Ever have an egg slit at both ends?

[pamnsam94]

Although many of you might have seen this (breeders of veileds or panthers, etc.), only once have I had an egg that was slit at both ends. The baby (a quad) failed to emerge, but I was facinated that a baby can even turn around in such a tight place. I bring this up now because a clutch of 6 quad eggs began hatching two days ago. All but one had hatched. One died inside after slitting the egg. Upon closer inspection to make sure he was dead and cutting the egg open, I found out that his back end was at the partially cut open end of the egg. The head, of course, was at the opposite end. Although fully formed, he was not as big overall as the other 5 that had already hatched and had a significant amount of yolk left, unlike the others. Plus, his tongue was partially out of his mouth. I'm kind of wondering if he had lived, if he might have made cuts in the other end, just like that other egg had. He seems to have simply not been strong enough to emerge. How many of you have seen eggs slit at both ends and how common is it? With the large number of veiled and panther eggs especially (2 species I haven't really worked with), I'm guessing it may not be too uncommon. I just haven't read about it before. I must have missed those posts.

Perry

 

[pssh]

I haven't had one split at both ends, but I had a panther that was turned around like that and the tongue was also hanging out of its mouth (it was already dead, or dead very soon after being cut out. It never moved.) It looked like a normal sized baby and there was no yolk sac. I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I'm wondering how it turned around being so big.

 

[pamnsam94]

No one else?

 

[kinyonga]

I have had one slit both ends of the egg...only one.
I also had one with the butt at the opening end but lucky for him, I noticed in time. Called him Ascend.