{"id":1498,"date":"2019-05-23T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tortstork.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2019-05-23T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:05:35","slug":"instahatch-eggs-71-nature-controls-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tortstork.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Instahatch eggs #71 &#038; #72; Nature controls it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#71 and #72 were both Cherryhead tortoise eggs, from same clutch, same ship date, same delivery date. \u00a0They both traveled around 600 miles. \u00a0#71 was shipped to Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. #72 was shipped to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. #71 piped 7 days after being delivered\u00a0(total days incubated 101). \u00a0#72 piped 16 days after being delivered (total days incubated 110).\u00a0 One could hypothesize that shipping the eggs caused a little shock in the #72 egg and it took longer to hatch, but I held back one egg from that same clutch. \u00a0The one I held back started to pip a day before #72 (total days incubated 109).\u00a0 It is a reminder that even hundreds of miles away doesn&#8217;t stop Mother Nature. \u00a0If I kept all three here, I&#8217;m pretty confident that it would not have altered their hatch dates, an assumption, we may never know the answer to. \u00a0Though having 2 eggs hatch within 24 hours of each other and 600 miles away, still blows my mind. \u00a0Tortstork is proving weekly that tortoise eggs are a lot more resilient than we originally theorized. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized952019051295180913958511.jpg?resize=1020%2C1360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized952019051295180913958511.jpg?w=1452&amp;ssl=1 1452w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized952019051295180913958511.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized952019051295180913958511.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized952019051295180913958511.jpg?resize=510%2C680&amp;ssl=1 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.jpg?resize=1020%2C765&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.jpg?w=1632&amp;ssl=1 1632w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tortstork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.jpg?resize=510%2C383&amp;ssl=1 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#71 and #72 were both Cherryhead tortoise eggs, from same clutch, same ship date, same delivery date. \u00a0They both traveled around 600 miles. \u00a0#71 was shipped to Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. #72 was shipped to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. #71 piped 7 days after being delivered\u00a0(total days incubated 101). \u00a0#72 piped 16 days after being delivered [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,67,23,66],"tags":[86,45,84,87,88,63,77,85],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eggs","category-instahatch","category-tortoises","category-tortstork","tag-assumption","tag-baby-tortoise","tag-baby-turtle","tag-cherryhead","tag-cherryhead-tortoise","tag-hatching","tag-hatchling","tag-theory"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instahatch eggs #71 &amp; #72; Nature controls it! 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