When to cut the egg open ?

GeckoGirl89

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Hey guys,

I've got a clutch of eggs, one hatched out last Monday and the other still hasn't hatched out and doesn't seem like it wants to at all? It's a good week and some over-due and I'm starting to worry just a little bit. There is no denting, nothing?

Should i cut the egg open or leave it be ? Anyone had this happen before? Is my hatchling dead & that's why it's not hatching?

I'm starting to worry about it, someone told me to cut it open and help the hatchling, but i figured i would come on here and ask first before doing anything.

Please any help would be wonderful, Thanks!
 
gage

gage

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ive never had this happen to me but im thinking the egg has died the farthest you should wait for hatchlings to hatch after eachother is a week im thinking maybe you should cut them but ide wait to see what other people say before you do
 
Olimpia

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I would almost candle it again to see if you see any movement. I figure just like babies can spend a good almost 10 months in the womb, hatchlings might sometimes just need a little more time. But if you don't see much, it might have died :/ but again, wait until someone with more than a year of gecko experience tells you anything more definitive.
 
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Mel&Keith

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If the egg still looks good I would leave it alone. Since there's no exact number of days an egg is supposed to hatch at the other one could have hatched a little early. The other possibility is that the other one just isn't going to make it out of the egg. This happened to us a couple weeks ago. I couldn't decide if I should cut open the week over due egg but it started sweating and smelling so I did. It was a perfectly formed baby that had died inside. :( Still, I don't know that the success rate for cutting eggs open is higher than cutting it open to find a dead or premature baby that can't make it.
 
chazthaking2

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i had been in the situation before and in my opinion is wait as long as you can because when i opened up the egg the baby was still gasping for air. i felt real bad, so if i were you i would just wait. think of it, if you leave it in there it can only live or die, but if you cut it open you insure its death. so you have nothing to lose with leaving it alone
 
GeckoGirl89

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OK thank you so much guys! it's killing me to know that it might have died in the egg! I'm just worried, I didn't see movement in the egg, but how can i tell ? My boyfriends brother said he see's the egg move all the time, but i never do ?

Anyways thank you everyone for all the helpful information! :D

I will wait it out and see what happens
 
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italipinos8

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I have never seen movement in any of my eggs but then again i never really looked. And it is best to wait it out.
 
lisa s

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my personal oppinion is that if the baby cant make it out of the egg it is not a strong enough individual. Let "nature" work its way.
 
Khrysty

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I've got an egg that stopped candling pink on day 39 and there's no movement at all. Is it safe to assume it died? Or could this little guy still make it? She has/would have had a week and a half more to go..

(p.s. sorry for hijacking your thread)
 
Olimpia

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I would say wait perhaps. If it only has a week left to go, and if you have other eggs in there anyway, I would just leave it in the incubator. Worst comes to worst, you have a warm moldy egg.
 
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dutchgekko

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Well i do not fully agree with cutting eggs open is a bad thing, because of the fact that a gecko hatches using his egg tooth which has no other purpose than to open the egg. if this tooth is underdeveloped it is not able to open the egg by itself. and it maybe fully developed but cant come out and die.
I first opened an egg that ecsidentilly leaked when candeling and the gecko was allright.
I commited to myself that if 1 of the 2 eggs hatches i will open the other one myself.
As they where both layed at same time and had the same hatching temps and so it should be fully developed as well.
And the oppinion that nature needs to work its way, counts in the wild. but this are not wild anymals and we are keeping them in different circumstances it might be that the egg shell is to thick because the mom had too much calcium. also incubation temp and humidity could couse the egg to harden out.

i would not cutt open a egg when none of the 2 had hatched but when 1 is ready the other should be as well.
Its just my oppinion im not a 'expert' as well.
 
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