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Making an Egyptian hatchling enclosure; Less is routine.

I get asked a lot about how i raise my baby Egyptian hatchlings.  I always respond with “less is routine.”  Egyptian hatchlings get easily stressed out, because they don’t like change.  Babies wake up, warm up, eat, sleep and start that routine all over through out the day.  My enclosures are simple because that has […]

Egyptians are starting to hatch

Some of our baby Egyptian eggs are starting to hatch.  I was hoping these would be instahatch eggs and hatch in some lucky person’s incubator.  This Egyptian egg was laid on 5/9/19.  It piped on 7/31/19 and slowly is emerging at a tortoise’s pace. This little tortoise weighs around 4 grams.

100 is in the Egyptian bag!

The 100th instahatch egg was an Egyptian tortoise egg!!!  It was shipped to Gainsville, Florida, 1,000 miles away.  It was laid on 4/20/19, shipped on 6/27/19, delivered on 6/28/19, and started to hatch later that afternoon.  It is doing fantastic and is super active.