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Originally Posted by KristinaRogers
The embryo will not attach itself to the egg wall for about 24 hours, so you have a little wiggle room if you find the eggs right after the female lays them.
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Not trying to hijack this thread but had to post a sincere thank you for this useful information that messes up an experiment I did last summer with skink eggs.
I thought the time line was 4 or 5 hours and deliberately shifted the positioning in a clutch of skink eggs to see if the no turn rule applied to skinks, I knew it did turtles and many other but not all reptiles. All of the twenty some eggs hatched and I surmised that the rule did not apply to Great Plains skinks.
Now I'll have to perform the test over again allowing at least 24 hours before turning any eggs any degree.
Now back to the gecko egg question with my apologies for the off topic comment.
IMO every egg should be incubated
in vermiculite until it is clearly dead.
