So I have been kind of just lurking on the forums not posting much, but I had to come in and post this update! Eggs have hatched. Here are a few pics of them hatching. Will put updated pics up tomorrow when I can take more. I ended up with 5 out of 5 of the Gulf Coast eggs hatching, but only...
This wait is killing me! I posted about a month ago about my 10 box turtle eggs in the incubator. The 5 gulf coast are at 33 days in the incubator and the now 4 three-toed eggs are a day behind at 32 days. One of them turned brown and caved in so I removed it before it burst or got too yucky...
So last night I caught my gulf coast girl nesting. She gave me 5 eggs! Then tonight I just caught my 3 toed girl nesting. She has only been with me a couple of weeks, and is housed alone so unsure if hers will be fertile or not. I don't really know much about her previous life so do not know...
So I dug up the eggs from my Gulf Coast that was nesting last night! She laid 5. I decided to go out tonight and give a little extra food to help out big momma that laid those and go check my other pen that right now only has the lone female 3 toed that I just got last week and wouldn't you...
So I rarely go out into my backyard this late at night to check on the turtles...but the darn dogs were barking to go out at this hour which they never do so I went out with them and decided to go take a look at the boxies and found this! Just snapped one quick pic and left her to herself! If...
So I am still working on my outdoor enclosure for my gulf coast box turtles. All the important stuff is finished (containment, hides, some plants, etc.) and now I am just working on making it look better. I started off with a group of 3 adult males, 2 adult females and one juvenile female...
Hi all. I am in the process of building an outdoor enclosure. I am going to be acquiring several gulf coast box turtles tomorrow so was hoping to spruce up the enclosure a bit before going to pick them up. Anyone know of any native plants to the southern Louisiana area that I could add to my...
Hello all! My name is Kory and I stumbled upon this forum while I was doing some research on tortoises and turtles. I live in the New Orleans area and am very interested in getting back into reptiles! Way back when I was younger I had an outdoor pen with box turtles and loved it so decided...