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Well just to add to my rotten year. I had a large girl drop fully formed dead babies. There were 14 very very large fully developed babies dead with 17 giant slugs and one survivor. There was no slim or egg sacks. Is it possible she held the babies in too long?? I didn't get to see a ovulation so I do not know what her due date was.
Any ideas what could have happened??
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Well here is a Scenario I experienced this season and it's not the
first time me or someone else has had this certain experience occur.

The fact that you mention no Birth sacks leads me to believe this is what happened.

First I tell you what occurred with my big common Colombian fem this season.

She had a belly full went to term and at the point she started to
deliver it became apparent to me she was in distress.

I've seen it before I'm the King of bad odds and bad luck.

What was occurring is this the first item up for delivery was a Slug.

She could not pass that slug , as her contractions and efforts to push that slug
as well as the Mass of Babies behind the slug.

Those efforts of her pushing as hard as she could, led to many in fact most
of the babies births sacks rupturing while still with in her.

So as she continued to push the babies are exposed there little self contained world that fed them provided oxygen and nutrients was now gone.

If they were laying in a pile of Boa Goo on the floor of the cage they would taking their first breaths.

Instead they were suffocating inside Mom as she continued to struggle with that Damn Slug !

Once she finally dislodged that bastard Slug I lost I think 17 perfectly healthy babies , somehow 5 came out healthy and alive.
I'm guessing somehow their sacks weren't disrupted early on.
So those 5 little girls survived !

This is possibly a situations that occurs more often than people realize I'm guessing.

The stuck slug could come at the beginning , middle or towards
the end of parturition, thus creating different losses.

. . . Lar M
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Well that makes sense LarM. She dropped some of the biggest slugs I have ever seen. Thanks for the reply.
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