Cal King egg oddity???

[Tim_Cranwill]

My female is in her egg laying box about to lay anyday. So I thought I'd check on her and I found this just outside of her egg laying box. It's a very long, very mushy egg from what I can tell. Has anyone seen something like this before?
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~cranwill/net_pics/calkingegg_01.jpg

[Stockwell]

Yeah, I've seen it alright...
That's a slug, or infertile ova. It's very common
in both colubrids and boids to not have complete feritlity in clutches and litters.
When spermatozoa doesn't meet egg, that's what happens.
Hopefully your entire clutch won't be slugs!

[Tim_Cranwill]

Yeah, I figured it was a slug but the slugs I've gotten from my corns are a lot more solid. Hmmm... I guess there's always more to learn! :)

Thanks Roy!

[Zoe]

I believe it is because the egg shell was not calcified (or to a lesser extent), which is why it was expelled earlier and is soft and misshapen.

Good luck with the rest of the clutch!
Zoe

[Stockwell]

It actually looks like it may have ruptured on the way out, and that could explain the less than full appearance.This happens occasionally as slugs never get properly shelled. It's also simply possible that the shell was not fully loaded with yolk. I can't clearly see, but what is that yellow substance? Is that uric acid or the partial contents of the egg, that has spilled out.
You see all kinds of weird things in snake eggs, especially colubrids more than Pythonidae.
I had a hognose egg laid this week that had two shells on it. One full shell , then a folded in half "extra" shell stuck around about half the outside...The egg is fertile and should hatch.
Sometimes there are more shells than yolks it would appear...pretty strange, but it keeps interesting!
Regards