This is Daisy's 10th clutch and she threw some oddballs this time. Prior clutches have all been normal, consistently sized and well calcified. She waited longer than normal to start laying this year (Early March instead of early January.), but her first clutch was all normal and good. Normal interval is about 6 weeks, and we are at about 5 and a half weeks right now, but it rained yesterday.
Here she is doing the deed earlier today.
And here is the finished product after she went to bed and I dug them up tonight:
Most of the eggs were 39-40 grams, but this one was 68 grams! It was huge! Twins maybe?
As if that wasn't odd enough, I got two of these:
Each of these two had these little extra calcium projections. I've never seen this before, and here I've got two. Close up:
I put them in the vermiculite, and into the incubator they went. I set these these "special" eggs apart from the others so I can keep an eye on them and see what they do.:
All the other eggs in this batch were very well formed, well calcified and consistent. Comments and observations welcome.
Here she is doing the deed earlier today.
And here is the finished product after she went to bed and I dug them up tonight:
Most of the eggs were 39-40 grams, but this one was 68 grams! It was huge! Twins maybe?
As if that wasn't odd enough, I got two of these:
Each of these two had these little extra calcium projections. I've never seen this before, and here I've got two. Close up:
I put them in the vermiculite, and into the incubator they went. I set these these "special" eggs apart from the others so I can keep an eye on them and see what they do.:
All the other eggs in this batch were very well formed, well calcified and consistent. Comments and observations welcome.