YF Eggs

[Yvonne G]

My YF tortoises never dig a nest, which tells me I don't have the correct soil/nest building materials available to them. This a.m. I looked around the doorway out into their "patio" and I saw this:



I haven't been very lucky hatching YF eggs - only hatched 4 so far in many years of keeping YFs. There are 8 eggs, and I've got my fingers crossed to be a little luckier this year!

 

[TaylorTortoise]

My YF tortoises never dig a nest, which tells me I don't have the correct soil/nest building materials available to them. This a.m. I looked around the doorway out into their "patio" and I saw this:

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I haven't been very lucky hatching YF eggs - only hatched 4 so far in many years of keeping YFs. There are 8 eggs, and I've got my fingers crossed to be a little luckier this year!

Who would have thought soil mattered for nesting. Which soil is good for nesting?

 

[Yvonne G]

I'm not sure but I think it needs to include leaf litter

 

[wellington]

Who would have thought soil mattered for nesting. Which soil is good for nesting?

Each species would have there preference.

 

[Sarah2020]

Good luck hope you have success. Nature is amazing.

 

[Cathie G]

I'm not sure but I think it needs to include leaf litter

Are you going to move them? Or just put some stuff there for her to cover them up? 🤗🐢

 

[Yvonne G]

They're in the incubator.

 

[tortlvr]

They're in the incubator.

Talk about clean and easy egg collecting. Wouldn't the viability be the same buried or not?

 

[Yvonne G]

Yes.

 

[pacific chelonians]

Trying out some new coconut mulch from Costco basically a bulk version of zoomed eco earth and its cheep my ground drys out in the areas with out grass so hopefully they will have an easier time a few females have been test nesting in it we will see I guess.