hatchling ratios

[justalette]

so this is my first season breeding and im at 3:7 living hatchlings right now that does not seem like good odds!:main_no: :main_huh: where is every else this season?

 

[acpart]

What exactly do you mean with the ratio? Are you talking about number of living vs. dead hatchlings, number of living vs. dead in the egg fetuses, number of living vs. eggs that are no good? If you read some of the other posts, many of us are having a hard time this year. If you have first year breeders, there's even more of a chance. If you give me more info I'll try for a more specific response which I"ll send after Wed. night, since I"m now off the computer for the Jewish New Year.

Aliza

 

[thekooliest]

i think he means
live births:deaths
but just a guess?
....I don't breed, maybe next year?...im not making complete sentences, sorry

 

[bohannbj]

This year is rough dude. My newest hatchlings are doing terrible, while my earlier ones are doing awesome. It is wearing me out.

 

[italipinos8]

This is my first year and i had a total of 19 eggs. 2 eggs were infertile and 2 babies died from a cat getting into there cage. Other then that i hatched 17 babies (including ones that died) all of which were healthy except one which had i deformed eyelid.

 

[hoppslover]

I have hatched 7 for 7 so far this year with one still in the incubator. All have been very healthy.

 

[justalette]

I meant living vs dead that have hatched.

 

[jaredm3624]

i've had two clutches so far. two eggs should hatch pretty soon and the other two were from a first year breeder and they were not any good. Hopefully I will have another clutch within the week.

 

[jimbo2412]

Ive had bad luck to. One of my 1 moth old geckos ate a new born(i have changed caging since), I sold one to the pet-store i work at and a snake got out and ate him, and one was born early and had a egg sack problem and no eye lids(died a day later) so ive had 15 born and out of those three have died.

 

[Baoh]

I have had four stop developing early on, one MS Tremper het RAPTOR born with an incomplete twin that may have had some of its organs which died, one MS het RAPTOR which just seemed to up and die in the egg after an unusually long incubation period, and now I have my last two eggs. They are moving around in the egg and seem well formed, but they are over a week late for their "due" date. I just placed a laboratory environmental monitor in the incubator and, if it is correct, my digital thermometer I bought from the pet store is off by over three degrees. That last bit is enough to try my patience. I am probably going to construct my own incubators if I can confirm a problem with the original thermometer.

 

[acpart]

As you can see, a lot of people are having problems with hatchlings this year. If you are a first year breeder, here are some things to check:

are you supplementing the adults adequately, or have you changed supplements lately (there is info on the forum about what has been working and what has not worked so well)

are the temperatures in your incubator steady and not fluctuating?

Are the females of appropriate age and weight to be breeding?

Are your adults eating mealworms (there seem to be more problems with adults being fed mealworms, although this is not 100%)?

If all these things are OK, you may just be in the same situation as a lot of the rest of us.

ALiza

 

[fallen_angel]

Fortunately, we haven't had any hatch that have died *knock on wood*
But we've had some to die inside the egg and never hatch at all, many infertile/empty eggs, and so on and so forth.

 

[jaredm3624]

update from yesterday, one egg hatched with no problems except for a small lump behind her front right leg. Doesn't effect her at all while moving, and she seems to be healthy other than that. Very sweet girl right out of the egg. Now I'm just waiting on the clutch mate.

 

[Baoh]

One egg left for me.

 

[eyelids]

I've had a great season so far this year... I scaled back quite a bit from last year and focused on just a few females... From those three I got thirty-two eggs, twenty-seven were fertile and hatched healthy babies... Two eggs are still incubating and due to hatch in a week or so...

I have six other eggs incubating from a yet to be ''momma'' female and they all appear to be fertile... Plus four gravid yet to lay females...

Last year I lost 60% of my eggs so it's not always so great... :main_thumbsup: