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My first clutch hatched on 8/24 - all were ok except one, the smallest of the bunch - had the egg sac still attached. I tied it off with fishing line and cut the sac off - seemed ok - now a another protrusion is viewable - see photos. Any advice or recommednations will be most appreciated?

Thanks,
Jim

I would get that snake to a vet asap. It looks like some of its intestines have come out through the umbilical cord opening which didn't close properly upon hatching. Keep the snake on damp paper towel so nothing dries out, but at this point you need to take it to a vet to properly clean and close that opening.
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PHLdyPayne

Forum Princess

trust me....freeze it now....

that is not supposed to be out , by the look of the belly it is not doing well...it is in bad shape actualy...it will die probably soon........

......too late to put it back in......

sometimes the things hanging out are to be inside not outside....never cut the wrong things....it's hard to tell sometimes....

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................JY

I agree. As much as you might feel bad about it, I would freeze it.

A little patience and it should have sucked in by the first shed or two if you kept it on moist paper towels. Your fishing line surgery probably was a bad idea. You are not castrating a bull (which by the way is done with tight rubber bands nto tightly tyed string), you want that excess to have gone in and not cut it off. You essentially cut off its insides by cutting off the circulation to some internal organ. Take it to the vet or humanely put it down.