Childrens Hatchling pics

gonesnakee · 05-16-03, 03:02 PM

I know you have all been waiting to see a pic of baby Children's from someone so heres a couple pics of the first one hatched (Tuesday 13th). I wanted to get some good pics of them pipping etc. but they wouldn't co-operate. This one hatched the 13th & none of the others even pipped. The next day (Wed 14th) at noon 3 (clutch was 11) more had pipped, but that was it. That night at midnight the 2nd one had hatched & the 5th egg pipped. Thursday (15th) at noon the 3 that had pipped, had hatched, but the remaining 6 eggs had still not pipped. I was getting that impatient I need to do something feeling at this point. I'm glad I left them be because over the next 12 hours the remaining 6 all pipped on their own. Today at noon 2 more had emerged, but the other 4 are still hiding out. I'm a little worried about the one though (last one pipped) it only had a tiny slit & I think I may have goofed by not helping it. I made its "slit" bigger today, but I think the poor little one may not be alive in there anymore? I will find out later I guess. I hate it when eggs don't all hatch at once. The decision of "to intravene or not" is a hard call to make. The last 6 eggs were all much larger & lower in the clutch than the first 5 & the smallest most shrivelled out egg on top was the first guy out so they must have been slightly staggered in their development stages. The heat source was above so the top eggs would have been slightly warmer also. Anyhow enough babbling & heres a couple pics of "Tuesday" my first ever Pyhton produced. WOO HOO Mark I.