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Well let's start with the bad.... Apparently the heat wave dried out my incubator the last few days of incubation. 2 eggs pipped on their own but after losing 2 babies to suffocation I slit the rest open. Leaving me with only 6 babies... One of which had his umbilical cord wrapped around his tail (see below)
one egg was almost hollow except for a weird "goo" inside but no baby...(?) And the last egg is weird...

Now for the good news.... I have some babies!

And the best news of the season so far.....
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER!

What are the odds that Hope AND the male I borrowed would both be het for stripe....? I am guessing NOT in my favor!

Now for the weird egg.... Who has a question related to it.

Believe it or not there IS a baby in this pile of goop... It has been 4 days since the first pip and this guy seems to be alive. Should I just leave him in there or should I take him out....? The fact that he is another stripe makes the decision all the more difficult. He was connected to the main cluster of eggs so there is NO reason he should be four days late.... Any suggestions?
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-David Harrison-
.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 Ball Python "Rocky Ballboa" (Didn't name her!)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

hey, that is not "wierd goo". That is the placenta. the snake is under it.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once"

No baby under the "other egg" I was refering too. There was hardly anything under the other goo. But the egg pictured does have a baby in it that is alive and kicking! I just wonder why he is over 5 days late.......
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-David Harrison-
.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 Ball Python "Rocky Ballboa" (Didn't name her!)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

in the picture with te open egg, you can see the baby inside. Glad he got out ok.
It looks like when you cut the egg, you did not cut the sack that the baby was in. I have had this happen before. There have been times where I know I cut the sack, but just a tiny bit. I come back the next morning and it is sealed. I think it can repair itself to some degree. Maybe to help safe guard against bug holes. On that case, last year, i found an earwig (pincher bug) chewing on an egg. it had made a tiny speck where the "goo" was oozing out. By the next day, the egg was not oozing and the hatchling was fine.
Now that I went off on that tangent, I forgot what I was going to say. LOl.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once"

The baby died. He was 6 days over due so i am sure he had something wrong with him from the git-go. But the other 5 are doing good!
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-David Harrison-
.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 Ball Python "Rocky Ballboa" (Didn't name her!)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

That's a sweet looking striped snow!

Tim

Third Eye