Am i too soft?

When I used to maintain/breed dragons outdoors, sometimes I would miss clutches being laid, and babies would eventually emerge out of the ground about 5 months later(70-75 degree temps underground). Only about 40% of the clutch would auctually make it out of the ground. These dragons always had next to zero mortality rate. They were fast growers, never saw any deformities, runts, etc. As adults, these dragons always made good breeders, both males and females. In captivity, we are hatching and growing up everything. Since we don't have nature doing it, it is the breeders responsibility to remove any "genetic junk". We only have so much to work with. Without doing this, the problems we have with the already polluted dragon gene pool will get much worse.

Josh

I had one hatch without a tail, and it displayed the same problems with balance, and was always upside down. after about a week he was staying upright and running after crickets but if he had to turn left or right, he'd flip. He only survived a few weeks.