I have a redfoot egg from a clutch of 9 hatching on day 117.
We are not 100% sure who's it is.
Princess lays clutches of 7 to 10 and I only ever get 1 egg hatch from her clutches. Her babies are always very dark and lack the vibrant colors.
Then we have Beatrice who lays very large eggs but only ever 3 to 5 in a clutch. We've never had any of hers hatch, we also seem to have problems with Beatrice's eggs breaking upon laying.
Anyway, Dawn is convinced this clutch of 9 belongs to Beatrice, when they were laid she saw Beatrice walking away from the nest and straight for a huge drink of water. She never actually saw these eggs being layed.
I think they are princesses because of the high count of eggs and they are smaller eggs. In this photo you can see the clutch of 9 at the top, then you can see the 4 larger eggs from another 2 clutches of Beatrice's. These 2 clutches were 4 and 4 but 3 and 1 broke.
Btw, Beatrice is very very concave on the plastron, could it be she will always have trouble laying?
Sooo I'm thinking if this baby is dark it's princesses, if it's full of color it's Beatrices. Beatrice has some serious amounts of limb scales in bright yellow.
I candled these 9 eggs about 3 days ago because I noticed they were getting dark patches, I had convinced myself all 9 were duds.
Sheesh, hope you all followed that.
We are not 100% sure who's it is.
Princess lays clutches of 7 to 10 and I only ever get 1 egg hatch from her clutches. Her babies are always very dark and lack the vibrant colors.
Then we have Beatrice who lays very large eggs but only ever 3 to 5 in a clutch. We've never had any of hers hatch, we also seem to have problems with Beatrice's eggs breaking upon laying.
Anyway, Dawn is convinced this clutch of 9 belongs to Beatrice, when they were laid she saw Beatrice walking away from the nest and straight for a huge drink of water. She never actually saw these eggs being layed.
I think they are princesses because of the high count of eggs and they are smaller eggs. In this photo you can see the clutch of 9 at the top, then you can see the 4 larger eggs from another 2 clutches of Beatrice's. These 2 clutches were 4 and 4 but 3 and 1 broke.
Btw, Beatrice is very very concave on the plastron, could it be she will always have trouble laying?
Sooo I'm thinking if this baby is dark it's princesses, if it's full of color it's Beatrices. Beatrice has some serious amounts of limb scales in bright yellow.
I candled these 9 eggs about 3 days ago because I noticed they were getting dark patches, I had convinced myself all 9 were duds.
Sheesh, hope you all followed that.