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Starry Eggs question . . .

Drizzt80

Drizzt80

Dakota Corns
Had my first clutch of really starry eggs today. I've had some limited 'starring' of eggs before, but this one is the most starred I've had. Question is, anyone else notice if they are less 'sticky' than 'normal' eggs? This clutch did not stick together at all. I'm not worried about fertility really, just curious about the non-stickiness.

D80

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Cant help to much but We had a clutch a few weeks ago like that and did not stick at all they were all separate. I candled them and they all look good
 
Pumilio said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what's "starring"?
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Those little white specs all over the eggs. It's seems as though the calcium in the eggs doesn't spread out over the entire shell, and looks like little stars covering the surface of the egg.

D80
 
Yeah, my snowflake eggs don't adhere together much at all. The hatchlings out of them seem just fine, though, although I did have one clutch this year have a hard time cutting the eggs in a snowflake clutch, so I pipped them all.
 
Connie was it you or someone else that made a thread about snowflaking in eggs. well I'd say find that and post the link in here. that might help them a lil.
 
Had these horrible articles appear last year - not stuck together at all.

There are 2 obvious slugs but of the remaining 18, 13 survived to hatching and produced some of the most strapping hatchlings I've ever had.
 

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Well anyway i remember some one in here making a thread about understanding them. and they said it wasn't calcium related. and that most hatchlings will survive. I think its just random and it happens.
 
Baba-Lou said:
Well anyway i remember some one in here making a thread about understanding them. and they said it wasn't calcium related. and that most hatchlings will survive. I think its just random and it happens.
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Indications that it isn't calcium related as far as diet goes, but it does appear to be the calcium within the egg that creates the stars. I agree this could be linked to that thread, and I probably should have posted it in that thread, but really was just looking to see about the 'stickiness' of the eggs as I'd already been through all the 'what ifs' and 'how abouts' with Hurley during chat one night.

Thanks for the responses and it appears that they (meaning 'starred' eggs) aren't sticky.
D80
 
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