egg bins, could they not be fertile?

[mary prefontaine]

My male and female were only together for about 20 minutes, and did breed, is it possible all these eggs she layed are not even fertile? I went and put the eggs into laying bins anyway with moist vermicilite and covered them and put them in my drawer. How long before, should I begin setting up the nursery? and when should i begin looking for the eggs to hatch? will they start moving? Im just misting the pans for now and the eggs are only halfway buried, is that ok? And no one explained that she would lay again and again lol. Oopsy I had taken the laying bin out. Should the laying bin be left in there forever now? Yes its back in there and she's layed more eggs. She layed her first set of eggs on febuary 28th and her next set around may 2nd. I figure around august 20th-28th I should begin watching closely to see if the eggs will hatch. Now if they are not fertile, when will they show signs of going bad? I already removed 4-6 browned eggs. are those the non-fertile ones? A hundred questions and hopefully a few answers, thanks peeps.

 

[ChameleonRave]

Yes, she can and can't be fertile. Humans can create a little human in less than that time. It does take about 6+ months until they do hatch.

 

[reptoman]

Fertile eggs are usually nice and white with infertiles being yellowish. If they are not fertile they will usually mold over in 2 weeks after being layed. Pictures of the eggs would help determining if they are fertile or not.

 

[samelgert]

Im no expert but I'm pretty sure the time it takes to hatch depends on the breed. But it should take anywhere from 6-9 months.

 

[mary prefontaine]

yellowish in color

Well i found that one of my containers had all yellowish colored eggs. These were dropped by the female and im assuming their not fertile. While the others shown in forefront of picture 4172 were whiter and layed the same day. I hate to throw the eggs out, as its been around 3 months since she layed them and they are not rotting. But you say yellowish eggs may be a sign of non fertilizing? I think I will throw these out and save the nice white ones. I hope I end up with some fertile healthy babies. But youre telling me the white ones im seeing would have yellowed or rotted by now if they were not fertile correct? That would leave me with around 10 or so healthy eggs so far. What is the average amount of actual babies born in a clutch of around 50 or more?

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[mary prefontaine]

yellowish in color

Well i found that one of my containers had all yellowish colored eggs. These were dropped by the female and im assuming their not fertile. While the others shown in forefront of picture 4172 were whiter and layed the same day. I hate to throw the eggs out, as its been around 3 months since she layed them and they are not rotting. But you say yellowish eggs may be a sign of non fertilizing? I think I will throw these out and save the nice white ones. I hope I end up with some fertile healthy babies. But youre telling me the white ones im seeing would have yellowed or rotted by now if they were not fertile correct?

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/mitzi1956/IMG_4172.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/mitzi1956/IMG_4169.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/mitzi1956/IMG_4171.jpg
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[robmd1]

if they are infertile they can mold over in a few week but they can also go for months an months before molding over. the best way people always talk about is leave em be, if an when they mold over then throw em out not before.

 

[mary prefontaine]

ok

ya i guess theres no harm don by leaving them be.