Culling mutated hatchlings:

[nevohraalnavnoj]

DB, I wasn't judging your action, merely giving you the info. Even vets used to recommend freezing for reptile euthanasia. Further study on it showed that reptiles do not simply go to sleep in the freezer, but very likely suffer. This fact isn't widely known in the herp community yet.

I would guess they are unable to process this suffering due to slowed body processes, including the capacity for handling information. This is only my conjecture.

JonV