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Yesterday I checked on my eggs and notice one had cracked and there was some movement inside!! This from eggs I thought I had accidently rolled in retrieving them from the nest.
Then today, a second one started pipping. And a third has a mucus sac at the tip of the shell. The fourth is still dormant. LisaOKC has been walking me through this process and without her, I would have been in a major panic.
Just wanted to share my excitement!
I've posted the pics at http://photobucket.com/albums/v330/OKCrescuer/my turtle family/.
I'll keep ya'll updated!
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Cindy
Mom to Josie, Shorty & Seminole

Number one is out of it's shell and looks great!!! I've placed him/her on some damp paper towels and she just wriggled and wriggled when I picked her up. Her yolk sac is small but still intact. I have built up the paper towels around her so the sac would not be smashed but not hanging down either.
#4 is finally pipping. Looks like all four eggs are going be goodun's!!!!
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Cindy
Mom to Josie, Shorty & Seminole

Cool! Congrats! Post some pics when they are hatched! Baby turtles are sooooooooooo cute!
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0.1.0 ornate box turtle
1.0.0 eastern box turtle
0.1.0 Australian shepard
2.2.0 chickens
3.2.0 children (do I still count the married ones?)
1.0.0 husband

Congratulations!

Congrats & YES please do post photos as soon as you can.
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PHRatz

>>Yesterday I checked on my eggs and notice one had cracked and there was some movement inside!! This from eggs I thought I had accidently rolled in retrieving them from the nest.
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Reptile eggs can take a bit more punishment than people often give them credit for.

Last year I had a wild diamondback terp stress lay eggs in the water and they were not immediately removed by my coworkers.. they just LEFT them in the water for over an hour waiting for me to come in to find out what they should do!? I could have strangled those people (they knew better). The female had been snatched from the wild by someone who got bored a few days later and then dumped it on us. We had a daycamp scheduled to go visit a place where DBTs were plentiful a couple weeks later so figured we'd hold on to her and let her go then. However a few days later she stress dumped the eggs - we didn't even know she was gravid. By all rights those eggs should have drowned within the first 15 minutes. I set the eggs up in the slim hopes of getting anything and by some miracle, got half the clutch to survive and hatch - all much smaller than they should have been and one is always going to be a runty thing I think - but they are alive and doing well.

This year we had some really messed up snake eggs - maint. crew using a front end loader to move mulch from a stock pile had eggs come spilling out of the mulch. A snake had thought it was a good place to put a nest. All of the eggs had split during the big tumble and fall. However, the inner membrane held strong enough that the eggs didn't fully rupture all the way through though one was leaking a bit of fluid. Again, I had little hopes of getting anything to sruvive, but set them up anyway. After 2 months of waiting - this past weekend all 10 have hatched ! They appear to be healthy and happy.

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PHWyvern

Here is a pic taken the first day while pipping.
Later this evening I will post a pic of #1. The other three are still taking their time.
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Cindy
Mom to Josie, Shorty & Seminole

Sorry, I'm new at this posting photo thing. Here goes again....

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Cindy
Mom to Josie, Shorty & Seminole