On our first breeding last year. We had seven clutches. Out of those clutches our 4th clutch was a male yellowbelly 100% albino to an albino female. She laid 8 eggs. All eggs were healthy and had viable veins. 20 days into incubation one of the eggs was rotten and died. The other came to day 57 and we cut them. They all appeared healthy. Until I started to noticed their lower jaws just like yours. They all ended up having this deformation. One baby died in the egg. And the 6 others all came out of their eggs. We tried to see if they would feed, but they couldn't. I don't even think that any of them really had tongues. It was probably the hardest clutch I ever had to witness. And even a harder one to make a decision to euthanize. Me and my boyfriend were sad. But I was an emotional sap. I would hold them and love them. But cry at the thought that they would never be able to drink or eat. And that I wouldn't be able to see them grow. My boyfriend called vets to get their opinions. All of them have given him advise on how to euthanize them. We tried to do it but it was hard. We failed the first time because we were weak and thought that maybe there would be a chance they could eat again. But we were wrong. Two other babies died under our watch and they died because we couldn't get them to eat I'm sure. We finally realized how wrong we were and euthanized them the way the vet suggested. It's hard to make that choice since how much we love animals. But we needed to do it the first time and never turned back, because then those babies that suffered would have suffered less pain. Dying from starvation and thirst was terrible. I hope to never have to witness this kind of clutch again. But I know that breeding comes with that territory and we will most likely have to deal with in at some point or another.
There was no incubation errors or peaks. All the other clutches were super healthy. They yellowbelly fathered another clutch and all the babies were wonderful as well.
We believe that either the pairing was bad or the female is not suppose to produce. But it was her first clutch and we don't know the true answers. But I am so very sorry that you had a clutch like this happen to you. My love and thoughts are with you.
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