My guess would be it's like it is with human babies. Even though they haven't eaten anything, they do have waste. Snakes absorb their egg yolk and continue to feed off of it for a week or so after birth. The poops could be the remnants of it as it was digested and processed.



I doubt that it could be worms already. They've been kept separately from one another and from the rest of your snakes, and I see no connection to where worms could have come from. Unless you reused water dishes that weren't thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before their use with the hatchlings. Most snakes get worms from the rodents they eat, the worms in their prey's gut. But since most of us use frozen/thawed mice these days, the likelihood of tainted mice would be very slim. And the fact that these two haven't even eaten yet, just further disproves that.



In my experience with baby birds (chickens, guineas, and peacocks), they too defecate after hatching having not eaten anything for a couple of days after hatching. So I don't think it's anything to worry with. I would be more concerned with trying to get the two hatchlings to eat something. =P



Hope that helped some.
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