Cutting 101

[gonesnakee]

Well other than the super lame music not bad, note that there is no verbal instructions so mute is a desirable option LOL
As for manual pipping in most all cases a healthy snake will successfully pip on its own.
In my past experiences I have found that more often than not manulally pipped eggs have contained snakes that are smaller, weaker & quite often deformed (spinal kinking, extra heads etc.).
Even snakes that have had normal appearrances have proved to be problem feeders or just randomly up & die potentially due to unseen internal issues.
I know you asked for no debate but I thought I would throw those points out there for those wondering what the debate is about as many feel very strongly about weakening the captive gene pools with snakes that otherwise never would have hatched.
Mother nature afterall tends to have her reasons.
Also keep in mind that in many cases the first snake to pip may be days potentially even a week prior the last snake to pip.
Sometimes if manually pipped too early tehy will also leave early & not get the full benefit of the yolk they would have otherwsie absorbed or they will sometimes emerge with it still attached & drag it around with them risking a rupture of their stomach in the bellybutton area or potential infection due tot hat or via the yolksac they are draging around.
Advantages being that in some cases it saves an otherwise perfect baby that may have drown.
personally I will wait until most all have pipped/hatched on thier own & then cut the last few if any remain. I will quite often take ones that have pipped on thier own & make the slices larger as well.
I have had many times in the past perfectly healthy babies get scared & pull back in only to not finding their way back out & drown which really sucks so enlarging their "escape hatch" LOL is never a bad idea.
Not a bad video anyhow though as stated not my type of music LOL Cheers Mark

[Bree]

Originally Posted by gonesnakee

Well other than the super lame music not bad, note that there is no verbal instructions so mute is a desirable option LOL
As for manual pipping in most all cases a healthy snake will successfully pip on its own.
In my past experiences I have found that more often than not manulally pipped eggs have contained snakes that are smaller, weaker & quite often deformed (spinal kinking, extra heads etc.).
Even snakes that have had normal appearrances have proved to be problem feeders or just randomly up & die potentially due to unseen internal issues.
I know you asked for no debate but I thought I would throw those points out there for those wondering what the debate is about as many feel very strongly about weakening the captive gene pools with snakes that otherwise never would have hatched.
Mother nature afterall tends to have her reasons.
Also keep in mind that in many cases the first snake to pip may be days potentially even a week prior the last snake to pip.
Sometimes if manually pipped too early tehy will also leave early & not get the full benefit of the yolk they would have otherwsie absorbed or they will sometimes emerge with it still attached & drag it around with them risking a rupture of their stomach in the bellybutton area or potential infection due tot hat or via the yolksac they are draging around.
Advantages being that in some cases it saves an otherwise perfect baby that may have drown.
personally I will wait until most all have pipped/hatched on thier own & then cut the last few if any remain. I will quite often take ones that have pipped on thier own & make the slices larger as well.
I have had many times in the past perfectly healthy babies get scared & pull back in only to not finding their way back out & drown which really sucks so enlarging their "escape hatch" LOL is never a bad idea.
Not a bad video anyhow though as stated not my type of music LOL Cheers Mark

I think I'm just gonna say thank you?