I feel stupid now. I saw this and thought you were giving them mozzarella cheese balls rolled in parsley or something.
those would be baby (Antaresia maculosa) or Spotted Pythons (an Aussie species) hatching and emerging from a clutch of eggs....lol (Reptile eggs are generally soft and leathery in both look and feel)
the stuff you see stuck to the eggs is called vermiculite it is used as an incubation medium as it retains moisture quite well....as the eggs get closer to hatching i generally move the clutch from the vermiculite into a clean box full of damp paper towels...once they have all cleared the egg i transfer them to individual containers.
