3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[Melissa Rose]

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What a beautiful bird

Is this a Swedish Flower Hen or an Icelandic?

 

[mrheinz77]

Day 12 Major Events

Scales appear on the lower legs.

The embryo continues to grow and move.

The ribs begin to ossify.

 

[LarryPQ]

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Thank you!

Patch is neither. he is one of my Aloha Project birds. He's no longer a breeder, just a pet.

 

[Melissa Rose]

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I really love this Jim

When I look at the eggs it gives a mental image of the beautiful life form being created inside

 

[BHep]

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Ok I have to ask..... you are incubating these turtle eggs. You can buy & ship eggs ? Can you ship live turtles ? Is there a thread and info on this ? Curious mind here wants to know...

Regrettably you can't ship tortoise or turtle eggs! If you move them even slightly they die! You basically have 24 hours after the egg is laid to move it very carefully to the incubator for incubation. The incubation can take from three months to almost a year

If you think it's agonizing waiting 21 days try hatching a Central American Ornate Wood Turtle egg

They can go into Diapause and literally just sit there till they feel like hatching

You don't rotate them like chicken eggs. Here is a youtube video of my little Salameo hatching

and one of his Mom Senorita Lucita laying his egg

I do ship my tortoises though.

That is awesome...thanks for sharing & the info.

 

[yinepu]

we were out butchering some of the excess EE roos yesterday to send them to freezer camp.. when we were almost finished my husband informed me that I need to set MORE chicken eggs in the bator..

now why didn't he tell me this a few weeks ago???

 

[karimw]

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With my new ova scope I can practically see the ribs ossifying!

 

[AK Michelle]

As JIm posted, it's day 12. Lots going on inside the egg and we only have 9 days left

 

[9Catsz]

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Cool baby pics. I have friends who collect road killed turtle eggs and they hatch quite a lot. I live on the St. Francis River and raccoons regularly dig up and eat turtle eggs. I've saved a few eggs that they missed and 2 even hatched...surprising because raccoons throw the eggs willy nilly all around the hole. They've all been common snapping turtles.

 

[mrheinz77]

I'm hijacking the thread for a second. Sorry.

For those of you that want to hatch some more, the January egg swap is open. And, drum roll please...

The swap is for a Valentines day hatch.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=8093195#p8093195

Ok, back to the NYD hatch.