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In one clutch, all the babies were out of their eggs yesterday except one egg that hadn't even piped, but looked good. Today I decided to open it. After cutting a whole in the egg, I could see the baby was moving, but it was fused together. I pushed it out and was surprised to find it looking the way it did, maybe because its the first deformed snake I've ever found in an egg.

IMG_7902 by RossAZ480, on Flickr

IMG_7911 by RossAZ480, on Flickr

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Wow, Ross! Thanks for the warning. That is crazy grotesgue looking alright. A real oddity.

--Dennis

Yeah, pretty crazy. Looks like an E.T. snake.
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I meant hole not whole. Brain fart.
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Yeah, that's too bad, Ross. You'll see more grotesgue stuff too as time goes by. It's just the way it is sometimes.

Geez man, it looks like it was hatched out of "Area 51"..

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

hahahaha Yeah, no doubt.
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Looks like that one read the wrong definition of Bonding....

Had that happen to a couple pueblan milks a few years ago. I was thinking it may have had to do with some high temps during incubation??
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Joe

I was incubating them at room temp and during the last two weeks, it got really hot. I don't have air conditioning, so I was forced to allow the temps to rise to 85-86º during the day for about a week strait. Out of 35 eggs, that was the only one I had a problem with. The snake was all fused together, so I don't think it was caused by the heat that came way later in incubation. I've thought a lot about it and I can't pin anything to it.
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