Sadness and Triumpth. WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES!!

So today was day 53 of the clutch with which I have been having incubator issues. One of the eggs has looked really bad for the last 10 days or so, and I have little hope for it. Inside I found a mostly formed but dead baby with lots of kinks. He looked VERY underdeveloped, with a ton of yolk left considering they have been incubated at 88-89 degrees:

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Stillborn1.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g.../Stillborn.jpg

On the bright side, the other eggs all looked to be at a normal stage of development. I would love it if you all would play the guessing game with me. Pairing is a Pastel het Hypo to Mojave Het Hypo. I have my own guesses, but I'll keep them to myself:

Egg 1:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Album/Egg1.jpg

Egg 2:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Album/Egg2.jpg

Egg 3:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Album/Egg3.jpg

Egg 4:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Album/Egg4.jpg

Egg 5:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Album/Egg5.jpg

Egg 6:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Album/Egg6.jpg

Sorry about that one baby :( All of the others look beautiful, though!

Sorry about that. Poor little guy. From what I've seen around here, the eggs are tough enough to deal with most incubator issues and so he probably would not have made it anyway. Are you sure they're kinks or is he just curled up and stiff? Can you tell what stage of development he's at?

I'm soo terrible at recognizing morphs as babies. I think 4 and six are pastels because they have that orange. Maybe 1 as well. 5 looks like a mojave. 3 looks almost normal. I can barely see 2, but the colors say maybe mojave? I don't even know what baby hypos are supposed to look like, so nuts to that. Like I said I'm sooo bad at this, but there's your guessing game for you.

sorry bout your loss....
my guesses
1 normal het ghost maybe a mojave cant see pattern well
2 pastave ghost
3 mojave
4 pastel ghost/normal ghost
5 mojave ghost
6 pastel ghost/or pastel

I am guessing 3 hypos , 2 pastels and one normal!

Thanks guys! I am comforted by the fact that all the remaining babies moved at some point while I was messing with them, in addition to looking much larger/healthier and me seeing no signs of giant remaining yolks. Thanks for the guesses.I think they are fun, and I am VERY interested to see what crawls out.

Also, if anyone has pictures of a hypo in the egg I would love to see them. Having never hatched a hypo, I don't know what to expect.

Send egg 2 to me. I'll keep you updated!

Congrats!

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Originally Posted by Jason Bowden

Send egg 2 to me. I'll keep you updated!

Congrats!

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Unfortunately egg two is attached to eggs 1 and 3. I don't think they would ship well as a group. ;)

I would say egg two is a hypo mojave :)