We definitely aren't going to cull these animals as long as missing one or both eyes is their only deformity. Since they aren't even out of the egg yet we don't know the full story. I'm truly hoping they do well regardless of their imperfection and I'm sure they'll be beautiful animals. I already have plans to build a display cage for the one that we know is completely eyeless. I think it will make a great pet. We will likely find homes for the others, as long as they are healthy and good feeders. We'll have to wait and see what happens. We are disappointed that these aren't "perfect" but we've had perfect pieds from this pairing before, so I'm sure we will again.
While I had thought that our incubator was stable, I am starting to believe that there were some problems this year, perhaps due to the temperature of the room the incubator was in, which may have made the incubator warmer than it should have been. Though this was never indicated on the probes we had in the incubator nor on the helix. This is something we'll be looking into on the off-season to make sure that there aren't any incubation issues in the future. We also had a clown clutch in the incubator at the exact same time and on the same level of the incubator, so we're waiting to see if there are any problems with those guys. The one that's out looks perfectly fine, but there are 5 or 6 others that we're waiting to pip. We will post pics of all of the pieds once they're out.
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