RE: "Wild" Sulcata Babies Hatched in Southern CA!!!
I would LOVE looking for baby tortoise's! That would be like the most fun I could ever do in my life!
TylerStewart said:Congrats! Your temperatures are for sure good for natural hatching, as ours are very similar and we find baby sulcatas every September (almost only in September). I found baby leopards in an outdoor pen yesterday (found the nest in an above-ground hidebox). Last week we were finding baby hermanns and Greeks running wild in the outdoor pens. I love looking for babies, I feel like a kid at Easter all over again. I know I have some Indian star eggs in the ground that I could never find and expect/hope to find babies any day now. With some species, I get much better hatch rates from natural incubation than I do in the incubator.
Our pens aren't massive like your 7,000 square foot area, but a baby Greek or hermanns is 1" long and great at burying themselves, so it makes me nervous even walking in there during the fall. After rain is usually when we find babies.
I would LOVE looking for baby tortoise's! That would be like the most fun I could ever do in my life!