@Kapidolo Farms
I have a young pair of Manouria emys emys:
Female-Rajkumar, 35lbs:
and Duc - 19lbs:
Raj, as I call her, started nesting in August of 2016. The first nest was "built", if you can call it that, out in the open on bare ground, and I didn't see her nesting until she had destroyed all the eggs. She scraped dirt, and scraped dirt, then deposited her eggs on the bare ground, then scraped more dirt, breaking all the eggs n the process. It was past dusk when I discovered her, so the picture is pretty dark. But you can barely see her at the base of the tree, with a small pile of debris behind her:
This is what the eggs looked like:
The next nesting took place on July 30th, 2018, and she decided the waterer (with water in it!!!) would be a pretty good place to build her nest:
This is the nest after she was finished with it (full of dirt):
I don't remember her building a nest last year, but it could just be that I didn't take any pictures. At any rate, if she did, it was a failure - actually, I DO remember having Manouria eggs in the incubator last year, so she must have built a nice nest. (old age memory)
This year she's building her nest inside the night house. I went in there this a.m. to start taking down all the electrical off the wall so I could mount it all on a back board and clean it up, and I noticed all this scraping on the rubber mat (I didn't think to take the picture prior to dumping leaves in there for her, so disregard the leaves at this point of the narative, as the floor is totally bare. Pretty interesting scraping pattern, no?:
So I went and got her a big bushel basket of leaves and dumped it for her, and when I went out a few minutes later with the scale to weigh them, she was already scraping them into a nice pile.
Hopefully this will be the year for emys emys egg success!!
I have a young pair of Manouria emys emys:
Female-Rajkumar, 35lbs:
and Duc - 19lbs:
Raj, as I call her, started nesting in August of 2016. The first nest was "built", if you can call it that, out in the open on bare ground, and I didn't see her nesting until she had destroyed all the eggs. She scraped dirt, and scraped dirt, then deposited her eggs on the bare ground, then scraped more dirt, breaking all the eggs n the process. It was past dusk when I discovered her, so the picture is pretty dark. But you can barely see her at the base of the tree, with a small pile of debris behind her:
This is what the eggs looked like:
The next nesting took place on July 30th, 2018, and she decided the waterer (with water in it!!!) would be a pretty good place to build her nest:
This is the nest after she was finished with it (full of dirt):
I don't remember her building a nest last year, but it could just be that I didn't take any pictures. At any rate, if she did, it was a failure - actually, I DO remember having Manouria eggs in the incubator last year, so she must have built a nice nest. (old age memory)
This year she's building her nest inside the night house. I went in there this a.m. to start taking down all the electrical off the wall so I could mount it all on a back board and clean it up, and I noticed all this scraping on the rubber mat (I didn't think to take the picture prior to dumping leaves in there for her, so disregard the leaves at this point of the narative, as the floor is totally bare. Pretty interesting scraping pattern, no?:
So I went and got her a big bushel basket of leaves and dumped it for her, and when I went out a few minutes later with the scale to weigh them, she was already scraping them into a nice pile.
Hopefully this will be the year for emys emys egg success!!
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