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Very interesting, Craig.
Of the dozens of Redfoot eggs I've excavated, it seems to me that they always touched one another. But also that they were packed by soil. No pocket of air. In fact the soil was always wet or damp and packed in all around the eggs so that when an egg was removed, a perfect indentation in the shape of that egg was left.
Maybe in my soil then eggs left in my pen would fail? Maybe. It's all pretty interesting.
The eggs touching thing seems like it might be valid. Because my incubator with eggs not touching is hatching babies laid the same day, weeks apart.
Of the dozens of Redfoot eggs I've excavated, it seems to me that they always touched one another. But also that they were packed by soil. No pocket of air. In fact the soil was always wet or damp and packed in all around the eggs so that when an egg was removed, a perfect indentation in the shape of that egg was left.
Maybe in my soil then eggs left in my pen would fail? Maybe. It's all pretty interesting.
The eggs touching thing seems like it might be valid. Because my incubator with eggs not touching is hatching babies laid the same day, weeks apart.