I pipped (warning not so alive baby)

[Zynx_Keekeio]

the egg was becoming very soft and it was a good full week past hatch date so I pipped it and inside was the most beautiful fully formed baby, but dead....Should I have waited, or was it going to be dead either way? Oh I feel so bad I'm crying right now (i seem to do a lot of this yes) but this by far has to be the most tragic thing, I feel so bad for the little thing it' sonly 3 grams, but gorgeous!! See how gorgeous it was... no deformities or anything....oh I should have waited, do you think my pipping killed it?

it was the meekest little egg!
and I cut it too on accident

*sigh*

 

[Mel&Keith]

I'm sorry! If it wasn't moving when you opened the egg it was probably already dead.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

I'm sorry! If it wasn't moving when you opened the egg it was probably already dead.

yeah it wasn't moving, so yeah i think it was dead but it's so sad
it did make it through two power outages and outrages temperatures for the first two weeks

 

[snakegirl]

oh am so sorry, But it doesn't sound like you killed it. they are very active when in the egg, if it wasn't moving it wasn't alive. and that means there was no way it would have hatched anyway.

 

[Kristi23]

I'm sorry that the baby didn't make it.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

it'll be okay, thank you guys for your condolences

 

[Baoh]

Looks like it died before finalization of development.

In the future, if you do this, flip them on their backs and shine a white LED against the skin while looking at the chest. If it's a alive and you angle the LED properly, you should see an obvious heartbeat. If it has a heartbeat, but isn't breathing, then you pipped too early. Lung development completion usually occurs last before hatching.

That's why I once mentioned a supertiny dab of corticosteroid cream on the skin in premies. Helps speed the process (if you're really lucky).

I don't pip unless I'm pretty sure the animal is dead in the egg. My animals are pretty much either going to make it or not. The urge is strong, though, I must admit.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

Looks like it died before finalization of development.

In the future, if you do this, flip them on their backs and shine a white LED against the skin while looking at the chest. If it's a alive and you angle the LED properly, you should see an obvious heartbeat. If it has a heartbeat, but isn't breathing, then you pipped too early. Lung development completion usually occurs last before hatching.

That's why I once mentioned a supertiny dab of corticosteroid cream on the skin in premies. Helps speed the process (if you're really lucky).

I don't pip unless I'm pretty sure the animal is dead in the egg. My animals are pretty much either going to make it or not. The urge is strong, though, I must admit.

Sorry for your loss.

thanks for the tip, although I hope that I won't have to do this again for a long while.

But the egg never moved

 

[Baoh]

thanks for the tip, although I hope that I won't have to do this again for a long while.

But the egg never moved

To be clear, I was talking about the animal itself, not the egg. I do not suggest flipping eggs.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

To be clear, I was talking about the animal itself, not the egg. I do not suggest flipping eggs.

oh right I got that part XD lol I wouldn't even attempt it otherwise, id' hvae been afraid I'd mess it up!

 

[chachasushi]

I'm sorry for your loss! It was a beautiful baby

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

I'm sorry for your loss! It was a beautiful baby

thank you

It'll be okay though, poor thing just had to be born into a world of inexperieness