That's terrible news, I feel for you manOriginally Posted by Godzilla78
Well bad news. The whole clutch went bad. It was obviously more than just mold, it was some sort of bacteria or fungus as well that spread among the attached eggs.
The other clutches of eggs are totally fine. It is a bit frustrating and disappointing, as I am still not sure why this happened to this particular clutch and not the others. I will definitely really extremely cautious when I am setting up incubation tubs from now on, and make sure to keep everything sterile.
The bad clutch was firefly pied x het pied ... 8 eggs.
3 other clutches are doing perfectly fine. Good luck breeders!Would of been a really nice clutch too. Not that it will make you feel any better, but I think it's more common than people talk about here to lose a clutch, sometimes things just go wrong and it's out of your hands. I doubt there was anything you could of done to save them. It's possible it could of just been a bad clutch too, and it would of happened no matter what. I have a friend that has quite a few clutches every year and last year it just seemed like he had really bad luck, lost a few clutches with no apparent reason. They all looked good when laying but for whatever reason they went bad. He had others setup exactly the same and in the incubator at the same time that hatched perfectly but for who knows what reason, some of them just went bad.
Don't let it get you down. Focus on the remaining clutches your lucky enough to have and I'm sure you'll still end up hatching some awesome babies. You're far ahead of me so far, I have been lucky enough not to have any serious problems the last couple years of breeding but this year I can't even get a clutch laid lol. Good luck with the rest of your clutches, I can't wait to see what you hatch out.
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