Ah of course with my luck this happens on my first clutch. Two hatchlings came out two days ago. They had pipped on their own. When that happened I moved mom to her own tub and cut the remaining eggs. Two of the three that I cut have been absorbing yokes and working on coming out. The third I didn't notice any movement from and seemed to be kind coiled upside-down with a big yolk. After two days none of the yoke had absorbed. The snake didn't move and I panicked and thought he was dead so I cut the egg open. He still had the sack around him so I broke that open. The yoke felt super rubbery and I attempted to move some yoke through the cord and it was just rubber. So I tied the umbilicus off with dental floss and severed the yolk from the hatchling. The hatchling looks SO deflated. And weak. It moves but doesn't seem to have much neck control.I'm worried it's not going to have the strength to come around without getting its yolk. At what point would I force-feed him a pinky? I'm worried that would stress it out and kill it as well. I set it in a little bowl with some soaked cotton pads under an empty radiant heat pad I have.
I've been trying to search threads and it seems like all the other hatchlings were strong and appeared pretty much normal. I can't find any information on when I should attempt to feed it, assuming it makes it today.
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