Delores' Eggs Hatching

[Tom]

This is her first clutch of 2011. Laid on 1-21-2011. You can easily see the one hatching on the lower left, but look real close at the one on the upper left. That's the egg that I clumsily cracked while digging them up. You can see the shell is cracked at the top in two places, but the inner membrane was still intact so I put it in the incubator anyway. Sure glad I did! See the one marked "J"? Are you ready Jacqui?

I'll do a for sale thread in a couple of weeks or so.

 

[DeanS]

Here we go again!

 

[TortieLuver]

Wow Tom that's wonderful about the cracked egg! A nice lesson for all of us tortoise breeders to put that egg in the incubator just in case. They all look good. How many do you perceive to be viable?

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Those eggs are sure slippery aren't they? I guess that's a good thing so they don't crack when being released into the nest chamber.

 

[jackrat]

Congratulations,Tom! There's nothing like seeing those babies for the first time.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Exciting! Glad to hear the cracked egg was not a loss!

 

[Tom]

All total I think there are around 30 that are viable, but luckily, I've been wrong about that before.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Outstanding!

 

[DesertGrandma]

this is really fun to watch. are there any webcams within this group for hatching eggs?

 

[marinaresident]

COOL! Congratulations, Tom!

Thanks,
Marcel

 

[HankC13]

Aww babies! Are female sulcatas protective of their nest? Or do they just lay n leave like sea turtles?

 

[murdocjunior]

Tom, congrats! so how many days was it for the 1st to hatch? And what temp did u have them at?

 

[Tom]

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.

Joy, we used to have a member with webcams, but he's moved and not set them back up since then. I don't know of any right now.

Hank, They just drop 'em cover 'em up and walk away. In fact sometimes they will come back to the same spot a month later and dig up their first nest, killing the eggs, so they can lay another clutch.

M Jr., This batch was laid on 1-21-11, but I didn't find them and put them in the incubator until 1-31-11. So the first pip was at day 99 at 88-89 degrees.

 

[ADVANceNA]

this is ssssooooo cool, please keep us updated !!

 

[dmarcus]

Very cool Tom, always interesting to see that process as it happens...

 

[Jacob]

Awsome!

 

[onarock]

I was wondering what became of those eggs that you were telling me about... now I know. Good story, you should give some more background

M Jr., This batch was laid on 1-21-11, but I didn't find them and put them in the incubator until 1-31-11. So the first pip was at day 99 at 88-89 degrees.

 

[AdamR]

Tom they look great! Keep us going with fresh pics! I incubated a chicken once with a cracked egg but never a reptile!

 

[zoogrl]

How cool! I can't imagine how excited Jacqui must be just waiting on the baby to "wake up" and get outta his/her shell! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Jacqui]

How cool! I can't imagine how excited Jacqui must be just waiting on the baby to "wake up" and get outta his/her shell! Thanks for sharing!

Actually with my luck, I am waiting for it to turn out to be a dud. Or maybe that will prove to only be true of the eggs I get here.

 

[Fernando]

I remember these! Cool!