Sooo cute! Congrats!! =]
egyptiandan said:To get a hatchling Waiting for a female, than waiting for her to become adult, than figuring out how to incubate the eggs. So here she is after 224 days of waiting and 21 years in the making My very first Chaco tortoise hatchling wants to say hi to the world.
Danny
egyptiandan said:Thanks Everyone
Most of that 21 years was trying to find a female. I had a female 12 years ago. But before she could settle in and lay, something took her head off while she was outside. I only got the female that laid the eggs 4 years ago. I had to raise her to adult size and 2 years ago was the first year she laid. I hadn't figured out what needed to be done to get the eggs to break diapause that year, so they all went bad. This past year it seems that I've gotten it right with one egg and trying hard with 3 more. These last 3 were laid in October of last year and I've had to cool them down twice to try to break the diapause. Hopefully they will start developing now. If they do they won't hatch till September, making it almost a year after they were laid.
Danny