You don't always get great odds, and perfect animals.
My breeding season so far has not been that great (well except for one clutch) but that's part of the game.
When you breed you take the good and the bad, you'll have to deal with bad odds, death, deformed babies etc.
Anyone that wants to get into breeding better think about all that before they start it's not all cool looking babies hatching the majority of the time.
Now as far as cutting can cutting have cause the issue it's possible, I do not recommend cutting to anyone, you should know what you are doing and know the risk involved, I have always cut and never lost an hatchling due to cutting the only one that were DOA were DOA before I cut.
For the rest it's just bad luck and there is always next season![]()