Hi Rocky Mountain Man, I'm sorry but to me they look infertile. I have had years of looking at eggs just like this, waiting weeks and weeks for the final horrible realisation that they aren't going to hatch. On the bright side, once they get it right you could have 18 little hatchlings every...
Hope this picture upload works, really sorry if it doesn't. The babies are in the tub (one is from another clutch) and you should be able to see one from last year and one from the year before behind them. That's just their night time cage, they live outside during the day. I do envy all you...
Thank you everyone, I have learnt something - be prepared. I now keep a little plastic tub with superglue, new skin, egg cup with paper towel circle/nest thing to support yolk sack and the sphagnum moss. Mainly because I know I'll panic again. I think he might have made it if I had been...
Sadly he didn't make it. He looked much better yesterday with just the remains of the yolk sac to the side attached to the shell by a thin thread. The shell was nearly closed and I thought the remainder would slowly dry up. I've never had a hatchling with this problem only little tiny yolk...
Thank you for the warm welcome, it's so good to have advice available when you're flapping about in a panic. I have taken him out of the incubator, given him a little soak in warm boiled water and put him in the moss nest as advised and into my second hovabator I've just finished hatching a...
Hi everyone, I need some help please from the experts. I have one of this year's baby Hermanns hatch with a large yolk sac, about quarter of plastron. I followed previous posts and did as described, Vaseline, small cup, moist tissue and back into incubator (hope I got that bit right)...