depends on timeframe

Posted by nathan on June 10, 2002 at 13:43:44:

In Reply to: Re: Shell Deformity posted by EJ on June 09, 2002 at 14:04:44:

at one point in the incubation, high temperatures result in the baby becoming male or female... there's a determination made at that point... high temps for those few days alone will result in a female, low temps then, when the determination is made, followed by high temps later, will result in deformities.

I suspect that in rushing to get animals hatched for a show, people will cook them, so they can sell more hatchlings. This cooking, if it is done later, may give deformed males, but I would think it highly likely that people are using incubators of some type and have them set high the whole time, to have always shorter hatch periods.

I know I won't buy a malformed hatchling, though. I'd be afraid of future problems from the growth being altered. I had some eastern painteds that didn't seem to thrive, all 3 were mutated in some way.

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: at one point in the incubation, high temperatures result in the baby becoming male or female... there's a determination made at that point... high temps for those few days alone will result in a female, low temps then, when the determination is made, followed by high temps later, will result in deformities. : I suspect that in rushing to get animals hatched for a show, people will cook them, so they can sell more hatchlings. This cooking, if it is done later, may give deformed males, but I would think it highly likely that people are using incubators of some type and have them set high the whole time, to have always shorter hatch periods. : I know I won't buy a malformed hatchling, though. I'd be afraid of future problems from the growth being altered. I had some eastern painteds that didn't seem to thrive, all 3 were mutated in some way.

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