Hi Yommy - yes, day 55 for pipping again, but day 56 for emerging.
hi Mungus - I didn't separate my first clutch, but one egg died and got mouldy. I had to cut it away from the egg mass and apply tinea powder. Now I separate if possible and have not lost another egg.
Thanks to everyone for the encouraging comments. This morning was even more exciting. I moved 4 babies to click clicks, but only removed 3 empty eggs.
Yep, we have twins! Given that the lightest hatchling so far is 27 grams, I am very interested to see the size of those remaining in the egg. I was worried about one baby last night as it had emerged halfway and wasn't moving much, but it is mostly in the egg and much perkier today. My most caved in egg hadn't had a head poking out and that had me worried, but it is out and looking around today. Everything is going great. I will have to put the hatching click clack onto a heat pad as an extra, since I only set up enough click clicks for single occupancy eggs. I like that kind of problem!
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Well - it's all over. This is like Christmas, but spread over several days (maybe Hannukah?).
I was wrong about a twin egg. The egg was just full of extra white and a bit of blood which made it look pink when I peered in without my glasses
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Here is the sight I saw after work at 5:30:
Can anyone guess how many in my hand?
I looked over my results for the past couple of years and there is a clear increase in both the number of eggs and average hatchling mass as my girl gets larger. Her first clutch averaged 24 grams (there were twins, which brings it down a bit), the next was 26g and this one was 28g. Next year she will probably have a rest.