The Eggs are Hatching! Pictures!

[Catherine]

The last egg hatched! Finally. He slipped out after 1am.

I still have them in the egg box and they are resting. I will transfer them to a different container tonight. They will stay there for a couple of weeks. Their stomachs are full of yolk. That is why the hatching takes so long. They need to absorb all the yolk in the egg. That will feed them for two weeks and they will grow. They will have a first shed and after that they will be hungry.

When I see them searching for food I will offer them pinkie mice. (That is their natural food and I get bags of frozen pinkies) It can still take time to get them eating. Some never eat and I suspect that there was something wrong all along.

The two eggs that we had to cut open had very large babies and I think they had trouble moving to cut their way out of the egg. It is one of those babies that you see in the pictures. The tiny babies just slip out of the egg in seconds.

I will get pictures again when I move them. They are buried in the moss sleeping right now.