Help! Hatchling tipped over and came out while still attached to umbilical cord!

Help! We had a hatchling pip this morning, then a couple hours later tipped over and came out of his egg with the umbilicus still attached (See picture below). He is laying mostly on his back and just looks quite uncomfortable.

This is our first clutch of eggs to hatch and have already lost several to twisted umbilical cords and hard yolks. Just want to know if there is anything we can do or if he just isn't going to make it. We are new to this and just want to do everything we can to see that these little guys can live long and lives!

http://i.imgur.com/dvYY4s7.png

Well, I don't see him going back into the egg.

Get an 8 oz deli cup or similar sized clean plastic food container with a lid, fold up a a paper towel and put it in the bottom, dampen the paper towel slightly, and put the little guy in that along with any egg yolk that's left, assuming the yolk is not hard. Poke some air holes into the lid and put that on top so he doesn't climb out, and leave him there until his yolk is absorbed.

He has straightened out and is wrapped around his egg, which he is still attached to, but is looking a little better. It looks like the umbilical has decreased in size compared to a couple hours ago, but he definitely needs to finish absorbing what is left (as long as it isn't a hard yolk).

I will put him in a deli cup with the moistened towel so he won't drag the egg around and can finish absorbing the yolk.

http://i.imgur.com/mf2gleK.jpg?2

Not related to the flipping issue (hope be makes it) but that guy has a really neat funky pattern. What was the pairing?

Enchi Mojave Spider to Lemonblast. We're not yet sure what he is, any guesses would be welcomed.

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Good looking baby!


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That little guy is very good looking!! I'm sure he'll be just fine soon enough.

Please do show us the rest of the clutch once they are out!

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Originally Posted by hockeygirl28

Enchi Mojave Spider to Lemonblast. We're not yet sure what he is, any guesses would be welcomed.

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Looks like an Enchi Pastel to me. Nice one at that. Best of luck with it and looking forward to seeing the whole clutch when ready.

Whatever he is I second the more clutch pictures!

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Well, I don't see him going back into the egg.

Get an 8 oz deli cup or similar sized clean plastic food container with a lid, fold up a a paper towel and put it in the bottom, dampen the paper towel slightly, and put the little guy in that along with any egg yolk that's left, assuming the yolk is not hard. Poke some air holes into the lid and put that on top so he doesn't climb out, and leave him there until his yolk is absorbed.

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^This^

The yolk should shrink within the next 48 hours if not you will have to cut it off (ask for advice when if this is the case)

I will also touch on this

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This is our first clutch of eggs to hatch and have already lost several to twisted umbilical cords and hard yolks.

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In my experience cutting (sometimes too early) and messing with the eggs (checking on them) once cut will lead to tangled umbilicus. Tangles umbilicus are RARE the fact that you experienced this several times being new is not normal.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

^This^

The yolk should shrink within the next 48 hours if not you will have to cut it off (ask for advice when if this is the case)

I will also touch on this



In my experience cutting (sometimes too early) and messing with the eggs (checking on them) once cut will lead to tangled umbilicus. Tangles umbilicus are RARE the fact that you experienced this several times being new is not normal.

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We only had 1 die from the tangled umbilical. The other 4 died from hard yolk (they were green eggs, which I posted about earlier.)

We never even cut the egg that died from the tangled umbilical. Just bad luck I suppose.

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By any chance, did you have any temperature fluctuations during incubation?
I'm not sure if that increases the odds of umbilical issues, but it can cause odd patterning, kind of like what that baby has.

Of course, I could be WAY off base, and it's just a cool aberrant enchi-something. [emoji12] Either way, it's a beautiful snake and I hope he makes it!

Hockeygirl28, sorry about the mishap with the little guy. Hope all turns out well. Great looking hatchling! :gj:

We ended up losing the little enchi pastel [emoji20] we tried to deli cup with moistened towel. It looked like the fall ended up pulling some umbilical back out of him [emoji20] seems so unlucky.

On a positive note, the last two hatched out fine, but we could use some help identifying them. As requested, here they are:

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06...868580d65a.jpg

We think the guy on the right is a lemon blast because he's got a faded grayish purple head. The guy on the left we think is a jigsaw blast, though not sure because he does seem to have some funky patterning. Here's a better picture:

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06...aef38c14ff.jpg

If anyone has a better idea, let me know!

Thanks!

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Aw, I'm sorry you lost him. I was really excited to see what he looked like out. These other two look great however!

I'm sorry to hear that you lost him. :(

In my fairly amateur opinion, I think you've identified them correctly. Beautiful little babies!

Wow that little guys pattern is really wacky, and im sorry for your loss

Im just hoping that is just a eye trick in the picture, but it looks as if he has a slight kink in lower end?

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Im just hoping that is just a eye trick in the picture, but it looks as if he has a slight kink in lower end?

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Which one?

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Sorry for the demise of the little guy. Good luck with the rest! :gj: