Early introductions

[SnakeAround]

I have 2 clutches 2go, one girl is almost 2 weeks past pre-lay shed... she drives me mad LOL She looks fine still, that's the most important

 

[bekers71]

Not sure how I missed this thread. But congrats on the beautiful eggs. Your girls are all gorgeous!

 

[diamondlil]

Not sure how I missed this thread. But congrats on the beautiful eggs. Your girls are all gorgeous!

Thanks Becky! Pearl, Annie, Belle and Kate have had their prelay sheds now, Polly is in blue.

 

[diamondlil]

And here's Annie showing what she really thought of the laybox she's been digging around in for the last week. She'd carefully pushed it away from the warm end of the viv so she could lay her eggs on dry substrate!

 

[diamondlil]

So out comes the laybox, and I find Annie curled around a clutch of 17 perfect eggs, no slugs. Luckily they hadn't dried out, so a nice drink for newly-skinny Annie and into the incubater for the eggs :dancer::dancer::dancer:

 

[diamondlil]

Sundance and Annie have both eaten a medium mouse. I'd though Annie had a retained egg, but on examination I think it's actually where her back end was swollen with the eggs, because the area feels so soft. I left for work last night very reluctantly, because Kate had started laying.....

 

[diamondlil]

So I got home this morning to find Kate coiled around a big clump of eggs. I just can't count them accurately, there are at least 25 though. I wanted them in the incubator without too much fussing so I'll have to think what to do, maybe mark each egg with a pencil as I count?

 

[bekers71]

LOL at Annie. I have one that took 2 days to lay her eggs because she kept putting them every where. Guess they just don't like the nice lay boxes we give some times. lol Beautiful eggs and they all look great. Congrats!

 

[cornmorphs]

nice big clutch Janine, excellent. look forward to pictures from the okeetee babies.

 

[diamondlil]

Hurrah! Another eggciting day! 12 monster eggs from Pearl this morning. She looks really deflated and was too tired to even try to bite me. I made sure she had a long drink, but left the laybox in for her in case she's going to lay some more.

 

[bekers71]

Wow! Pearl is one hot anery diffused! Congrats!

 

[RosieReal]

Wow! Pearl is one hot anery diffused! Congrats!

No kidding!! Beautiful girl!! Maybe a new one for the 'want' list...but its hard to take that list seriously, I'm starting to think I just want them all!
Congrats on all the eggies!

 

[diamondlil]

Thanks! No more laid by Pearl today, so I've checked her more thoroughly and I'm convinced she's finished laying. This is better than Easter!

 

[diamondlil]

Hurrah! I got in from work to find a very skinny Polly wrapped around 17 beautiful eggs!:dancer::dancer::dancer: She was covered iin peat from the laybox so I gave her a quick rinse off, helped her to a long drink of fresh water, then gave her a lovely fresh-killed (non)breeder mouse

 

[bekers71]

Another congrats to you! You're having better luck than me. I had yet another girl slug out a couple days ago.

 

[carnivorouszoo]

All gorgeous! Good luck with all your eggs

 

[desertanimal]

Yay! Congrats!

 

[diamondlil]

Thanks! I've spoken to my usual petshop mousicle supplier and got my wholesale deal confirmed for this year. So if I get a good hatch and survival rate this year the girls will be deserving silver platters to eat their mice off!

 

[diamondlil]

Good and bad news today. The incubator is behaving beautifully. I bought it from a woma breeder who was upgrading to a bigger one, so I am totally pleased my investment paid off. It's a full-size drinks fridge so my 6 clutches will only take up 1 shelf!
Ignore the dial thermometer, it's totally off in it's reading, using a digital one and my temp gun I'm getting consistent temps of 80-81 degrees no matter the room temperature so no cooking for my eggs this year!

 

[diamondlil]

And the bad news, a funky looking egg in Pearl's clutch. I won't take it out yet but it looks bad to me