How long do you leave new born in incubator?

mike taylor

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Cool thanks again Tom. That's what I've been doing but I just line the bottom of the incubator with paper towels . I place the greens in the middle . They eat like little monsters . So I guess I'm on the right track.
 

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Here are the little ones soaking again . The second picture is the incubator with paper towels . I'm starting these guys with grass clippings , grape leaves ,elephant grass , hibiscus leaves, hibiscus flowers ,and homegrown radicchio. They are eating little monsters .

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In the last two years since this thread, I've switched from using paper towels in my brooder boxes to alternating between large grape leaves or large broadleaf plantain leaves on the bottom.

I like this much better and don't have to worry about them nibbling on the paper towels.
 

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I take mine out as soon as the yolk has completely absorbed.
 

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Cool thanks for the up date . Hopefully I will not have anymore babies out of my sulcatas. But I do want a few from my red footed tortoises.
 
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