I have to scavenge metal racks and "concrete mesh" wire to put over the Wall Street Journal bedding. Takes a minute to change the paper. Roll and replace.
INCUBATORS I have an incubator problem: My pancake population is into its third generation of twin egg layers. Thirteen pancakes, nine females, with eleven eggs since last October. About a 65% hatch rate (despite my screw-ups). My incubators are a Styrofoam cooler with an old, domed “parrot egg...
Please no conjecture or generalities? I cannot find any professional, definitive answer to this question: How many
days can a tortoise egg (pancake in this instance) be "rolled" after deposit, and still have a decent chance at a hatch survival?
When does the embryo start? (I just got back from...
New member. I have two female redfoots, "Samantha and Ella" since hatchlings in 1997. 1998: Twin hatch, male female pancakes, colonized to 12 now. The redfoots are 13 pounds. They stay outside in the summer in a big pen with a timer-heated DogGloo.
The original M-F pancakes (Flapjackie and...