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