Hard lesson learned.
I absolutely hate this cutting business. It has its place, such as cutting when one has piped and the others are late.
Want to make sure they can get out of they have no egg tooth. Even then..a small slit is all that is needed.
Then some breeders couldn't wait to see what was in the eggs and started cutting for that reason. Then you would see people cutting huge windows out of the eggs..the entire top gone. Then earlier and earlier
They very much are shy snakes right out of the egg. Often retreating back into the eggs after peeking out when they see movement. I can't fathom their stress laying there so very exposed. And all the bacteria floating around..able to get in. Even seen maggots on hatchlings in the eggs.
Hobby and first time breeders see it done all over YouTube and the Internet and copy it.
Twisted umbilical can and has killed hatchlings. It's quite possible that they get tangled when they are stresses and moving/jumping around because of it.
Cutting should only be performed by highly knowledgable people and only for good reasons. In my humble opinion.
I am sorry you had to learn this the hard way and I'm not trying to beat on you while you are down. This is a valuable lesson for others to read about, so thank you for sharing this experience even though it couldn't have been easy..
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