Post by chrisd on Sept 21, 2014 17:36:05 GMT
Hi
What a weird year this has been. As usual my female Billineata laid 13 eggs earlier in the year which hatched in an incubator and are looking very healthy. Unusually, she double clutched a short time later but the eggs were small and infertile. That's never happened before. The other female housed with her laid 12 eggs which were infertile which is normal for her. She's never laid any viable eggs in all the years I've had her. In June I found a few eggs from another small Billineata female while cleaning out a larger cage, which had been there a while and didn't look healthy, they were dried up, hard and most of them discoloured. I didn't bother to put them in the incubator but left them in perlite in a container in a warm garage.
One of these eggs from the young female hatched last week amazing as I didn't look after them at all. I estimate it could have taken up to 3 months for it to hatch. But that's not all. Today I found 12 newly hatched young running around one of my wooden cages outside. They must have come from a second clutch from the female which has never laid viable eggs before and they hatched outside !!
Anyone had any similar experiences ? I thought it may be due to the last few exceptional summers we've had.
chris
What a weird year this has been. As usual my female Billineata laid 13 eggs earlier in the year which hatched in an incubator and are looking very healthy. Unusually, she double clutched a short time later but the eggs were small and infertile. That's never happened before. The other female housed with her laid 12 eggs which were infertile which is normal for her. She's never laid any viable eggs in all the years I've had her. In June I found a few eggs from another small Billineata female while cleaning out a larger cage, which had been there a while and didn't look healthy, they were dried up, hard and most of them discoloured. I didn't bother to put them in the incubator but left them in perlite in a container in a warm garage.
One of these eggs from the young female hatched last week amazing as I didn't look after them at all. I estimate it could have taken up to 3 months for it to hatch. But that's not all. Today I found 12 newly hatched young running around one of my wooden cages outside. They must have come from a second clutch from the female which has never laid viable eggs before and they hatched outside !!
Anyone had any similar experiences ? I thought it may be due to the last few exceptional summers we've had.
chris