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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

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    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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ok at what point do you throw any weird eggs out? soft, caved in ect.....
i would like to hear your responces because i am doing a couple experiments with eggs this year
oh and if you can on iffy or bad looking eggs estimate how many hatch

thanks guys
 
wellI don't throw them out they they are so nasty and gross that they are totally molded and collpsed to the point of no return lol

I did have 2 that I thought were bad hatch, they got moldy and never hardened but I used some desenex to clear up the mold and they hatched.
 
I don’t throw eggs out until they are really bad just like Wendy. Usually when they start to smell I know they’re done. I’ve had a lot of experience this year with infertile eggs and they get bad real quick.
 
thing is i found two very dehydrated eggs (must missed them) but still slightly soft (they were not brittle but caved majorly in) so i decided to try and incubate them... its been about five days now... they are conpletely nornmal now and i will candle them in a couple of days to see if i can veining
 
I save them until they mold are start to smell. If they look infertile or are long shots like the ones you described. I'll usually put them in a separate cup.

-Alice
 
well,

I incubate anything that has a shade of a chance of being fertile. If it's a limp, flat, water-balloon I throw it out, otherwise it gets labeled and put in the incubator until it either hatches or becomes a moldy 'science project'.
 
these two eggs i missed, looked like raisins and felt very rubbery sorta (but not brittle)... today they look totally normal like the rest of my eggs
 
Robin it sounds like you saved a pair of good eggs. I dont think infertile ones would plump back up. Anyways I would definitely incubate those ones, they show promise. And ditto what eveyone else says, I dont toss until they smell, explode, or implode and start to grow other life forms. I've even had some (not most) waterballoony ones will firm up and eventually hatch.
 
I found two dried up eggs a couple of weeks ago..... They were caved in pretty deap..... I put them in the incubator and they plumped up in like 3 days..... They are fertile and seem to be doing fine.....

I will toss an egg only when it starts to smell.....
 
yeah gregg thats how mine were caved in very deeply but they werent brittle but getting there FAST
 
I'd keep em Robin! They sound promising. I would however put them in a seperate cup just incase they are mutant aliens and ARE going to explode green life sucking juice all over the place.


But i doubt it. :)
 
Can we get a description of the water ballooning egg you guys are talking about? I am not sure what you are referring to.
 
LOL i did and labled it my "target experiment" (like im a friggon mad scientist LOL) and they look perfect like they were never a raisin
 
very thin shelled (almost transparant but not quite) usually larger, not as firm as normal eggs, softer and they GET HUGE... sometimes they can take on an outwardly offwhite appearance or kinda odd colored
 
somtimes, for some reason, the nest substarate doesnt seem to stick to it as well, like it does with normal eggs (i use spagnum peat)
 
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