How to care for eggs after you cut them

[dr del]

Hi,

from my understanding cutting any veins at that point is not going to kill the snake by any means. now cutting the animal yes, but a little blood in the amnionic fluid is nothing to worry about. cutting a vein would only create a bloody mess.

correct me if I'm wrong though.


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Cutting a small minor vein isn't generally a problem.

Cutting the larger ones however certainly could be. Cutting more than one definately would be a bad idea.

That blood is the animals blood - bigger veins take longer to close up and lose blood faster.

They are small enough for blood loss to be a major problem if you just hack away at the egg without paying enough attention.

I always candle the eggs first and draw the larger veins on the shell with a dull pencil or mark out an area with very few major veins so I can cut with a fair amount of reassurance. I still make a pigs ear of it but at least it is just ugly instead of dangerous.


dr del