Egg Care
Courtesy of Felice Rood, Sacramento Turtle and Tortoise
Here's how I incubate my box turtle eggs (water turtles too).
You need a clay flower pot, some green moss, a plastic bag. Take a handful of
the moss, wet it and squeeze it out good. Place it in the pot. Put the eggs on
top of the moss. Then take about a half a handful of moss, wet, squeeze, place
on top of the eggs and then put the whole thing into a plastic bag and leave it
on your kitchen counter or wherever it stays warm. An incubator is not
necessary. It works like a charm. Just check every couple of weeks to make sure
the moss has not dried out. They hatch in about 70 to 77 days this way.
My friend just wets two paper towels, puts the eggs in there, and then puts the
whole thing in a plastic bag. So far she has 64 eggs incubating! She has a 100%
hatching record. The eggs really need to be moist or else they do shrivel up or
if too wet, get moldy!
The light should be turned off at night. Good Luck!
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