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Help with a Hatchling

NPasquinelli

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I have one hatchling out of my four egg clutch that decided to venture out of the egg before his yolk sack was absorbed. Yesterday I wasn't that concerned because he didn't seem strong enough to do any damage but today he is much more active and pulled a portion of the sack with him out of the egg.

I cleaned the bits of incubation medium off of him and the sack and placed it on a damp paper towel but I'm not sure what else to do. Does anyone that has had this issue before have advice? Or should I just let him drag it around?
 

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u need to put maybe in a seperate tub with high humidity with paper towels and hope that does not break off,, hope it will be ok,, thats why i told you not to cut super big holes in eggs with no experience and first clutch,, u should of just cut a line in egg with small window and just posted after they have came out on there own.... it just takes working and learning to gain experience of this hobby... good luck with the snake and hope it does well and pulls thru.....
 
It wasnt cut that big before he started crushing on the edges of the egg (he pretty much just flattened it out). I took the top off but the sides were still intact....still bigger that I should have cut. Lesson learned.
He is already in a separate tub on paper towels with 95-98% humidity.
 
I'm not sure the paper towel route is good either. I would tell you to try and do something make shift where you could keep an eye on it. Maybe cut a 20 oz water bottle with 2" or so and fill it a little with distilled water. you could put something around the outside to help it feel more secure like electrical tape. If it stays in you could monitor it's absorbtion of the sac. If it is not going down you may need to cut it off, but you need to get a tutorial first. Hope someone else may have beeter advice. Good luck on this.
 
Montoya said:
I'm not sure the paper towel route is good either. I would tell you to try and do something make shift where you could keep an eye on it. Maybe cut a 20 oz water bottle with 2" or so and fill it a little with distilled water. you could put something around the outside to help it feel more secure like electrical tape. If it stays in you could monitor it's absorbtion of the sac. If it is not going down you may need to cut it off, but you need to get a tutorial first. Hope someone else may have beeter advice. Good luck on this.
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yea craig, she cut super big holes in these eggs to show everyone what was in them instead of doing small holes and showing off later after hatching,,alot of people do this and not good,, it leads to babies coming out before time and also drains the liquid out of the eggs and dry up early and babies then have dehydration of skin and cord does not fall off because of dryness,,alot of babies like this end up dead or make it for a few weeks and die...i just cut my eggs across under half way and do a small window to view snake then write a letter on egg with pencil of the morph in it, if i can tell, if i can not, i leave alone till hatched, then i post pics once out of egg and cleaned up...word of wisdom and a learning practice for her,, i dont mind helping people cut eggs and showing them my way with none ever deaths.. its not worth a dead snake matter what it is worth.. good luck with baby girl...
 
Have the others pipped yet? It will be noticeable each day as most absorb within a few days of the pip. This can get twisted or even knotted. Try something that can hold in and make it feel more secure so it stays there. If it burns to much energy moving all over the tub because it doesn't feel secure, you will most likley lose it.
 
I expect the yolk will not be absorbed. There should be a large red vein thats connecting the hatchling to the yolk. Hopefully it absorbed enough to last until it starts eating. I would make sure this hatchling eats before the 1 month mark if the yolk does become detached. Good luck!
 
I would say yolk will not be absorbed to much air flow around it needs to stay wet. Only thing you can do is hope for the best and next time do not cut until they pip. whats the rush 1 or two days more even a week its better to wait than lose babys after all that wait.
 
It sure is tough being a first-timer and trying to learn to cut. I agree, it looks to have been cut too big. But hopefully all is not lost.

If it were me, now, depending on how much yolk has been absorbed, if any, I would try using a syringe with a rubber tube (tiny tube) and suck some of the yolk out. Then feed it to the baby.

Then, see if it will make it past its shed. Then make sure you feed it right after shed--possibly needing to force feed it.

Good luck and keep us posted.
 
Do not try to tone feed yolk into stomach, you do not know what you are doing nothing good will come from it. See what happens then after shed just get it feeding, I had one come out of egg last year with a dropped sac and it ate fine ended up being a hold back and a great feeder.
 
I would get a very small Tupperware ( small enough to discourage the snake moving) and fill it with some water- ideally same temp as incubator, and put that in the incubator.

Its either that- or you are gonna have to tie it off and cut it- which I don't really know much to do to advice you.

You do, however, do not want him crawing around with it in fear it will snag and injur the baby.
 
Nicola, Janet has the right of it. Put the baby and yolk in a small tupperware with moistened paper towels and stick it back in the incubator. The umbilical looks like it's in rough shape. At this point the snake may not be able to absorb nutrients from the yolk. You may have to tie it off with some fishing line or unflavored dental floss, but I'd give it a day. The last thing you need is for the yolk to start rotting on you because it has been exposed to pathogens.

I don't know about tube feeding a hatchling. I probably wouldn't resort to that, as the stress alone may kill the animal. I would probably resort to waiting it out. Hopefully it will survive the week to first shed to eat its first meal.
 
when u posting pics of this clutch out of the eggs,,hopefully some of them babies made it ok,, we want to see what u hit in that clutch.....let us all know,, thanks
 
The only reason I suggested tube feeding was in association with advice on a hatchling with a twisted umbilical. Others have guessed here that this yolk won't be absorbed. If it won't be absorbed, the hatchling doesn't have much to live on, as far as nutrients.

What day of incubation did it come out? Have the others pipped? How is this one looking?
Good luck!
 
I had him confined in a small tupperware container but he manages to twist if off anyway. I will just have to wait and feed him right after his first shed. He is very active and alert so I am hoping he pulls through. He was already out of his egg completely on day 54 before the others pipped on 55. Other babies fully absorbed their yolk sac fully before leaving the egg but they were all cut the same way.
 
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