Bad News! Warning; Graphic Picture.

[muddoc]

Well, first off the odds Gods threw me a curve ball, and only gave me 1 Albino out of 7 eggs. One egg went bad after two weeks of incubation. So the results were one Albino out of 6 viable eggs. This breeding was from an Albino male to a Het. Albino female. Odds say I should have gotten 3 Albinos. Well, I was at least happy with hatching one, especially since this was the first morph that was going to hatch at our facility. As some of you know, I work offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, and won't be home until Thursday. My wife is kind enough to send me pics of major happenings in the snake room while I am at work. When I called her this morning, she had bad news for me. The pic below will help explain it. As of right now, the Albino is still alive, but is only half out of the egg. Talk about a kick in the Jewels. Hopefully I got all of my bad luck out of the way for this season. I know in the pic, the one thing you cannot see is that it is missing it's right eye all together. Sometimes breeding snakes can be very humbling. I know we see alot of great things, but this is a reminder that with the good comes the bad. Here is the pic.

Thanks for letting me get that of my chest,

[Emilio]

Wow mud man I'm so sorry to here that.That's terrible I have to repeat it again I'm very sorry.

[Evan Jamison]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck Tim. I hope your other clutches this season make up for it, and soon.


-Evan

[bait4snake]

Ok, this is really weird. A buddy of mine just hatched out a Het Albino that hatched w/o its eyes or the top jaw. It died a day later.
Is this an egg problem or a genetic problem? Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Weird coincidence me hearing about this twice in one week, and having never heard of it before.

[kavmon]

sorry tim, i know how you feel, we hatched a female pastel this year, runt at 35 grams and a major kink in the neck right behind the head... stuff happens and it most certainly humbles you. i'm just happy that overall everything is good.



vaughn

[muddoc]

Ken, I have talked to Sean at Exotics by Nature, which is where the Albino and Het female came from. He has not hatched anything like this from his Albino projects to date. That would tell me that it is not a genetic thing, but more than likely just bad luck. All of the Hets in this same clutch are fine. Thanks for the kind words everyone, as this has been a hard cookie to swallow.

[joepythons]

Wow like everyone else i am sorry to hear this has happened to you.Well here is 110% good luck wishes for the next breeding season .

[Wild Bill]

Sorry to hear about that Tim!!!

[MedusasOwl]

Geez, that's terrible... I'm sorry...

[bait4snake]

Here's the pic of someone else's het albino:

http://www.geocities.com/bait4snake/BirthDefect.jpg