jkingler said:
...so awesome...!
This is the female of all four, just three years apart!
ALDABRA TORTOISE BREEDER
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This is the female of all four, just three years apart!
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^Super cute! That is one of my faves of your whole thread.
jkingler said:
^Super cute! That is one of my faves of your whole thread.
She was hatched on 04-15-2012 @ 59g. "CC"
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She's from the fuuuuturrrrrrrrrrre? Haha, just kidding. So she is like 9 months old, then? How big is that lil filly now?
jkingler said:She's from the fuuuuturrrrrrrrrrre? Haha, just kidding. So she is like 9 months old, then? How big is that lil filly now?
Typo, 04-15-2011. Thank you!
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ZzZzZz.
Haha. That should go in the tortoise thread: "If you think watching and photographing a sleeping tortoise is 'fun'."
Haha. That should go in the tortoise thread: "If you think watching and photographing a sleeping tortoise is 'fun'."
jkingler said:
Thats what you call snug as a bug...
dmarcus said:
...looks like someone has more eggs in the oven!
ALDABRAMAN said:
oh yay!!! how exciting! i had a false alarm this morning, found some evidence of nesting, but no eggs yet
the girls have a date with the vet next week to sneak a peek with the ultrasound machine, possibly radiographs! everybody keep fingers crossed!
zesty_17 said:ALDABRAMAN said:
oh yay!!! how exciting! i had a false alarm this morning, found some evidence of nesting, but no eggs yet
That would be great! Are you sure she did not lay them during the night? We have had them come out at 0100 and start to dig.
ALDABRAMAN said:zesty_17 said:ALDABRAMAN said:
oh yay!!! how exciting! i had a false alarm this morning, found some evidence of nesting, but no eggs yet
That would be great! Are you sure she did not lay them during the night? We have had them come out at 0100 and start to dig.
I am not 100% that she didn't, but a coworker found the same nest site around 2pm yesterday & did not tell me. So when i came in this morning and found it, i poked around it a little, called him over & covered it back up. About how deep do they usually lay? This one was about 6" deep in a pretty large circumference probably 10" around, and was left uncovered. I am off the next couple of days so won't be able to observe them. I did turn the mound though, and churn up a couple of other spots though to stimulate them. suggestions?
zesty_17 said:ALDABRAMAN said:zesty_17 said:ALDABRAMAN said:
oh yay!!! how exciting! i had a false alarm this morning, found some evidence of nesting, but no eggs yet
That would be great! Are you sure she did not lay them during the night? We have had them come out at 0100 and start to dig.
I am not 100% that she didn't, but a coworker found the same nest site around 2pm yesterday & did not tell me. So when i came in this morning and found it, i poked around it a little, called him over & covered it back up. About how deep do they usually lay? This one was about 6" deep in a pretty large circumference probably 10" around, and was left uncovered. I am off the next couple of days so won't be able to observe them. I did turn the mound though, and churn up a couple of other spots though to stimulate them. suggestions?
If anything to stimulate them, maybe run the sprinklers in the evening and get the ground wet before dusk. Rainy weather seems to get ours sometimes to lay. They usually dig a whole between 14" and 18" deep, depending on the size of the females hind leg reach. The circumference is about 10" or so around and the bottom of the hole tends to mushroom out towards the front about 2" or so. When the female has delivered all the eggs she gently pushes them forward into the mushroomed part. I hope you get a clutch, and please call with any questions, you have my card.This female layed eighteen eggs in this nest, typical size of a nest hole!
This is what we do when we miss a clutch, what a PIA! Notice the depth and how we dug from the inside outward in order to not damage any eggs when they were located!
This is a picture of the same tortoise after she layed eggs in December, notice the massive area disturbed. It would be very hard to pinpoint the nest location after she does all that disturbing of the area around the nest. The day before she dug and layed eggs that area was untouched.
