Re: blue beauty eggs and manual pipping

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Posted by Walt Deptula on July 23, 2001 at 00:27:20:

In Reply to: blue beauty eggs and manual pipping posted by Ronda on July 22, 2001 at 21:02:54:

: This is my first year breeding blue beauties and I have a question regarding their eggs. The clutch I have was laid the last week of May, and they've been incubating at approximately 82. I read somewhere that because of their unusually tough shells, blue beauties sometimes will not pip. Has anyone else encountered this? If I were to cut an egg now, and the snake inside is alive, would it live within the cut egg until the time that it would naturally be ready to pip? Am I just being impatient?

: Thanks for any advice,
: Ronda

I have already emailed Ronda a detailed answer but for the sake of others who might face the same problem, I would suggest patience. Although I have no experience with incubation duration directly relating to BB's, I would suspect that at least one neonate would be capable of slitting on their own, signaling the others readiness. The time period still seems within normal bounds.

Regarding egg slitting, a small slit cut in a egg of which the animal is not prepared to exit, will do no harm whatsoever. If, within several days following intervention the snake is alive but yet unready to exit, the egg will simply "RESEAL" itself. I have slit eggs which resealed, I have had eggs leak from weak spots where they were separated at deposit, and I have even had two vertically positioned temporalis eggs go complete Humpty Dumpty on me (split in half, leaking egg material) and hatch with no problem. In fact, those two temporalis are now proven breeders.
Eggs will RESEAL themselves.

Walt Deptula

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: : : This is my first year breeding blue beauties and I have a question regarding their eggs. The clutch I have was laid the last week of May, and they've been incubating at approximately 82. I read somewhere that because of their unusually tough shells, blue beauties sometimes will not pip. Has anyone else encountered this? If I were to cut an egg now, and the snake inside is alive, would it live within the cut egg until the time that it would naturally be ready to pip? Am I just being impatient? : : Thanks for any advice, : : Ronda : I have already emailed Ronda a detailed answer but for the sake of others who might face the same problem, I would suggest patience. Although I have no experience with incubation duration directly relating to BB's, I would suspect that at least one neonate would be capable of slitting on their own, signaling the others readiness. The time period still seems within normal bounds. : Regarding egg slitting, a small slit cut in a egg of which the animal is not prepared to exit, will do no harm whatsoever. If, within several days following intervention the snake is alive but yet unready to exit, the egg will simply "RESEAL" itself. I have slit eggs which resealed, I have had eggs leak from weak spots where they were separated at deposit, and I have even had two vertically positioned temporalis eggs go complete Humpty Dumpty on me (split in half, leaking egg material) and hatch with no problem. In fact, those two temporalis are now proven breeders. : Eggs will RESEAL themselves. : Walt Deptula

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