cerberusia replied to your post: Babies no, I haven’t got the brooder set up for...
omg, I had no idea they did that! That’s so cute <3
THEY DO. The sound will also stimulate any babies who are on th epoint of hatching to hurry up the last stages of their development. They can do this because they’re already mostly formed, they just need to absorb the rest of their yolk and seal the ‘bellybutton’ before hatching, then that yolk gives them all the energy source they need for the first 48 hours or so while they work themselves out. So they’ve got a bit of wiggle room there about their actual hatching date if their mum started sitting the clutch (ie, making them start to develop) before she’d quite finish laying. In this case I have a dozen that I put in the incubator all at once to see if the young lad had managed to work out fertilisation yet - spoiler alert, he has - then another six that I put in a week later, so those ones aren’t developed enough to be rushed by the peeping. But the others are all working themselves out. :)
... in FACT I think i hear a slightly more definite and less shell-muffled noise ... one moment...
