I Had One Died In The Egg (GRAPHIC Image)

So one egg from my 2nd clutch never stuck a head out. Last night we found no movement and decided to cut egg completely and dump the contents out to see what was going on. I won't even directly show the image. So just click the link below. This is from my mystery clutch so I don't know the sire. A pinstripe, some normals, and a real unusual one also came out ok. I'll post pics later in a separate thread but right now I want to figure out what this is. It is obviously very kinked and not fully developed. And to be honest, it was technically alive still since we saw it twitch a little and saw blood pumping in external areas. It died shortly after. Not sure if thisis a morph or just another result of the incomplete development. Any ideas are appreciated.

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Well undeveloped could answer your question; BUT, as I stands now it looks pewterish or black pewterish

The same thing happened to me last year, a Cinnamon Calico died in the egg, just around 1 week before hatching :( Sucks, but it happens...

Looks like it may have been cool, what ever it was. I couldn't even see a head in there?? Sorry for your loss :(

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

Looks like it may have been cool, what ever it was. I couldn't even see a head in there?? Sorry for your loss :(

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There was only a partial lower jaw. I guess I'll never know what happened. I doubt the "cool" idea since all the other eggs in with it came out fine. It's had 88-89 the whole time. So unless a cool pot can form around just one egg I doubt that was it.

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There was only a partial lower jaw. I guess I'll never know what happened. I doubt the "cool" idea since all the other eggs in with it came out fine. It's had 88-89 the whole time. So unless a cool pot can form around just one egg I doubt that was it.

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I think you're misinterpreting "cool" to mean cold. I read it as "neat". Sorry for your loss.

That's rough, sorry man.

I had a baby die in the egg too! Mine was severely kinked and had a super skinny head. Looked more like a corn snake than a ball python.

Sorry for your loss.

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There was only a partial lower jaw. I guess I'll never know what happened. I doubt the "cool" idea since all the other eggs in with it came out fine. It's had 88-89 the whole time. So unless a cool pot can form around just one egg I doubt that was it.

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I meant cool as in neat looking. :rolleyes:
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I meant cool as in neat looking. :rolleyes:
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Oh lol. My bad.

Aww, poor baby. Sorry for your loss. Sounds like you did everything right, just one of those things that happens.

Maybe as simple as a deformity looks very incomplete so I don't even think it is a morph. Just looks incomplete.


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Fatal random mutation, or developmental error. They're actually very common in nature. Just something we breeders have to get used to, as it will happen once in a while. I usually get at least one every year, randomly. If we never cut the eggs, we would never see them.