I understand — I had 4 clutches last year. The first one was 8 healthy eggs, and only 1 baby ended up surviving and he’s... very odd. Has a few deformities (skull is oddly shaped, small kink by his vent) but he’s thriving now.
The other babies had worse issues, most dying before they left the egg.
Luckily my other three clutches did well, besides a couple babies suddenly dying after hatching out and after taking their first meals. I suspect just a failure to thrive for those ones.
This year so far, out of 5 females, only 1 seems to be developing follicles. I feel 5 follicles in her, and they’re about half dollar sized so I’m sure she’ll ovulate soon.
There’s a couple that aren’t developing at all, and a couple I’m not sure about yet. Just gotta
give them more time I suppose.
I also bred my hognose girl, last year she laid 7 good eggs, 1 went bad, second clutch was all slugs — this year she slugged out both clutches. Sometimes breeding isn’t always successful and great, a lot of breeders don’t talk about the downsides to it and the fact that there’s always a chance of there being issues no matter what you do.
I think you’re doing great, and I’m crossing my fingers for you that this clutch hatches out some healthy babies!
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