good egg?

Bartman · 06-17-04, 12:13 PM

Im not sure if this egg looks okay as its my first one ever...its not as white as it looks in the picture, that was the flash, but its still not hard shelled like a chicken egg or anything..does that mean its to moist or is it dead?

I candled it, i think, and all i saw was pink...im not sure if i did it right..

its been at a very steady 84.4 for 10 days...

Rebecca · 06-17-04, 03:45 PM

Looks good to me.

asphyxia · 06-17-04, 03:53 PM

Same here^

Stockwell · 06-17-04, 04:05 PM

Looks good to me too

DragnDrop · 06-17-04, 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by Bartman
but its still not hard shelled like a chicken egg

That's a good thing. Leos lay soft shelled eggs which grow larger during incubation to accomodate the increasing size of the embryo. If the egg were hard, it would be either infertile, dead or doomed since it can't expand.

The egg pictured looks good to me. If you see at least a pink glow by day 10, it should be fertile. Sometimes the pink is visible the day they're laid, other times it takes as much as 2 weeks. It all depends on how long the female retained the eggs before laying and to some extent on how warm she was (development could be more advanced if she was warmer while gravid).