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10 living babies - 10 dead !!??!!

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Karolina25

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For about 5 days ago my 20 eggs started to hatch ..... only 10 babies did came out alive and today I try to open the rest of the eggs - and found the other babies dead ! Why ??

They where just like the others, but was started to "rutten" in the middel of their bodies. 5 of the eggs even have cuts from the hatchlings teeth, but they where dead inside ... and the smell was disgusting !!

Does somebody know why this happened? Should I try to help them out from their eggs earlier next time ?

Well .... I did get som very cute hatchlings - 3 anery and 7 normal het. for snow and amel and anery .....
 
I am sorry to hear you lost so many, but congratulations on the 10 you did get! I know you will have lots of fun with them.

I do not know why they didn't make it out. With some clutches this never happens, and with some clutches you may see a high incidence as you have just experienced. I know that some of the breeders on the board will disagree with me here, but my personal view is that if they can't make it out of the egg alive, then they weren't meant to live. I do not believe in cutting the egg open for the purposes of "helping" them out. In the past I have tried that with lizards, and the ones I had to help invariably turned out to be poor-growers/poor-developers/problem feeders etc. I would prefer not to increase weakness in genetic lines.

Best Wishes, Skye
 
This year, when I realized I was getting BAD hatchlings (kinks, deformities) I didn't really want to prolong the agony. In each clutch, after two had pipped, I pipped the rest. No motion in 24 to 48 hours, I opened them the rest of the way and investigated. Next year, hopefully, will be a better year. I think that what happens is that the babies lose their egg tooth, or their energy reserves are too small for the effort (and would have been too small for the effort of living and eating too). Some have had that instinct bred out of them. I believe in the "do not help out of the egg" idea in principal, but didn't at all follow that this year. In my case it was best I didn't as I really only opened up the eggs to end up putting down most of the clutch. (snakes just aren't meant to live and function in a paper-clip shaped body)... next year.... better eggs and no slitting... that's my motto!
 
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