Hello everyone. After an extensive amount of time spend learning everything there is to learn about breeding BP, I hatched my first clutch on Sept 6th 2019. I wanted to thank everyone on this forum for helping me along this journey, I couldnt have done it without the expertise of the awesome people on here. The mom turned out 6 good eggs in which 3 hatched and survived. All three have been sexed/eating well and I am now moving onto my second season breeding, I couldnt be more excited.
Now, I prided myself before starting this endeavour to know everything I could before starting it as I thought it to be irresponsible and cruel to "figure it out as I go". I hate that mentality, especially when dealing with a living creature. I see it far to often on the internet. At no point during this did I feel I was in over my head or didnt know the answer to the next step in the process.
I've waiting a few months to ask this mostly because of how bad I feel about it (even though I know its nature) but I lost 3 of those eggs. After pulling them out they look to have gone full term, no birth defects and nothing I could tell went wrong in the incubation process. Temps were stable, no mold, condensation or accidents. Here's were I think I may have failed. I had two of the eggs pip overnight on me (Sun). I was leaving Monday to go camping and wouldnt return until the Wednesday. When I had returned home one more baby pipped and one had fully crawled out of her egg. The three eggs that didnt pip were all died. If I had cut all the eggs after the first had pipped (which my instincts were telling me to do) would they have survived? The only thing I can think of is they drowned in the eggs. That felt bad to say. I have also seen videos online of people cutting eggs before one even pips (very reputable breeders might I add). How do they know? How can you be so sure that the eggs dont need another few days to develop? This year I will be cutting the entire clutch when the first one pips but what do you guys thing?
Thanks in advance
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