I honestly don't think this had to do with genetics. The parents are unrelated as far as I know. Basically his umbilical cord was wrapped around his yolk sack which most likely caused a disruption in his flow of nutrients and in turn caused him to be under developed. His eyes were just one symptom. I don't think it was an incubation issue either because all his clutch mates were perfect and did great. Also, we had another clutch in the incubator at the same time which hatched out perfect as well.


Here is a picture of his yolk left behind in the egg.

http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMG_3578.jpg