Shouting "HATCH ALREADY" doesn't work!

[cathis]

I know we are all in the same boat in here... just venting a little I have 2 eggs that were laid on March 6, incubating female at 81 degrees. I know they are due any day now and I swear, I check them every 15 minutes. When I was out of town last week, the first thing my husband would greet me with in the mornings and evenings on the phone was 'Nope, still eggs'. These will be my first eggs this year and the first full-term eggs from this female.
I need to learn more effective rituals to encourage hatching; anyone have any hints?

 

[ariana]

dance around in a lei and coconut bra with a grass skirt and chant edgar allen poe poems to them

 

[OneFootedAce]

dance around in a lei and coconut bra with a grass skirt and chant edgar allen poe poems to them

That always works... Especially if you're a guy...

 

[Tommy13b]

Lol i know what you mean dude, i have an egg thats due today and im like a hawk watching over my nest.

 

[robin]

i tend to dress up as a drag queen and strut around my house listening to ABBA

 

[cathis]

i tend to dress up as a drag queen and strut around my house listening to ABBA

Do you think just watching Priscilla would help? I suppose I could dress as a... drag king?
Day 54 has nearly gone, and the eggs aren't lizards yet!

 

[robin]

Do you think just watching Priscilla would help? I suppose I could dress as a... drag king?
Day 54 has nearly gone, and the eggs aren't lizards yet!

yes i do watch priscilla too!

 

[acpart]

I posted on another similar thread about my obsessive record keeping that helps take the edge off.

Aliza

 

[PetVet]

I am so with you there...even my dancing and singing and record keeping doesn't help lol.
Day 52...stiillll freakin eggs. *stares at egg a little more intensely*

 

[Palor]

try singing to them, like some people do plants?

 

[CapCitySteve]

I know we are all in the same boat in here... just venting a little I have 2 eggs that were laid on March 6, incubating female at 81 degrees. I know they are due any day now and I swear, I check them every 15 minutes. When I was out of town last week, the first thing my husband would greet me with in the mornings and evenings on the phone was 'Nope, still eggs'. These will be my first eggs this year and the first full-term eggs from this female.
I need to learn more effective rituals to encourage hatching; anyone have any hints?

Increase the temperature to around 90 after the first three weeks and your eggs should hatch around weeks 7-8 Since your incubating at 81 they might not hatch until weeks 8, 9, or 10 which would put you at May 8 or 15 currently.

 

[cathis]

Increase the temperature to around 90 after the first three weeks and your eggs should hatch around weeks 7-8 Since your incubating at 81 they might not hatch until weeks 8, 9, or 10 which would put you at May 8 or 15 currently.

Well, last year my average was 47 days... so I'm a little tense this year! Briefly candled the eggs, they are nearly solid black with baby. I can't do the heating trick due to the fact I have 8 females and only 1 incubator; and I have not yet decided where I stand on the 'artificial color enhancement' that allegedly takes place when one does that.

 

[CapCitySteve]

How is it artificial? Your not injecting dye into them, lol. Their color is going to change over the first two to three years of their life ragardless of what temp you incubate them at. Also that really only comes into play if your dealing with tremper albinos, and I'll admit I personally like the darker ones which result from lower inc. temps.

 

[Tommy13b]

Todays day 32, im incubating at 90 and still nothing yet lol.

 

[cathis]

Day 59, still no babies :/ Candled them briefly, they are FULL of baby and nearly no red/empty areas, but no hatch yet. Argh.
Ooh! I must have done something right- I see a nose!
One beautiful snow het tremper hatched; AS my snow bred to my snow blizzard laid eggs... I didn't know what to take pictures of! Egglaying looks... gooey.