Greek Tortoise Hatching

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egyptiandan

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One of my Middle Eastern Greek tortoise, T. g. antakyensis, eggs has hatched. Here's the whole process.
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omg!!! how awesome! that must be such an amazing feeling to watch one hatch right before your eyes!
 

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Awesome pics Danny! Is that the only one to hatch so far? So amazing.

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Thanks Demjor19, Tracy and Dee :)

Yes it's the first egg, of a clutch of 2, to hatch. The other one should start very soon.

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OOOOH!
Our Calvin is an Antakyensis (per you and HermanniChris)...I can't wait to show our boys what he looked like 7 years ago...we never got to see him so tiny and fragile...bets of luck!!!

Simply beautiful...
 

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Wonderful pic Danny and what a beautiful little Tort. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
 
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Great pics as always Danny :)
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wow... it must be very rewarding to breed these little buggers.
great pics! thanks for posting.
 

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Many congrats on this one and all of your hatchlings for the year, youve had a great year from what I can tell. :)
 

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Thanks Cam, Robyn, Kelly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Testudogeek and Anja :D

I've had over 60 hatchlings with 10 fertile eggs in the incubator still and another tortoise pacing. I haven't even gotten any Egyptian eggs yet :p I've had a very good year this past year.

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egyptiandan said:
I've had over 60 hatchlings with 10 fertile eggs in the incubator still and another tortoise pacing.

60?! That's a lot of torts! Do you manage to sell all of them?

PS - I'm curious: How many hatch on a "normal year"?
 

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I'm keeping a few, but no I haven't sold all I want to sell yet.
It depends on how many eggs I get. This year most of my females are mature now, so started to lay. I think my most before was about 35.
I've probably had about 90 eggs this year, all of them weren't fertile though.

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