On May 4th, day 54 of incubation, one baby from my clutch of 7 eggs pipped, so I decided to cut the rest that day. I avoided cutting veins and placed them back in the incubator for them to emerge on their own. They all came out over the course of two days, and all yolk sacs had been absorbed and their belly buttons closed. Seemingly perfect babies!

Maybe it's jut coincidence, but all except that one that pipped are terrible feeders. She was impressive, eating 2 days after her first shed, an f/t pinky rat, no less, and has been pounding them ever since. One I have only gotten to eat 4 times on its own. The rest have to be assist fed as no trick in the book has worked. One of them hasn't even had its first shed.

My question is, Could there be a correlation between eggs not allowed to pip on their own and insecure babies? Or did I just get a very weak clutch of animals?