Found a pair of new eggs from one of my females, went to pop them in the egg bin and what on earth is that hanging out of that 58 day old egg?
That is a tail. and a pair of rear feet.
Oh dear.
I really gently pick up the egg and it's obvious this happened a bit ago. The limbs are translucent and filled with blood that can't be circulated. The tail is twitching. The back legs twitch ever so slightly when touched. I gently open the egg, hoping for the best (because there's no patching this one) and... no, the embryo's detached, the lungs aren't fully formed and everything is still visible within the gecko. Dorsal coloring is just coming in. You can see the eye sockets in the eyes still. They're huge and fixed and there's absolutely no blood moving within the animal.
This was out of one of two tiny eggs somebody laid and I suspect the eggs just aren't large enough to allow the geckos to go to full term, but I decided to give them a shot anyway. There's stretch marks just 58 days in and I don't have high hopes for the other one either. Anybody want science! pictures if the other one aborts too?
I'm bummed, don't get me wrong, but this kinda stuff happens when you raise critters.
That is a tail. and a pair of rear feet.
Oh dear.
I really gently pick up the egg and it's obvious this happened a bit ago. The limbs are translucent and filled with blood that can't be circulated. The tail is twitching. The back legs twitch ever so slightly when touched. I gently open the egg, hoping for the best (because there's no patching this one) and... no, the embryo's detached, the lungs aren't fully formed and everything is still visible within the gecko. Dorsal coloring is just coming in. You can see the eye sockets in the eyes still. They're huge and fixed and there's absolutely no blood moving within the animal.
This was out of one of two tiny eggs somebody laid and I suspect the eggs just aren't large enough to allow the geckos to go to full term, but I decided to give them a shot anyway. There's stretch marks just 58 days in and I don't have high hopes for the other one either. Anybody want science! pictures if the other one aborts too?
I'm bummed, don't get me wrong, but this kinda stuff happens when you raise critters.
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