Okay I'm looking for some insight from more knowledgeable folks. I'm a bit stumped I've got a clutch of corn snake eggs incubating on a peralite vermiculite mix this is day 68 @ 82 F. The first hatchling piped it head out this morning now dead half out of the egg. I've now removed the dead snake from the incubation chamber and looked at the egg. The underside of the snake is completely concaved emaciated looking, no birth defects. The egg has a lot of yolk still and the umbilical cord of snake is tightly wrapped around lower portion of snake. Of course when I say tightly wrapped this is just perspective. This seems so odd to me. All the other eggs are completly intact, no other hatchlings.



So... any one have an idea as to why this happened. This is outside of my previous experience. Thanks Steph

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• Death on Hatching - beader, Thu Jul 31 16:35:33 2008
• RE: Death on Hatching - RandyWhittington, Thu Jul 31 19:36:24 2008
• RE: Death on Hatching - cochran, Thu Jul 31 20:10:32 2008
• RE: Death on Hatching - RandyWhittington, Fri Aug 1 09:37:12 2008
• RE: Up Date - Beader, Sun Aug 3 13:10:34 2008
• RE: Up Date - STEVES_KIKI, Sun Aug 3 16:41:13 2008
• RE: Up Date - Beader, Mon Aug 4 00:43:22 2008
• RE: Death on Hatching - DMong, Thu Jul 31 20:19:44 2008
• RE: Death on Hatching - tspuckler, Fri Aug 1 08:28:40 2008