I hope everyones weekend was better than mine! My cat somehow got into the room where I keep my incubators and she knocked one of them over which contained 22 Sandfire Beardie eggs that were due to hatch in just 2 weeks! I walked into the room and the hovabator was laying upside down, and the deli cups containing the eggs were also turned upside down. It felt like someone had just ripped out my heart, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it's one of those nightmares that you want to wake up from. I put the incubator back together and gathered up the eggs and placed them back in the vermiculate and because I didn't mark the tops of the eggs, I have no idea which side was sappose to be up (I wasn't expecting to ever have to "move" them so marking them never crossed my mind). I'm extremely heartbroken, I was really looking forward to these little guys hatching. Does anybody know what the chances are that these eggs could still hatch? I'm trying to not get my hopes up, I'm expecting the worse and hoping for the best. Has anybody had anything like this happen and the eggs survive? This isn't the only bad thing that happened to me yesterday, the last egg from my sandfireXyellow hatched and the baby was so deformed that it was heartbreaking! It's back legs were joined together, it looked more like a mermaid tail than back legs. At the end of its joined back legs was one foot, and the poor little guys leg folded upwards instead of the normal position. His head was deformed also. He had only one eye and the other side of his head was caved in. And last but not least, his internal organs were on the outside of his body. It broke my heart when he opened his one little eye and looked up at me. I had to have him put down. Does anybody know what causes these types of deformities? The rest of his clutchmates are super healthy babies and the mother has always had healthy babies so I know it's not from her genetics, however, this is the first clutch that the dad has fathered so is it possible that it's in his genes? Any input on either matter (the flipped eggs and the deformed baby) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading my long post! Christy

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