POLL: What was your success rate in 2007?

[Inferno]

2 females both produced for me last year, the prooven breeder had 8 eggs 8 hatched and the first time girl had 5 eggs 1 had to be drained whilst still inside her and one went bad the other 3 hatched great so not bad for my first year with balls

[Ginevive]

Here was mine:

-Normal female x Pastel male 1: 8 out of 8 eggs hatched successfully. 6 Pastels, 2 Normals.

-Normal female x Pastel 2: 4 out of 4 eggs hatched successfully. 1 Pastel, 3 Normals.

-Normal x Normal: lost the entire clutch (first one of the year) when my crappy Hovabator crashed and cooked the eggs after a power outage. Lost 8 eggs that had candled well and were promising. learned.. made my incubator myself using Flexwatt, a Helix, and styro cooler.. got the great hatchlings above.

[Emilio]

Here was mine:

-Normal female x Pastel male 1: 8 out of 8 eggs hatched successfully. 6 Pastels, 2 Normals.

-Normal female x Pastel 2: 4 out of 4 eggs hatched successfully. 1 Pastel, 3 Normals.

-Normal x Normal: lost the entire clutch (first one of the year) when my crappy Hovabator crashed and cooked the eggs after a power outage. Lost 8 eggs that had candled well and were promising. learned.. made my incubator myself using Flexwatt, a Helix, and styro cooler.. got the great hatchlings above.

Jen how big was the girl that produced the 8 eggs for you?

[munding]

2 females both produced for me last year, the prooven breeder had 8 eggs 8 hatched and the first time girl had 5 eggs 1 had to be drained whilst still inside her and one went bad the other 3 hatched great so not bad for my first year with balls

drained??? how?? thank you

[Inferno]

drained??? how?? thank you

using a fairly large (14G) hypodermic needle and a steady hand. it was one of the most stressful times of my life as it was my favorite girl lol

[Ginevive]

Jen how big was the girl that produced the 8 eggs for you?

She's normally around 2500-odd grams.

[firehop]

Well for me it kinda so far so good. I have a cluth of 4 and another of 7 in the incubator. I have anothe 3 that are gravid, I think out of 12 that I attempted. This is only my second season with balls but next year I will have potentially 35-40 females that will be ready so I need all the experiance I can get.

[broadude]

I said 80% - 100%

I attempted 11 girls 10 became gravid. 9 have successfully laid their clutches without mishap. I am waiting on the 10th to drop her clutch (bred her late) and the 11th fooled me (I mistook a building for ovulation).

10 Clutches hatched successfully of varying numbers and 2 hatchlings lost.

Clutches comprise:
Albinos
Pastels
Mojaves
1 Bumblebee
1 Pewter
a few Normals
Paradox (deceased)
Pastel (deceased)

[Larry Suttles]

I'd say I'm in the low 40's as per females bred to females that laid. Keep your eye out for the great snow storm on 08/09 though!

[Wh00h0069]

I said 80% - 100%

I attempted 11 girls 10 became gravid. 9 have successfully laid their clutches without mishap. I am waiting on the 10th to drop her clutch (bred her late) and the 11th fooled me (I mistook a building for ovulation).

10 Clutches hatched successfully of varying numbers and 2 hatchlings lost.

Clutches comprise:
Albinos
Pastels
Mojaves
1 Bumblebee
1 Pewter
a few Normals
Paradox (deceased)
Pastel (deceased)

Wow, sounds like you had a very nice year. Sorry to hear about the two that were deceased. I actually had 90% rate. I bred 3 males two 10 females and received 9 viable clutes.