First Time Cutting Eggs

[frankykeno]

Is it okay if I just lay a sleeping bag down in the snake room and never leave? This isn't being obsessive or anything is it?

Thanks again Kara for your help with the egg cutting. Your instructions really did help make it go so well and keep me from freaking out too much (okay I freaked a little, it's my first time! )

Mike's sleeping and missed the head out bit so I'm really hoping they do it again tonight so he can see this before he heads out to work. What a rush! We have real life snake beebee's!!!!

[dr del]

Congrats!

Now would be the perfect time to make sure the camera works perfectly, there are spare batteries, photobucket hasn't run out of room etc.

Just sayin.


dr del

[gncz73]

who's the daddy Jo

[SPJ]

Don't hit any veins..check the other topic!
Just take your time.

No kidding!

Congrats on them!

[frankykeno]

Congrats!

Now would be the perfect time to make sure the camera works perfectly, there are spare batteries, photobucket hasn't run out of room etc.

Just sayin.


dr del

Wish it was just time for a brand new camera but the old one is chugging along and will do for now.

who's the daddy Jo

I'll be sure once I see these snakes out of the eggs Gene. It could be Becky's lemon line pastel or our yellowbelly male. Momma snake would have had to retain sperm through her quarantine period though for it to be the pastel's offspring so I'm figuring it's the yb. Two of the babies are quite a lot lighter though than the others I can spy through the cuts I made but then heck I've never seen either a YB or a Pastel right at hatching so what do I know. (gawd I hate this newb feeling LOL)

[JLC]

Joanna...I'm SO excited for you I could just about bust!! Regardless of what the genetics turn out to be, I can't wait to see pics of those beautiful healthy babies!!!

[JASBALLS]

This is what I peeked in and saw not 20 minutes ago.







Somebody wanted to come out and say hi!

I watched the one with it's head out and it easily slid it back in so hopefully we made the holes big enough the second time around (thanks again Wes!).

Nice, Looks like a 1.2 yb 1.0 normal... Good luck

[Entropy]

That's awesome Jo!!! Congrats on your first eggs!!!!!!!

[muddoc]

One thing about tiny holes, though yours do look big enough, is that ball python heads are so wide they can poke their heads out but not get them back in if the holes are too small possibly leading to choking and stress.

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Wes,
I was curious as to if you have ever experienced this before. I only ask because I have let eggs pip on their own sometimes, and they barely make a hole big enough to get their head out. Then once their head is out, it looks like it could never get it back in, but low and behold a bit later, they are back in the egg. I have witnessed small tears in the egg around the cut, since the egg is pretty soft at this stage.

[wilomn]

Wes,
I was curious as to if you have ever experienced this before. I only ask because I have let eggs pip on their own sometimes, and they barely make a hole big enough to get their head out. Then once their head is out, it looks like it could never get it back in, but low and behold a bit later, they are back in the egg. I have witnessed small tears in the egg around the cut, since the egg is pretty soft at this stage.

I have had it happen. Not often but more than once. You watch the little bugger squirming and wiggling and see it pulling its head back, but not going inside the egg. It may have been in eggs that self pipped I don't recall.

I used to buy gravid females and then hatch out the babies a loooong time ago and I also bred a few of my own but I don't recall where I saw it, just that I did. I don't remember if I ever had one die from it, but being stuck that way and getting panicked could lead to choking. At least it seems that way to me.