I am so mad at myself. I had been suspecting my female would lay a second clutch and today I felt her and she felt lighter and her tail looked a bit stretched. I checked around the enclosure and found the entrance of her burrow a little dug up with loose dirt. However, I was in a rush and I was digging up that area and all of the sudden, I completely crushed the lone egg! I am so mad at myself and will have a hard time getting over this, I only have one egg from her in the incubator and have wanted eggs for years.
I can't believe I am stupid enough to be so uncareful. I am NEVER going to rush digging for an egg again and I am SO mad I possibly didn't allow a little russian tortoise to be born. ☹️☹️
And what makes it worse is that my female is a smaller female, having laid two clutches so far with one egg each. I don't really expect a third clutch based on her size and this being her first year having eggs, so I assume the next time I'll get eggs is next year, and that is so so far away..
Let this be a lesson for anyone else! NEVER RUSH TO UNBURY AN EGG! Especially if your tortoise doesn't lay very many, because the amount of regret I feel is huge! If only I could just go back in time and lightly uncover it... It would be in the incubator with the other one right now... ☹️
I can't believe I am stupid enough to be so uncareful. I am NEVER going to rush digging for an egg again and I am SO mad I possibly didn't allow a little russian tortoise to be born. ☹️☹️
And what makes it worse is that my female is a smaller female, having laid two clutches so far with one egg each. I don't really expect a third clutch based on her size and this being her first year having eggs, so I assume the next time I'll get eggs is next year, and that is so so far away..
Let this be a lesson for anyone else! NEVER RUSH TO UNBURY AN EGG! Especially if your tortoise doesn't lay very many, because the amount of regret I feel is huge! If only I could just go back in time and lightly uncover it... It would be in the incubator with the other one right now... ☹️