I'm only asking this based on a clutch I hatched last year, All the babies ended up hatching just fine but there was one egg that I accidentally knocked a thermometer on and it tore a hole into it. It happened on day 45 so there was a good bit of time where that egg was open/exposed before the rest, tho it hadn't pipped yet. Most of the clutch I still have in my collection and that one baby has a different color than the rest of the hatchlings. Even as everyone is in the 200g range some close to 300.
This hatchlings color is off ,I'd like to think it as genetic given that the sire is somewhat the same color, although I didn't have the benefit of seen the sire as a hatchling,they do have similarities, but given that the hatchling's egg was opened a solid week+ before everyone else started to pip makes me think its color may have been caused because of that. I'd just like to know has anyone else ever had any hatchling who's appearance was affected by the egg being opened to early or does that really have no affect on color development?