We had our first major deformities "hatch". Clutch #9 of the season was a female Spider x male Pied. She gave us 3 "good" eggs, a boob that went bad and a slug. About a month into incubation we candled the eggs and one embryo just didn't look right. Yesterday we cut the clutch on day 55 and found one severely deformed baby that we decided euthanized right away and, after checking on them today, a second one with out eyes. The third seems to be ok.
Deformed baby -
In this picture you can see where the vent is on the lower left side
Baby that is still in the egg with out eyes -
We're not sure what the future holds for the eye-less hatchling but we'll definitely give it a chance. The little guy is alert and flicking it's tongue. I don't believe this to be an incubation issue as we had a perfectly healthy clutch come out last week.
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