Tenrec
Chirping
- Apr 9, 2017
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Hey there, new to the thread, and I hope I can bring up this topic....It seems relevant, malpo's are seriously hard to assist.
I've been through some clutches of shipped eggs over the past few months, and I gotta say, they are a different beast entirely. I'm getting wore out over some lousy hatches.
My first shipped clutch ended with 1/3 of the eggs that made it to lockdown dying of malpo.
Since then, I've been trying different things to make sure this doesn't happen again. It hasn't been super successful. Everyone that has some degree of detachement in their cell has about a 50 percent chance of being malpo'd at lockdown. It's emotionally and physically pretty taxing to see this -- I don't like animals suffering if I can do something about it.
Things I have tried:
-Setting the seriously detached or saddled cells in carton for the first ten days, then letting them lay on their side after they more or less stabilized.
-Doing the same thing, but putting the mildly detached and good air cells at a 30 degree angle on their side.
-Putting EVERYONE that has anything less than a perfect, rigid air cell in an upright position until they hatch.
Again, same results with all of these.
If they're in a carton, they get turned three times a day by tilting the carton at a 45 degree angle, right up until lockdown.
Mind you, this ONLY happens with eggs with some degree of air cell detachment...I recently got a clutch of shipped eggs that had really beautiful air cells, and everybody that made it to lockdown came out like popcorn.
I have a clutch hatching right now that's doing the same. I'm running out of ways to handle this; even slightly weird cells are becoming a nigh death sentence around here, and I just can't help but think there's SOMETHING I can do to give them better than a 50/50 shot. Any other suggestions?
I've been through some clutches of shipped eggs over the past few months, and I gotta say, they are a different beast entirely. I'm getting wore out over some lousy hatches.
My first shipped clutch ended with 1/3 of the eggs that made it to lockdown dying of malpo.
Since then, I've been trying different things to make sure this doesn't happen again. It hasn't been super successful. Everyone that has some degree of detachement in their cell has about a 50 percent chance of being malpo'd at lockdown. It's emotionally and physically pretty taxing to see this -- I don't like animals suffering if I can do something about it.
Things I have tried:
-Setting the seriously detached or saddled cells in carton for the first ten days, then letting them lay on their side after they more or less stabilized.
-Doing the same thing, but putting the mildly detached and good air cells at a 30 degree angle on their side.
-Putting EVERYONE that has anything less than a perfect, rigid air cell in an upright position until they hatch.
Again, same results with all of these.
If they're in a carton, they get turned three times a day by tilting the carton at a 45 degree angle, right up until lockdown.
Mind you, this ONLY happens with eggs with some degree of air cell detachment...I recently got a clutch of shipped eggs that had really beautiful air cells, and everybody that made it to lockdown came out like popcorn.
I have a clutch hatching right now that's doing the same. I'm running out of ways to handle this; even slightly weird cells are becoming a nigh death sentence around here, and I just can't help but think there's SOMETHING I can do to give them better than a 50/50 shot. Any other suggestions?
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