Sad neonate Death

[Dom]

My jungle carpets just hatch ..

17-18 .. pretty happy about it except for one of them ..

About a week ago, the bottom of the egg started turning green and hardening (only bottom) .. I hoped for the best .. Two mornings ago, after almost all the other babies were hatched, I open the top of the egg to see a cute fully formed (but smaller) baby moving in his egg.

So I left him alone so he could soak up the yolk and come out when his ready .. I oppened the incubator that same evening to find him FULLY out of his egg dead .. He strangled himself with his obilical cord. He wraped it once around himself, then back around the cord itsself.

Really sad, the animal lived for a few minutes b4 dying ...

Is this commun? Has it ever happenned to anyone else?

Ill have pics up in a few days

Dom

[thunder]

this sort of thing actually happens a lot with every species that has an umbilical cord. it even happens to human beings. i should know, i was a c-section because i had wrapped my umbilical cord around my neck.

[gonesnakee]

I have had ones that were pipped with head out, scared back in & unable to find their way back out again & drowned. The first clutch of Children's I ever had one died like this. When I cut it open you could see it had its mouth wide open around one of its coils trying to push up, but was stuck on itself. What can ya do, Mark

[thunder]

ive also had babies drown in the egg, but i had thought it was because they were to weak to finish hatching.

[Dom]

Thanks for the input guys .. I still feel horrible for the little guy .. he lived a few seconds..

[SnakeyeZ]

Too Sad, sorry about your loss.

[Dan_Kaye]

im sorry about that, he really proberbly didn't know what was what though
so you should not feel bad about yourself
-Dan

[BoidsUnlimited]

Thats really unfortunate....but nature takes its course, and it did. Dont beat yourself up over it.

Thanks,

Don

PS - I havent talked to you in awhile Dom...how have you been?