crestie baby

[perefalcon]

well, I've been patiently waiting 2 whole months for my cresties to hatch...they were due July 6th...on my mom's birthday. Well, no one popped out and I did notice that the eggs never really grew...well, yesterday I went to check on the eggs like I have been the past week and opened the lid and noticed one of the eggs was moist and smelled funny....first thought, "OH SNAP" (other words came out of course). So I ran the egg to the reptile room and busted it open with a pair of tweezers, the egg sounded like construction paper when ripped.....baby was fully formed and dead...yolk wasn't attached, no little cord to the belly...all gone...so to be on the safe side i busted the other egg open too...and out popped this bouncy little nut...a little smaller than it's clutchmate and lighter, but still alive right now...I even got it to drink a little...it'll be closely monitored for the next month. I asked both Steph and Jen of JS Rhacs...their opinion was that the egg was overcalcified and the baby couldn't break through...good info if it ever happens again.

Now, this is officially my first Crestie hatchling, and you can't see it well from the pics, but it's a harley...I can see the markings close to it's back legs on both sides...I took the pics after I misted it a bit. Little one is sitting right next to me in it's container so I can keep an eye on it...So here it is, if I end up keeping it...I'll keep up it's lineage name and give it an adams family name
Mom:Thing (my avatar)
Dad:Cousin It

I just got another clutch from this pair too...hope it's fertile, doesn't look like it's overly thick like these eggs were.

[Bill22]

That first pic all most makes him look like you can see through him!? i'v seen this befor but that was on eggs that popped to early and died, and the baby was under developed.

[Wil19b85]

Hope everything else works out for you, and best of luck to the little guy!

[Jaybee]

I'm not sure I understand, when you say you were waiting two months for the eggs to hatch, does that mean two months from laying date? Because I thought that 60 days was just about the bare minimum of time it takes for eggs to hatch. I know the one egg went bad, but was there something wrong with the other?

[KiKi]

very cute baby jill good luck with it

[IndyCrestie]

"two whole months" is actually really really quick. Crestie eggs can take up to 4 months to hatch, usually more like 3 though.

That baby looks really underdeveloped. I hope it survives.

[perefalcon]

it was at day 61 that I broke open the egg, and the baby had no yolk left and no "cord" attached to it, as soon as the egg was open a little, bouncy shot out like a bullet and squirmin all over the place, as for its color, that pic is from today, yesterday it was much darker, nearly red. But I didn't want to lose both babies, this one seemed more than ready to pop out...I can only imagine how much I would have been upset had this one died in the shell as well. It's size looks about normal to me, nearly 2 inches long from nose to the tip of it's tail...all the babies I've ever seen were about the same.

Right now, the baby is halfway up a cut piece of vine....kinda starin at me lol

and it did lick a little bit of food too...I put some in front of it, just to see and it stuck that little tongue out...didn't seem to happy about it though

[Bill22]

well one of my old lession's learned was never cut the egg open let nature take its cource and let him come out on his owne! atleast let it open and if it take a long while then maybe help him out but dont just open a unready egg. i belive even when its ready it will pop weather the baby dies or not? corrct me if im wrong.

[perefalcon]

now you're getting into a moral arguement...and if I say what's going thru my mind right now........nevermind, I will not be drawn into it...

did anyone see where I said there was no yolk and the baby had no cord attached to it? That applied to the one that's alive as well

oh and that pic was taken in full sun...the baby doesn't look transparent in person

[4minters]

Jill, maybe you can post another picture where the baby looks more colored up. I know that was the first thing I thought too, premie! I don't cut open eggs myself but I don't owe it to any moral dilemma. I just choose to wait and see. All of mine have either collapsed and molded or hatched. I have never had the concern that I could open the egg and save the baby. I will help a baby that has pipped and stopped though I have yet to have one of those come out alive. I don't know for sure, but I don't think that the yolk being detached has anything to do with maturity. I would think if the yolk were used up, that would lean towards post mature but detached sounds more like just a development problem. NOTE-I don't know that for sure, just gut reaction. Anyway, best of luck with the baby and try not to get too offended. All the different points of view are what makes these forums such a great source of info. Post an updated pic when you get a minute.