can you hatch reptiles in a chicken bator?

[aubreynoramarie]

liiike turtles?

 

[Attack Chicken]

Funny story: Found a nest of turtle eggs that had been dug up by a raccoon. Found two that were untouched and figured eh they are probably to old anyways. Being me that likes to collect stuff i put them in a plastic worm container and put them in my dads truck and forgot about them.

Dad pulls out the worm box and opens and shows the eggs to a friend and what do ya know? Two baby snappin turtles!

So I think you could

plastic worm container worked for me

AC

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

As long as you can maintain the proper temps and humidity required you can hatch turtles.

What you would do afterwords I don't have a clue.

I'm a chicken person but I use reptile stuff in my homemade incubator it works just fine.

 

[jm93030]

There must be lot of information on Internet just go ahead and google about it

make sure is legal and you dont get in any issues

 

[Archae]

I done it for years. Many reptile sites actually sell the chicken type incubators. You usually need to partially bury the eggs in a sterile media like vermiculite that will hold moisture. Also reptiles usually incubate at a lower temp then chickens. Do your homework. I have been breeding chameleons and snakes since I was 14 but I have never breed turtles but there are tons of places to get more info. What kind of turtle?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

i honestly have no clue. One of my friends just asked if he could borrow my bator cuz his turtles were makin' babies. I said when im done with it sure, but im goona check with my peeps to see if its even possible or if its just going to ruin my bator.

 

[ginormous chicken]

Ohhhhh Ohhh... I can answer this one

! ( Do notice my brood/flock below) The answer is yes and no.

The simple answer is yes you can. However, reptile eggs- depending on what type turtle, lizards, snakes

EEkkk !! J/k have really different specs. than chicken. For one thing they take longer to incubate. A lot of snakes take up to 60 days! Before I got into chickens, the original incubator ( it was a Little Giant from TSC) was bought for snake eggs. I sold it because we lost a 300 dollar egg. So it really isn't that easy. The heat conductor was too close to the eggs. (I also wasn't about to incubate chicken eggs in what I think is a not very steady inc.) Anyway, most reptiles have soft shells and although they do NOT require a turner, their humidity monitoring can be tricky. Also, you can't just lay them on the wire it take more work than that.

All in all I think if one is serious about inc. reptile eggs they are better of getting a reptile incubator. (They make them.) We (my DH and I) have a very sweet custom reptile incubator that we

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For turtles.. well what type.. are we talking sliders, or succatas? Desert or jungle? Your looking at a 60 to 90 day incubation. Their sex are temp. dependent you are looking at
84-87 F for that time. (This is if we are talking about sliders) PM me for more details.

 

[HHandbasket]

I have a reptile bator that I'm hatching out chicken eggs in, so I don't see why one couldn't hatch out reptiles from a chicken bator if they had the temps/humidity levels correct.

 

[perolane]

Turtles & tortoises..yes. Eggs are placed in vermiculite, DO NOT TURN, & must be misted. Temperature will determine sex. You can google the info.

Make sure you give the incubator a VERY thorough cleaning/disenfecting after hatching reptiles in it!

 

[Chickenbrainiac]

Yes, you can.

You incubate them at room temp, no need for a incubator, as long as you use the right incubation substrate, like hatchrite, or other substances (aquatic potting soil works).

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