiculite with the eggs buried in it for all my clutches before this but noticed that the verm got a little too wet near the end of incubation beacuse of the constantly 100% humidity from the resevoir of water.

Since this wet substrate happens with the substrateless method as well I figured the idea of keeping the eggs suspended off the medium would solve it.

I then goofed with the method of achieving that.

If I had used the right type of grating from the start I think all would have been well.


dr del