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Eggs, instahatch, Tortoises, tortstork

UPDATE on Tortoise born with Intestines outside body

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04
Jun

A cherryhead tortoise hatched on 5/28/19 with Gastroschisis, which is a growth defect of the plastron not closing correctly. to see inside this tortoise click this link. This little tortoise has been doing really well.  It is having  hard time moving around due to its intestines hanging out, though it seems to be healing nicely.  I […]

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Eggs, instahatch, Tortoises, tortstork

Instahatch #74; The Russian Escape

Posted on by tortstork

Instahatch #74 was a Russian egg that was laid on 3/7/19, shipped to Braintree, Vermont on 5/6/19, delivered 5/7/19, and hatched 4 days later on 5/11/19 for a total of 66 days of development. The egg started to pip at 1254pm and was completely out of its egg at 652pm the same day.  Thats 5 […]

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