The stork delivered Tortstork’s 44th instahatch egg. The egg safely arrived in Arizona. the airspace was growing rapidly, which is the perfect time to ship, that means the tortoise inside is absorbing its yolk and preparing to hatch. Here is an unboxing of the egg.
Come check out the pondcast i did with theTurtleRoom on 3/4/19. Learn how Tortstork started and where it wants to go. Click Link below.
A friend gave me this Emu egg, and I’m gonna incubate it!!! It is extremely hard to hatch one of these. The temperatures have to be steady at 96.5F, you have to rotate the egg a few times a day, and weigh it to make sure it is properly losing a certain percentage of weight. […]
Sometimes we hatch a unique tortoise, like this one. Extra or deformed scutes have no effect on the tortoise’s health. It just makes them perfectly unique. There are lots of theories on why deformed scutes occur. Some say it’s genetics, some say it’s incubation temperature being too high, others say low humidity during incubation causes […]
One of my customers sent me this unboxing video. It’s a Sardinian western Hermann’s hatchling.
The kids are giving suggestions on what they should name their newly hatched leopard tortoise.
We shipped a Russian Insta-Hatch egg out to Garden State Tortoise. It shipped on 1/24/19. It arrived on 1/25/19, and hatched the evening of 1/25/19.
The lower school of Fort Worth Country Day in Texas got a leopard Insta-Hatch egg delivered on 1/24/19. It started to hatch 1/27/19. Another successful Insta-hatch egg for the books!
12 second Times lapse, filmed for 32 hours, of an Indian Star tortoise breaking its head of the egg. True meaning of the phrase “I’ve got a turtle head poking out.”
We shipped a Russian Egg to a V.I.P which went onto to hatch into a perfect little tortoise. This egg was laid on 11/14/18, shipped on 1/23/19, showed up hatching on 1/24/19, and within 1.5 hours it fully hatched right before their eyes!!!