Dorrie Siu said:You're not being a bad guy!! If in the wild, she would not survive and would be prey....
Don't feel bad, Yvonne. There's only so much that human intervention can do. The point is, you tried.
Yvonne G said:So I finally got around to taking the new baby out of the incubator and I set her up in this really, really, REALLY big habitat:
...and I thought I'd better wash off her head because it looked like there was vermiculite stuck on her eyes. But, no, I'm afraid I'm going to have to euthanize this baby. There are no eyes where eyes belong, but there is a big raw-looking spot on the top of the head with maybe eyes under the skin on top of the head...and the top beak is deformed too:
and the folded plastron is not opening up either:
Poor little baby. This might have happened when the temperature inside the incubator spiked about half-way through the incubation period.
HerpMS said:I would be more than happy to take her and try to teach her to eat! I've rescued animals my whole life. I would hate to see the little one be put down without seeing what it's capable of learning. I'm home full time so I have more than enough time to devote to her. I live in Atlanta though.