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please help my boa just had babies they have huge yolk sacs and are acting like they cant breath in sacs ................please help

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If your boa just had babies and some are in the yolk sacs just open the sac up. I generally make a little tear in them around the head area for them to poke out.
John
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"To be the best..........You must lose your mind."

Remove the mother. Do not touch the babies. Keep them moist(cover with a damp paper towel), not wet, and little warmer than normal.

there yolk sacs are huge .........the sac they are in is already open but they are not moveing hardly at all........they are like they are to early by a few days..........what would be the best action for me to take to try and keep some alive .....a few took a breath and then just died. please help me.

What worked for me in this situation was (as John said....Remove the mother first) Place the babies in an individual deli cup for each snake with some room temp water. Not too much water. But, just enough to keep moisture available. I left my babies in there until they moved themselves out.
This worked great for me. I had a few that were premature. A couple did not make it. But, a majority did. It was an experiment that I was trying the worked well for me.
I then placed them in my sweater box pull out that was heated and let mother nature do the rest. I changed the water twice daily.

Sorry about the first message. I reread it. I thought you meant sac...........Not yolk.
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"To be the best..........You must lose your mind."

Souds like you have already gotten some good advice. The only thing I might suggest, that has worked very well for us in a similar situation, is to leave them for about 6-12 hours with their yolk and then with any that survive this time period, tie off the yolk about 1/2 inch away from the belly with some dental floss and remove it. Leave the floss long so that if the stump gets retracted in the belly you can gently remove the floss from it. If they try to crawl around with the big external yolk they will literally pull their insides out. If they manage to absorb all that yolk, it can harden in their belly and they will eventually die a slow death. Better to try to get a scrawny baby to eat than to loose one to a hard belly.
Best of luck with them.
It stinks when this happens, I hope you are able to save at least a couple.
Kathy

THIS MAKES ME FELL SO BAD TO SEE! PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM! thanks for all of your advice! you are all wonderful......thanks STEVE