I have over 60 babies. And 1 more clutch in the incubator, first clutch started hatching on November 22. The latest clutch started hatching April 3rd so they are from 4-1/2 months and younger…
many with very nice , high white marbling, the finest, biggest are around 100 grams and I’m asking...
After keeping tortoises for 22 years. I have finally gotten my first babies in an incubator!
had some Greeks breed and hatched babies in the soil of their enclosure a few years back…
but my leopard tortoise female Thor ( thought she was a male forever ). Has bred successfully this season and...
The hay is not “the” substrate…. There is a foot of soil in their shed. They munch on the hay and hide in it on occasion. It’s cleaned out often, She has no problem laying in the soil. Many many times. And the male is not in that shed all the time. Just during breed season …. I’m aware of the...
2 seasons. Dozens of eggs from my leopard tortoise. I have witnessed the male mounting and I assumed breeding her dozens of times….
and still not one obvious fertile egg…. Frustrating
anyone else have this frustration.
I do have 20+ eggs in the incubator and have not given up this season...
My female pancake is not moving around. She typically would hide for days. Come out only when nobody was around. Now she is staying in the same spot, wherever I place her. Still there the next day. But. She isn’t losingl weight. Actually gaining few grams…. Looks healthy other than her...
My female pancake is not moving around. She typically would hide for days. Come out only when nobody was around. Now she is staying in the same spot, wherever I place her. Still there the next day. But. She isn’t losing weight. Actually gaining few grams…. Looks healthy other than her legs...
I assume the tutorial will be old hat for most of you but I videoed it for some lesser tortoise fans. Still thought I’d share.
she laid 17 eggs earlier this summer. In 2 clutches. None were fertile.
Hopefully some of these are.
fingers crossed
So my incubator does a pretty good job of keeping the correct temperature but the humidity always seems to be in the low to mid 90s
I scrape the condensation off the inside of the door but I didn’t want the vermiculite to dry out completely. Where the eggs are bedded.
question is should I put...
Thanks for the advice I was just so afraid that if anything bothered her she would stop laying and I do not want her to become egg bound I lost a Greek tortoise years ago because she couldn’t find a suitable nest in her habitat and she was egg bound and died
Last night my 10-year-old female leopard tortoise. “Thor” decided to give us a clutch of 10 eggs.
3 1/2 weeks ago she laid and I did not know and ended up digging the nest up with my tractor.
I saw her digging and checked after she left the nest site but I could not dig the ground with my...
I totally was NOT ready! Had to rush an incubator
Im hoping 2 days in the tortoise shed around 80 degrees will suffice until I get the incubator set up.
one question for any of you out there..... how can I possibly keep track of her egg deposits if she decides to bury them? This one was on...
Been working hard to create a new. Much larger indoor enclosure for my torts.
my 18 year old Sulcata now has 300 sqft of indoor heated space. And my 8 year old Leo now has 100 sqft. Dirt floors, uvb, heat lamps, heat pads, mist king mister on auto, Indoor cement soaking pond. Plus. I have...
Picked up a couple, literary a couple, of pancakes today. Hope they enjoy their new enclosure. Male has been feeding already which is good news. Female seems much more shy.
My 17 year old sulcata, Oscar, has somehow damaged the corner of his carapace. I think it’s from his burrow. He has about a 10’ deep burrow with rocks down there and I think as he was digging he had trouble turning around and smashed the corner of his shell.
It looks ok. Not to bad but I...