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Second year breed

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desire

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This is the second year that we are breeding last year was with a snow female and a normal corn. Being new at the game ran around at the last minute and had an unsuccessful clutch.

This year we have an albeno corn female with the same male (normal corn). We only got the female in early October 2012, so waited until the 10th November to introduce the two, it was a quick romance to say the least, within the morning they had hooked up, well she started laying yesterday morning around 10am (SA time) there must be about 17 eggs, the last one ariving at around 4am this morning, it is currently 07:20, there however appears to still be one that she just does not want to pass (if this is the right word)

I am not sure how long we can leave her and the eggs before we attempt to remove and incubate and how can she be helped to bring down the last as it has been about 3 and half hours since the last egg appeared.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!
 
I take the eggs as soon as the female is done laying. Just let her rest and don't disturb her a lot so she can work on passing the eggs. Sometimes they have to be removed by a vet and other times they will work them down themselves. Best of luck with it.
 
As Bob has Stated.

The Less stress your female deals with...the better.

As far as to when you should Act... if they remaining egg hasn't moved ANY within 48hrs, a vet may be needed.
 
Success and failure - second year breed update
We were unfortunate to loose the female, and were very doubtful about the eggs hatching as I had to cut the eggs loose from each other, the membrane was still around them. Well the good news is, on the 21st of March 3 little critters appeared in the container that we had housed the eggs, just in case. I am currently waiting for the last to shed and will be attemting to feed these little terrors for the first time this week... such a surprise.
 
For future reference, there is no need to separate the eggs from each other. Sorry you lost your girl, but congrats on the babies!
 
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