Peeked in to an egg to

[SlitherinSisters]

Yeah, color is the last thing to come in.

Yeah I didn't realize it was cut that early. That would definitely explain the lack of color.

No picture yet I assume he/she is still doing fine? It looks really sweet!

[Quiet Tempest]

It's a cute snake, but I think it was cut way too early and what you said about it at reptileradio conflicts a bit with what you said here ("it crawled out" vs. "I pulled it out"). Being too handsy with a neonate that hasn't finished developing can't be in its best interest. Just my two pennies.

[chaos]

It's a cute snake, but I think it was cut way too early and what you said about it at reptileradio conflicts a bit with what you said here ("it crawled out" vs. "I pulled it out"). Being too handsy with a neonate that hasn't finished developing can't be in its best interest. Just my two pennies.

you do things your way i do things my way ..... my way works for me
and have been doing it for a long time !
and as far as the statement on reptile radio bush league it was a joke

[WingedWolfPsion]

I've cut eggs too early accidentally before, but never had an issue arise from it. The primary concern is that bacteria can then penetrate the egg--so it's possible to lose a snake if its immune system cannot fight off the nasties that would get in. However, they certainly seem to be remarkably hardy.

I usually cut eggs at day 50, if I"m going to cut them at all, or I wait until the first one pips, and then snip the rest to prevent problems. I can say, though, that even 3 or 4 days prior to hatching, they may have no color yet. That truly is the last thing to come in before they pip. The yolk isn't absorbed until they pip, either--the size of the yolk sac in the second photo is completely normal for a pipping snake. I had a snake emerge with a yolk sac that size. I set it up on wet paper towel, and it absorbed most of it before severing the cord. That sac is actually half the size they are when the snake first cuts the egg. Nothing to worry about, even if it happened to break the cord at that point.

[gangsta]

you do things your way i do things my way ..... my way works for me
and have been doing it for a long time !
and as far as the statement on reptile radio bush league it was a joke

Nice pin.

[chaos]

Just took this pic from my HTC evo

[moravaguy]

nice i like that

[Quiet Tempest]

you do things your way i do things my way ..... my way works for me
and have been doing it for a long time !
and as far as the statement on reptile radio bush league it was a joke

You first posted about cutting the egg on RR on the 14th of May, then opened it wider a few days later and posted pics of the widened egg here on the 19th, and remarked on RR that you pulled it out on June 2nd to check out its pattern and commented on its markings, here you said it crawled out of its egg and you put it back.. I don't see the joke.

You first posted images of it being cut on May 14th and it has taken until now for it to leave its egg so I'm going to guess that you cut it around Day 30 or shortly thereafter - well before it was ready. It was so early that color hadn't developed and most who commented on the pics (including yourself) thought it was a superform. If you didn't recognize the lack of color as being a result of early cutting, I'd also go so far as to wager that you don't routinely cut this early. I'm glad your baby made it, but you could very easily have lost it through infection or premature evacuation. Keepers who are considering breeding their snakes may see threads like this and wind up needlessly endangering the lives of their own hatchlings.

I'm not looking for confrontation but you're not even willing to divulge how far into development this egg was when you cut it which tells me that what you've done is something controversial among breeders. I hope all of your hatchlings cope as well as the one featured here did but I also hope that others don't try to follow suit.

[gangsta]

You first posted about cutting the egg on RR on the 14th of May, then opened it wider a few days later and posted pics of the widened egg here on the 19th, and remarked on RR that you pulled it out on June 2nd to check out its pattern and commented on its markings, here you said it crawled out of its egg and you put it back.. I don't see the joke.

You first posted images of it being cut on May 14th and it has taken until now for it to leave its egg so I'm going to guess that you cut it around Day 30 or shortly thereafter - well before it was ready. It was so early that color hadn't developed and most who commented on the pics (including yourself) thought it was a superform. If you didn't recognize the lack of color as being a result of early cutting, I'd also go so far as to wager that you don't routinely cut this early. I'm glad your baby made it, but you could very easily have lost it through infection or premature evacuation. Keepers who are considering breeding their snakes may see threads like this and wind up needlessly endangering the lives of their own hatchlings.

I'm not looking for confrontation but you're not even willing to divulge how far into development this egg was when you cut it which tells me that what you've done is something controversial among breeders. I hope all of your hatchlings cope as well as the one featured here did but I also hope that others don't try to follow suit.

Dude, If you go to the boi you will find way more people to talk$ about.. I love reading the noobs posts. You guys crack me up!

[chaos]

You make me laugh I have been breding reptiles since 1989
So I don't know what to tell you . My babys usually come out at day 52 to day 55 and the pic taken the other day was like day 64 (but don't jump on my a@% if I'm a day off ....I'm at the flyers game ) and yes I tend to cut at day thirty and I know all about color change and all and I said I doubt it was the super but nobody knows what it will look like ..... question how many eggs did you produce last year and how many did you lose....
Out of several hundred babys I lost one due to its heart on the outside....
So enough said ....... back to something more important!
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