Eggs not fully formed

[syxxx]

Looking for a little advice, my Woma laid 11 eggs last sunday (6 Days ago) two of the eggs had not fully formed at one end and are left with only a membrane to cover an area nearly the size of a five cent piece, one of these eggs died but the other one has blood vessels which you can easily see. On the last check a little ooze had escaped from this egg. Has anyone incubated an egg like this full term?

 

[Scleropages]

I have had a few jungle eggs like that , the end bit started to grow mold( had to be cleaned each week) , but it hatched ok

 

[Waterrat]

If it starts oozing, it will most probably go of soon after. I wonder if a spray of plastic skin (the pharmaceutical stuff) would help to strengthen the surface. I have never tried it , just a thought.

 

[syxxx]

I like the idea of the spray on skin, I might try and get some of this and move it to its own tub in case it does go mouldy, thanks for the help.

 

[snakelady-viper]

Brian Barnett from Victoria has a paper out on this he has incubated an opened egg anything is worth a try maybe a little piece od cling wrap on that end But I do like the plastic skin listerine is good for mould

 

[kawasakirider]

I can't find the full paper, but here's a link that talks a bit about it. Down the page a bit you can see an egg with a window cut into it. It was incubated like that and you could see the snake develop inside. The paper that is specifically about it has tons of pics and info.

Incubation of snake eggs.

 

[Smithers]

Tinea powder I hear also for mould on eggs. Good luck

 

[JungleGuy]

here is anouther link about incubation of an open egg, hope it helps and there are other links at the bottom of the page.
Captive breeding and a novel egg incubation technique of the Childrens Python Liasis childreni
Tim

 

[kawasakirider]

That's the one I was after!

 

[syxxx]

Thanks for the links, the article was a good read as was the one on breeding Scrubs. I'll let you know how it all ends up tomorrow.

Not alot to report the strange egg is still alive but I haven't had a chance to get hold of spray on skin.

 

[syxxx]

Well we are at day 27 and the egg in question is still alive. It has now oozed maybe half a tea spoon and has grown mould. First off I tried listerine but this did not seem to help. So I tried tinea powder and again this was no good. I think this was due to rather than the mould being caused by too much moisture it was caused by the ooze breaking down/ dying. I have used a coles brand dettol dilluted and this has cleaned up the mould. I know Dettol is not to be used on some animals but so far it hasn't killed the egg, but I dont think the egg is 100% due to the mould/ breaking down ooze problem persisting for two weeks. Any advice would be welcome as these are my first snake eggs. The incubator is running at 30.5-31 degrees 97% humidity with a tiny bit of condensation on the container wall. Fingers Crossed.

 

[yommy]

Tinea powder I hear also for mould on eggs. Good luck

works a treat but use the fungicide one not the bacteria one. light dust and you good to go...........

if a woma egg is going to go off it will go quickly the fact you 1/2 way through is a good sign..... keep up the effort and you should be rewarded for your efforts.

 

[Fantazmic]

How would you know the egg is actually gone.....I mean it is oozing and growing mould......how would you know it is actually dead....does it smell..change colour.......(sorry newbie here and just curious the more I read the more I find out for if I decide to ahve baby snakes)

Elizabeth

 

[syxxx]

Sorry for a slow reply, in this case it is pretty easy as you can still see nice red blood vessels, but yes at 30 degrees a dead egg does not take long to smell and go pretty bad hence I am checking on this egg every second day.

Yommy my biggest concern is not loosing the egg at this stage it is on hatching that it is not deformed or cant survive leaving the egg but fingers crossed not much I can do. thanks for the heads up on the tinea powder

 

[S&M Morelia]

Wouldn't a bit of tissue paper work to help seal off the oozing? or atleast soak it up and create a seal.

 

[gozz]

Diluted f10 and a cotton bud wiped over the end of the egg every week.....

 

[snakeynewbie]

You could try to gently place a bit of real cellophane on the end, it's cellulose based so it breathes a little and shouldn't cause mould to grow under it. Might not be worth it now this time round but an idea for next time.

 

[syxxx]

Well I lost this bad egg the dettol was helping with the mould but causing water damage to the egg. I cut the egg open for a look and thought I would share.

 

[snakeynewbie]

Pics not working syxxx, try doing it through the advanced reply rather than through quick reply

 

[syxxx]

My bad with the photo's Im not the best at this sort of thing. I would also like to add I would not recommend using dettol for this purpose