Reptile breeders, ever found mutants in a clutch?

[bugmankeith]

I know with reptiles there are so many possible mutations you can get, has anyone ever had a natural mutant in a clutch, meaning not bred for a mutation?

 

[pitbulllady]

I've had a couple of anery Corns pop up in a clutch from wild-caught gravid normal females, but since I didn't see the father, I cannnot actually say that they weren't "bred for" that mutation, just that they weren't bred by ME. I have had SEVERAL hypo Banded Water Snakes born to normal wild-caught gravid females, but again, not having seen the father(and hypomelanism is a co-dominant trait), plus knowing that the females were collected in areas known to have produced hypos, I cannot really say that they weren't bred for that trait, just again, not by me. A Cajun buddy of mine down in Louisiana had a large clutch of TX Rats hatch out in one of his greenhouses that was about 50/50 leucistics-to-normals in ratio. His grandson caught most of them and kept one of the leucies and let the rest go so they could do their job of keeping rodents out of the greenhouses.

pitbulllady

 

[bugmankeith]

That's pretty cool to find so many in the wild.

I was reading about mutants in the hobby color morphs popping up to normal parents is one case, two headed individuals, Siamese eggs, eyeless individuals, scaleless individuals, fatal deformities, even a case of ball python with embryonic fluid being green snake hatched but had tiny eyes and digestive deformities which led to death few weeks later.

 

[lancej]

I've had snakes hatch out with kinks. One snake that had its entire body fused together except for the head, part of its neck, and the tail. It pipped the egg, but after 3 days after its brothers and sisters had left their eggs, I cut the egg the rest of the way open. It was very sad to see it. Even though it was still alive, I humanely euthanized it in the freezer. I have also had a few snakes that went full term, but never hatched that had various deformities of the head - the strangest was one with no upper jaw.

 

[Louise E. Rothstein]

Toxic chemicals are far more pervasive than most people realize.
Among many other things they can permeate eggs before they are laid and induce defective hatchlings:
your story sounds like a case of that kind.

 

[pperrotta03]

I once found a ribbon snake in upstate new york that had red stripes instead of yellow. I let him go, not sure if its rare for them to have that kind of mutation.

tappy tappa taparoo

 

[jake9134]

had a dart frog tadpole remain aquatic. he had all his legs and kept its tail for 6 months before dying, normally they absorb their tail a week after the front legs pop out.

 

[Najakeeper]

Probably the most profitable example is this guy hatching an albino black headed python in Holland from a regular clutch. Point mutation in one egg, and hets go for 25k a pair now.