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a pair of my zebbies has laid a egg that is bigger then the normal ones
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how much bigger? is it soft shelled?
try putting more calcium in. This can be given in the form of shell grit, cuttlefish, or a specialised mineral grits all available at good pet supply stores (I.E. Petbarn)
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i put shell grit in there in a separate dish everyday but i don't want to touch because the zebbies wont sit on them
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Eggs can occassionally vary in size. Not too comon but. If it is quite a bit bigger you may have jagged a double yolker. Unfortunately unless you are there at the time of hatching to help, and this is very difficult, the twins will probably not make it. And even if you do manage to be there and help the odds are against twins surviving.
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the egg is a bit bigger then the normal ones will the twins be joined together or come out normal
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The very few I have seen over the last 20 - 40 years have mostly died in shell and been seperate and very small. The couple where they were assisted to hatch were also seperate and small, only ever recall one set that survied. But if ithe egg is only a bit bigger, you may just have a big baby.
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