Oh My God... Graphic images

[hotrod5603]

Today was a bittersweet. i had my 2nd clutch ever hatch. normalXpastel. 2 baby's hatched and the 3rd stuck it's head out. the 4th hadn't pipped so i decided to cut, i could tell immediately even with my limited experience something was very wrong. the sweet part was that all 4 babys are pastels. but sadly this 4th one was surely dead. I removed the egg from the incubator and cut the egg open to remove the snake. from the head to about 1/2 way down the body was INSIDE OUT?!?! ok wow that's weird. as i turned the snake over it MOVED! OMG this poor little thing is still alive. I could see the heart beating out in the open. has anyone ever seen this? and does anyone know what could have caused this?

here are pics of the babys






last chance if you don't want to see photos of the inside out snake












I took a short video showing the heart beating before i euthanized the poor little guy. again, be warned that it is graphic. YouTube - Inside out snake

[akaangela]

I am so sorry for your loss. It is hard to loose a baby.

[Drew87]

Sorry about the loss, the other two do look smokin

[JEWSKIN]

i'm sorry for your loss wow there have been some oddities this season when it comes to losses I am terribly sorry

[joepythons]

Wow that poor little one .So sorry this happened.

[davidnizmo]

wow that sucks and for it to be alive like that i quess u gotta take the bad with the good sorry for your loss the others look real good though

[Quiet Tempest]

I remember reading about a baby born with the heart on the outside before, but nothing like this. I'm so sorry!

[wolfy-hound]

There seems to be a lot of malformed babies(overall). I've heard of a few similiar but this is the first pics I've seen. Sorry for the loss, it's never easy to end up with a baby that obviously must be euthanized.
Better luck next clutch. Great looking other babies though.

[Kyle@theHeathertoft]

Terrible loss, I'm so sorry.

My roommate was born with a fair ammount of her organs outside her body...it's not a totally uncommon birth defect in humans and so I guess it happens from time to time with animals, too.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/huma...tside-body.htm

[hotrod5603]

wow that sucks and for it to be alive like that i quess u gotta take the bad with the good sorry for your loss the others look real good though

very true. I feel bad for the baby but I'm looking on the bright side that my pastel male gave me all pastel babies, I hope his high output of pastels continues when i breed him this upcoming season as he will have a few more females to tend to. Can't wait for the babies to shed to see how nice they stay. the last one is still in the egg, but it's head is out and i expect it to be out tomorrow morning. so far, i'm 1.1 and the female is a feisty little thing, she bit me 6 times in the time it took to pop her lol

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