Woma eggs cooking
The gravid woma laid at last. She had a clutch of 8 eggs. One she had pushed out of the pile, so it may not be viable, but I have good hopes for the others at this point.
I just hope I work the incubation conditions properly this time and can successfully hatch them all. Last time I had trouble during incubation and out of a beautiful clutch of 11 eggs, I hatched two babies. I’m attempting to correct mistakes I made that time and hope for much better success this season.
On a less cheerful note, the jungle carpet clutch looks like crap. I don’t know how many, if any, of them are going to go full term. The female that produced the clutch has in the past always laid good eggs with over 90% hatch rate.
Last year and this year I used a new male, and both clutches have had low viability. My initial thoughts were the male is probably at fault, but the female is getting older, she’s about 11 years old now. I’m still leaning toward the male being the issue.
I’m going to work with the clutch as best I can, but I’m afraid it is out of my control completely. We’ll just have to wait and see what develops.
Clay :: Apr.26.2009 :: The Collection ::
