Yellow Belly Freak.. graphic picture warning

Its has been a good year so far.... But..

I guess when you get more clutches more things can go wrong and you can hit some of negative things..
I started with a clutch from Albino X Het Albino this year.. there was 5 eggs, when the time come to hatching there was 3 albino and 2 het's.
one of the albino died in the egg.. the snake was wrapped in the umbilical cord and made a knot on it... hmm bad luck..

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/200...6052009441.jpg

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/200...6052009444.jpg

My 4th clutch was from Pinstripe X Normal..
5 eggs.. When the time to hatch come there was 4 pinstripes and 1 normal.. the one pinstripe died in the egg...
the same way as the albino did... the snake was wrapped in the umbilical cord and made a knot out of it...

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/200...1072009518.jpg

My 7th clutch was from Yellow Belly X Normal..
6 eggs.. the 5 babies hatch on day 53 (2 Yellow Bellys and 3 Normal) and one Yellow belly was sitting in the egg..
it hatched on day 56 and I have never see a snake that deformed.. the head was a mess and it was kinked all the way down from the neck to the tail..
what a freak..

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/2009/22/DSC_0638.jpg

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/2009/22/DSC_0636.JPG

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/2009/22/DSC_0640.jpg

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/2009/22/DSC_0641.jpg

http://www.snake-zone.com/images/2009/22/DSC_0639.jpg

YouTube - Yellow Belly Freak

I don't know what makes the snake turn out that way..
It can be like when human gets handicapped babies or it can be caused by to high temperature swing.
Hope this is the first and last i ever see..

were u inbreeding

wow that is so sad. RIP baby BPs :(

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by DarkComeSoon

were u inbreeding

---

No...

Please put it down as soon as possible, It will not beable to kill its prey or swallow it at all. Sorry this happened.

Out of all that I have to say the one thats still alive is the saddest case.... :( (i thought it was dead by the pictures)

the other are unfortunate too... idk what else to say....

Man I feel sorry for you dude. It sucks when stuff like this happens but it will always happen even to the biggest and best of them all.

Daniel

I had a deformed hatchling in the 100% Het Pied x 66% P. Het Pied clutch. It looked very similar to that YB. It sat in the egg longer than the others so I had to cut and that's what I discovered. I euthanized it immediately. It hardly had a mouth. I just had 3 other clutches hatch this week and everyone was healthy and one other clutch had hatched before the Het Pied so I don't know what happened.

I feel your pain I lost 5 eggs at day 45 two Bee's 2 pastels 1 spider,don't really know what happened,it sucks.

sorry man

I jsut stumbled across this thread, what ever happened to the snake, I hope you put it down because I myself wouldnt want to let it continue suffering. That is the craziest thing I have ever seen go wrong with snakes. Im terribly sorry about everything you went through during the season.

With all the new people wanting to jump head first on the BP breeding bandwagon these days, this thread is great reference that things dont always turn out peachy, then one can ask, can I really deal with it when things go south?

Yes, and I want to say, if you're breeding, this WILL happen, eventually. Probably more than once. Things don't always go right, and sometimes animals are born with deformities. Causes vary--genetics, developmental problems, etc.

Temperature accidents are the most common cause. I saw a corn snake hatchling that had its spine bent in half, and its body was grown together along the sides. One eye or no eyes also happens, and mouth deformities.

As careful as we are, an accident is called an accident for a reason--if something happens to a thermostat, or an air conditioning unit, while we are away...it only takes an hour or two at the wrong time in development to do things like this.

Humane euthanasia--either take to a vet, or (horrible, but humane) smash the head quickly. Freezing is not humane.
Because of the way the reptilian metabolism works, instant destruction of the brain, as thorough as possible, will result in the least amount of suffering.

I think you need to assume you will get a deformed snake at some point. Part of the breeding process. Mother nature's way.

I do think it is very unfortuneate that you lost the two with the cords, especially since that is a luck of the draw situation. :(

I lost a snake my first season that same way as well. If you catch it early enough you can work with it, but not easily. (I popped mine out of the egg to fix it and she ended up with hardbelly afterwards and died regardless).

So sorry you have to deal with this, it sucks. :(

Bruce

It is sad that the little YB turned out that way, but sometimes that happens, be it developmental or ambient issues.....I would be even more distraught about the umbilical cases :( What an unfortunate thing to happen to what would have been otherwise healthy and beautiful babies.

Sorry to hear of your losses. Congrats on your healthy babies!

did you have a serious temp spike during part of the incubation period?
a bad deformity + 2 restless (tied themselves up) dead in the egg babies seems more than 'a bit of bad luck'

Oh, the poor little turnip. And how weird that something seems to be affecting every clutch--do you think this an incubator problem of some sort?

I think you filled your "unlucky" cup completely to the top in one breeding season.

WOW,
Jim Smith