A bit of a sucky season

[yommy]

Don't know if i am the only one but i've gone from 99-100% success rates for many seasons to an absolute sh**ty result this year. All eggs were viable and well veined at the time of laying.

Went from 14 Albino Darwins eggs (7 were wrapped 7 weren't) so didn't hold much hope for those 7 and was proved correct down now to 4 left. with 1 looking dodgey,

11 viable woma eggs down to 2, (out of everything i really wanted a good result with the womas more then anything else)

and from 2 clutches of chilreni lost 1 clutch.

I have incubated this season on perlite, verlicumite and H20 method with no incubator problems or flulations at all.
It has just been one of those seasons. Joys of a biological hobby.

Can't complain as it is looking good for all remaining eggs in the incubator. Just have never experienced a season like this before.

Has anyone else had a mixed season???

i've included some pic of the last 'bad' darwin egg. I thought i would cut it open to see what had happened. It was about 1/2 way through with this egg. Interesting pictures, when eggs go bad they go to a solid jelly state inside dis-colour and go mouldy on the out side. Interesting pics though.

Enjoy....... Hope everyone is having a better season then i

 

[Jk888]

damm man bad luck but they joys of this particular hobby better luck next season mate =D

 

[yommy]

thats the beauty of it, evaluate everything done this season and approve on it next. Not that i would do much differently anyway just one of those years

 

[byron_moses]

sorry to hear mate have heard of alot of people having trouble this year

 

[smeejason]

sorry to hear buddy but at least you got eggs i missed with them completely...

 

[Wild~Touch]

Unbeleivable bad luck, especially when you do everything "right", sorry to hear
Cheers
Sandee

 

[Greenmad]

Hey yommy i had a whole clutch of womas laid with small veins and after two weeks all gone, but did have 100% for gtps and another clutch of womas.

 

[No-two]

Womas must be bad for everyone. I had a clutch of topaz come out with weak veins and die quite soon afterwards, and another clutch of tanami that were similar.

 

[pythons73]

Thinking you have done alright with the females being gravid,then the egg laying,and it all goes terribly wrong in the incubation period...That defiantly would be a sad occassion for that to happen...Things like this happen all the time,but its worse when its urself....Better luck next season..

 

[MR_IAN_DAVO]

sorry to hear buddy but at least you got eggs i missed with them completely...

+1 looks like all I may get is i clutch of carpets, & I have heard of many reputable breeders in QLD are down very much in breeding no's.

 

[pythons73]

+1 looks like all I may get is i clutch of carpets, & I have heard of many reputable breeders in QLD are down very much in breeding no's.

One good thing is, there wont be thousands of unwanted reptiles...Ive noticed ALOT of people are having troubles selling some of there reptiles...This time of year also,Chrissy time NOT MANY wanna spend $$$ on reptiles...

 

[AM Pythons]

46 eggs layed so far.. 22 slugs, all is going good with incubation atm, trying the no-substrate(water method) this year with all eggs... fingers crossed...

 

[Mangles]

1 fertile egg from my Woma which hatched fine.

11 good looking egss from my patternless Childreni, but only 7 healthy hatchlings. 3 slit the eggs themselves but never came out and died in the eggs. I pipped another 2, and one of these hatched fine, with the second one not coming out for another day and a half and had a kinked spine.

Spotteds did not go this year, not sure why.

looks like Iam not the only one in SE Qld that have had problems.

 

[montay]

Thanks for publishing your pictures - it is great to learn from all of this.

 

[deebo]

im getting paranoid now.....will be checking on my eggs everyday now!

Hopefully better luck next year for you yommy! Shame about the womas mate.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[SCam]

Yeh I didn't have much luck this season with my tanami woma either.
It was her 1st season and when she laid them she seemed to reject them n knock them around.
then when i candled them, they were half veined..
10 days or so later they went all smelly, mouldy n jelly on the inside.
I'm thinkin that she knew it was a bad lot of eggs

 

[Waterrat]

Yommy, I am sorry about your losses.
Me thinking: the eggs were fertile but didn't pull through. There has to be some nutritional deficiency on the female's side. I am always dubious about snakes that had been fed monotypic, defrosted food all their lives, just like my obsession about feeding pinkies to hatchlings. Both are totally unnatural food sources that wild pythons would never meet in the bush, not to mention eating them .... but we keep feeding them crap because it's convenient to us. Would I enjoy live having to live on food from my freezer and nothing else?

That does not reflect on you yommy, I don't know what your snakes are on. Just making a general comment.

 

[pythons73]

So saying that Michael,whats our options in regard to feeding hatchies...If pinkie mice are a unnatural food source for hatchie Chondros,what is there to replace the pinkies...We use mice-rats-quails-chickens etc as there readily available...Just like hatchie BHPs etc,they eat lizards etc,but owners-breeders are NOT going to go out in the bush to collect them to feed to their hatchies,are they...So the next best thing to do is use rodents etc as when the hatchies are older,they wont need to worry about changing the food item...

 

[Snakewise84]

ok im thinking about doing some research about this. just a thought but what if it had something to do with the weather alot more cause we have gone for dough to 3 weeks of down poor. this yeah i have not felt much humidity in the compared to the last few years. this is just a thought.

 

[Jungle_Freak]

Don't know if i am the only one but i've gone from 99-100% success rates for many seasons to an absolute sh**ty result this year. All eggs were viable and well veined at the time of laying.

Went from 14 Albino Darwins eggs (7 were wrapped 7 weren't) so didn't hold much hope for those 7 and was proved correct down now to 4 left. with 1 looking dodgey,

11 viable woma eggs down to 2, (out of everything i really wanted a good result with the womas more then anything else)

and from 2 clutches of chilreni lost 1 clutch.

I have incubated this season on perlite, verlicumite and H20 method with no incubator problems or flulations at all.
It has just been one of those seasons. Joys of a biological hobby.

Can't complain as it is looking good for all remaining eggs in the incubator. Just have never experienced a season like this before.

Has anyone else had a mixed season???

i've included some pic of the last 'bad' darwin egg. I thought i would cut it open to see what had happened. It was about 1/2 way through with this egg. Interesting pictures, when eggs go bad they go to a solid jelly state inside dis-colour and go mouldy on the out side. Interesting pics though.

Enjoy....... Hope everyone is having a better season then i

Yommy
I had a season like that last year .
Not a good thing for sure .
This year is better but not 100%
I put it down to bad luck .
We can only try our best.

Roger