35 more eggs!

Kora laid 35 more eggs today and every single one looks fertile. Looks like I'm going to be absolutely over-run with babies...LOL. It's exactly a month since she had the first clutch - May 24 and June 24!

I have no idea how she fit them all in that fat little tummy. She knows what her lay box is and as soon as she's put into it she goes to work digging and making a nice little den. She laid them all within an hour or so and completely packed them in there. There was NO evidence of a hole when she was done...but I knew she had laid. She made me work for them...I had to dig to the very bottom of the container to find the eggs tightly packed in there. It was really tedious.....I felt like I was excavating precious fossils or something. They're all neatly packed into the incubator now, and there is NO room left for more. Hopefully this will be her last clutch. If not, I have a few people who might take some eggs to raise.

Here's miss Kora being a grumpy pregnant woman, giving me the stink eye























And here are the eggs all neatly packed in and getting toasty - (Top right are the 5 older eggs)

Shedding

Momma Kora is in a full body shed as of today....she looks pretty miserable! The orange underneath is gorgeous though :) Just had to post some "embarrasing" pics of her shedding. (Taken with my camera phone, so they aren't great)









































Eggs are doing well! They are 22 days old today....

Making progress!

The eggs are now about 19 day old and GROWING! I got rid of the eggs that were stating to mold or look nasty (and had no veins in them). Now there are 5 left, and of them have visible veins and are getting bigger. Apparently since this is her VERY first clutch, it's not uncommon for her to not have too many fertile ones. Hopefully next clutch will have a few more, but I'm perfectly fine with a few at a time! I'll have to order crickets by the truckload as it is LOL. I took pics the other night without moving them, and they seem to be doing well. I'm amazed at how much they've grown in such a short time. It's so cool to see the veins forming!

Now I'm rushing Kora to HURRY UP and lay the next clutch....I've been putting her in her lay box every few days but she won't dig and looks pretty pissed at the "indignity of it all." She's a prissy little thing and doesn't like anything dirty in her cage.


Without further ado.....here they are!