Chris Anderson
Dr. House of Chameleons
Hi Everyone,
If you have enough babies born, sooner or later you'll encounter babies born with birth defects. I've seen it on the forums a few times and last night experienced it for a second time myself. From what I've seen, it appears that the tail and eyes are two of the most prone areas for birth defects to show up, or at least for babies to end up hatching live with these defects (i.e. other defects may be lethal before hatching).
There was a previous thread I was able to locate with photos of a neonate Furcifer pardalis with a tail deformity: https://www.chameleonforums.com/neo-deformed-tail-breeders-please-51831/
I also personally had a baby Furcifer cf. laterals var. "major" hatch without a tail at all and his hemipenes everted:
I've also seen photos in the past of babies born without eyes and last night, I had a baby Kinyongia tavetana born this way as well:
Unfortunately this baby will have to be put down because there is no way for it to eat on its own and it is far to small to be force-fed in sufficient quantities to grow appropriately. The neonate Furcifer cf. laterals var. "major" I had born also did not make it.
I wondered if anyone else had any photographs of birth defects they have experienced?
Chris
If you have enough babies born, sooner or later you'll encounter babies born with birth defects. I've seen it on the forums a few times and last night experienced it for a second time myself. From what I've seen, it appears that the tail and eyes are two of the most prone areas for birth defects to show up, or at least for babies to end up hatching live with these defects (i.e. other defects may be lethal before hatching).
There was a previous thread I was able to locate with photos of a neonate Furcifer pardalis with a tail deformity: https://www.chameleonforums.com/neo-deformed-tail-breeders-please-51831/
I also personally had a baby Furcifer cf. laterals var. "major" hatch without a tail at all and his hemipenes everted:
I've also seen photos in the past of babies born without eyes and last night, I had a baby Kinyongia tavetana born this way as well:
Unfortunately this baby will have to be put down because there is no way for it to eat on its own and it is far to small to be force-fed in sufficient quantities to grow appropriately. The neonate Furcifer cf. laterals var. "major" I had born also did not make it.
I wondered if anyone else had any photographs of birth defects they have experienced?
Chris