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To say the least I'm bouncing off the walls this morning.

Almost 5 months to the day after being layed. Our first baby Yellowfoot came out to say hello world. My older daughter named it Lucky.

Incubated at 81.7* with 97% humidity. No substrate method was used with great success. I can not find other records of this method being used before. After a lenghthy talk with a Reptile Zoo owner friend of mine. We started to get worried the shells would be to hard for the babies to break out. Thankfully not the case.
PS: these are my wife Josee torts and she gets all the koodo's for this day.

Mardy McManus

Egg tooth is easy to see.

In this picture you can see the 3 pinkish unfertilised eggs.

Neat! Have not seen that method for tortoises before but it obviously works.

A herper named Steve Hammack did a kind of study on snake eggs using this method. This is why I suggest a dry substrate and hight relative humidity.

I've never used it myself and it was really neat seeing the photos you posted... Fantastic.

Congrats on a bunch of points.

Ed

>>To say the least I'm bouncing off the walls this morning.
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>>Almost 5 months to the day after being layed. Our first baby Yellowfoot came out to say hello world. My older daughter named it Lucky.
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>>Incubated at 81.7* with 97% humidity. No substrate method was used with great success. I can not find other records of this method being used before. After a lenghthy talk with a Reptile Zoo owner friend of mine. We started to get worried the shells would be to hard for the babies to break out. Thankfully not the case.
>>PS: these are my wife Josee torts and she gets all the koodo's for this day.
>>
>>Mardy McManus
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>>Egg tooth is easy to see.
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>>In this picture you can see the 3 pinkish unfertilised eggs.
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Ed @ Tortoise Keepers
Trying to keep the fun in Chelonian care

Mardy

Those things are kewl! Please post more photos of them as they hatch.

>>To say the least I'm bouncing off the walls this morning.
>>
>>Almost 5 months to the day after being layed. Our first baby Yellowfoot came out to say hello world. My older daughter named it Lucky.
>>
>>Incubated at 81.7* with 97% humidity. No substrate method was used with great success. I can not find other records of this method being used before. After a lenghthy talk with a Reptile Zoo owner friend of mine. We started to get worried the shells would be to hard for the babies to break out. Thankfully not the case.
>>PS: these are my wife Josee torts and she gets all the koodo's for this day.
>>
I was wondering what your thoughts are on this baby tort, he is supposed to be a yellowfoot, but I am doubting it. Please Help
>>Mardy McManus
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>>Egg tooth is easy to see.
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>>In this picture you can see the 3 pinkish unfertilised eggs.
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