Please excuse me if I waffle!!!!
I work in a veterinary practice and some time ago a client "popped" in with 2 tortoise eggs. She had been to Australia to visit her daughter for 3 weeks. On her return her female tortoise had laid 2 eggs buried under straw in the enclosure. she has a male and female that are about 30-35 yrs old. In her hast as they have never produced before she brought the eggs to us not knowing what to do. She brought them in exactly as she found them, in hay and did not rotate them at all and had marked the top. Well, I just thought I have nothing to loose I will try and see what happens!!!!
I brought them home and was going to make a makeshift incubator discussed with all the nurses from the Practice when My Daughters Boyfriend came around and said " I've got a proper chicken egg incubator at home I will go get it". We took out the rotation part and I have placed the eggs exactly as they were found in the straw in a sandwich box in the incubator. It has sections for adding water for humidity but only has a probe for temp that I am keeping between 30.5 and 32c I can only guess humidity:/ I open the lid once daily although it has 3 holes in it, and top up the water when the temp creeps up. These two eggs are 35 days old this Fri, I also have 1 more she brought in a week later! She doesn't know the breed but By looking at pics with her I think they are Russian tort eggs. 1 has an obvious air space at the top and jagged yoke at the bottom, 1shows no airspace but straight yoke at the bottom and the egg that is a week later(28 days) is showing nothing! Havent seen the ring of life in any, but learning as I go along. Really hope this works any advice would be good, but hey they stood no chance with the owner
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I work in a veterinary practice and some time ago a client "popped" in with 2 tortoise eggs. She had been to Australia to visit her daughter for 3 weeks. On her return her female tortoise had laid 2 eggs buried under straw in the enclosure. she has a male and female that are about 30-35 yrs old. In her hast as they have never produced before she brought the eggs to us not knowing what to do. She brought them in exactly as she found them, in hay and did not rotate them at all and had marked the top. Well, I just thought I have nothing to loose I will try and see what happens!!!!
I brought them home and was going to make a makeshift incubator discussed with all the nurses from the Practice when My Daughters Boyfriend came around and said " I've got a proper chicken egg incubator at home I will go get it". We took out the rotation part and I have placed the eggs exactly as they were found in the straw in a sandwich box in the incubator. It has sections for adding water for humidity but only has a probe for temp that I am keeping between 30.5 and 32c I can only guess humidity:/ I open the lid once daily although it has 3 holes in it, and top up the water when the temp creeps up. These two eggs are 35 days old this Fri, I also have 1 more she brought in a week later! She doesn't know the breed but By looking at pics with her I think they are Russian tort eggs. 1 has an obvious air space at the top and jagged yoke at the bottom, 1shows no airspace but straight yoke at the bottom and the egg that is a week later(28 days) is showing nothing! Havent seen the ring of life in any, but learning as I go along. Really hope this works any advice would be good, but hey they stood no chance with the owner
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. I can't give any advice with your eggs. Just wanted to welcome you and wish you good luck. Will be really cool if they hatch. Keep us updated
