critique my eggs, please (Now incl. pipping and popping)

[ZEROPILOT]

Awww, sweet baby Joe! What a round little cutie! Did you name him after Joesmum's little fellow?

Yes.
After Linda's Joe that sadly passed the same day mine started pipping.
Here he is. Still a bad photo though.
He's 31.6 mm front to back. Tiny, but perfectly formed.

 

[GingerLove]

Yes.
After Linda's Joe that sadly passed the same day mine started pipping.
Here he is. Still a bad photo though.
He's 31.6 mm front to back. Tiny, but perfectly formed.

That is really sweet! The Joe legacy will live on forever.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

The second active egg is pretty welled pipped out and should be producing a tortoise this afternoon.
No name for this one, because it will be the first one that I will try to send off to a new owner that knows his or her stuff.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Thanks for all of the help.
Egg two has now hatched. Also, from my home made incubator.
All the others are in the Hoverbator.
It seems that the curse has been lifted.
Now there's a new curse....Too many tortoises!

 

[Anyfoot]

Thanks for all of the help.
Egg two has now hatched. Also, from my home made incubator.
All the others are in the Hoverbator.
It seems that the curse has been lifted.
Now there's a new curse....Too many tortoises!

Very nice, looks like 2 different colors there too.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

First drinks

 

[Anyfoot]

First drinks

Yours don't have those prominent scute border lines like mine do. How long have yours taken to incubate, more to point how long could they have been in the ground.
Did yours stop in the egg until the eggsack had fully absorbed. I've noticed this before with those that come out the ground.
Can you see what I mean?

 

[cmacusa3]

First drinks

They look great Ed!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

There are four now.
The last one was in a hurry and hatched with some yolk left, witch leaked near the shell and Joe ate it. (The yolk)
The other 3 cracked about half the shell away exposing the heads then just stayed inside and absorbed the yolk before climbing out.
They're all dark. Nice red on the legs. Perfectly formed and very, very small.
The borders are minimal and the lighter colored blocks are different in size and shape, but pretty much the same.
Yours are lighter.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

The first baby is mostly 100% healed and will be moving over to the closed chamber this week.
3 of 4 are now eating food

 

[Anyfoot]

Any more pipping yet Ed?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

As of tonight. Sunday.
All is calm.
But earlier I saw my oldest female digging under a bush.......

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I don't know why I feel so obligated to keep and hatch every single egg.
The honeymoon phase should wear off soon.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

.....Oh. And nobody mentioned the weird noise that baby reds make when you pick them up.
Bizarre

 

[GingerLove]

.....Oh. And nobody mentioned the weird noise that baby reds make when you pick them up.
Bizarre

Noise?! Can you record it?

 

[Anyfoot]

.....Oh. And nobody mentioned the weird noise that baby reds make when you pick them up.
Bizarre

Ha, the hiss. Yep they don't like being picked up. Have you seen one do the perthetic attempt to ram yet?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Ha, the hiss. Yep they don't like being picked up. Have you seen one do the perthetic attempt to ram yet?

Yes.
kind of stand up on stiff legs and fall forward.
Ramming takes practice.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Noise?! Can you record it?

It's very quiet. But you would think that they are dying.

 

[Eric Phillips]

Congrats Ed, they look healthy and great! Wonderful job!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Congrats Ed, they look healthy and great! Wonderful job!

Thanks. They did most of the work.