I was digging in my turtle pen so that I could partially bury a large overturned flower pot so that the kiddos had more shady areas.

Well a couple of shovel scoops in and I see a broken egg in the hole. I go looking thru the last couple of scoops and sure enough I had dug up a nest of 4 eggs. One completely chopped in half and one broken. The other two are intact and look good.

I hurriedly put some soil into a butter dish and placed the eggs in there then misted.

The broken open egg had a nice bright yellow yolk (broken of course) but I could see no viable baby. Either infertile or just to freshly laid. The eggs had no foul odor to them.

Did I mention that I feel horrible here?

My question is what are the chances for the two remaining eggs? I have no idea what position they were in as they got tossed with soil. For all I know, the yolk can be broken within the egg.

I don't know what to do.

I feel horrible.

Someone help me out here.

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