Last clutch hatching

[Redneck_Crow]

I'd offer him food with the rest of the hatchlings before I made a decision on his future. If he can and will eat, I wouldn't put him down. He might make someone a nice pet snake.

I can understand how you feel. I ended up with 3 cleft palate pups in a litter of show dogs once. One of them was able to be repaired because it wasn't very bad and even though he had showdog conformation I had him neutered and his mouth fixed and he became an old guy's pet and lived a long and contented life. 2 pups had defects that were so bad that the vet said they probably couldn't be repaired and I had them put down at 2 days old. I never bred their mother again, either. In dogs cleft palate is definitely heritable. Her former owner had a litter from her with the same problem.

I don't think that facial deformities are the same for snakes. I think they tend to be incubation problems, but I really don't know.