Tortoise Laying Eggs

California Desert Tortoises (The Avery Family)
We have 10 tortoise eggs! Digger laid 6 (healthy) eggs yesterday. Fred (yes, she is a female) laid 4 this afternoon. I took a video of Digger laying her eggs yesterday! Its a total of 8 min, if you want to cheat, the eggs are laid at the following times - 0:10; 2:57; 4:10; 6:58; and 7:50)

The mama tortoises were my dad's when he was a kid. Its so special to still have this legacy!

California Desert Tortoises are an endangered species!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Tortoise
• Turtle
• Eggs
• Endangered
• Species
• California
• Desert

[Rynell24]

Two eggs hatched on October 9th. The others never hatched. The two baby tortoises are getting so big!

[suiteangel45]

How hot is it there? Oh and can a tortoise tolerate 45 degrees celsius?

How big do they grow?What do they eat? What temprature does the babies tolerate?

What are the breeds of the tortoises which tolerates the 45 degrees celsius?

[Rynell24]

@suiteangel45

San Diego is about 80f degrees right now.They grow to beabout 14 inches long. They eat vegetables and plants. The eggs are currently incubated at 95f degrees, should hatch any day now.

Tortoises can withstand high heat if they have shade and lots of water.

[lessonater]

Hello,

Nice tortoise!

I'm just curious, did you leave the eggs in the ground and wait for them to hatch or did you dig them up and put them in an incubator?

My tortoise just laid eggs and I would prefer to keep the in the ground. Also, the temperature is very warm so I think they'll be fine.

[Rynell24]

@lessonater

We generally keep the eggs in the incubator at 85 degrees. We had one clutch hatch from the ground, but they were all sickly and did not survive. If you decide to keep them in the ground, you need to watch for rodents, skunks, and water.

Good luck! Ours should hatch any day.

[LiberianArmy]

is it weird that i'm yelling push into the screen

[TennesseeBaby77]

the last egg is going to b a hugeeeeee turtle

[lol55960]

the 2nd turtle took like 2 minutes to come out poor turtle

[SHINeefan17]

Why did a yolk come out?

[100BarbieDoll100]

There was 1 that was yellow, another that was transperant.... why?? did they die? were they not ready to come out?? wat happened? :O

[100BarbieDoll100]

Awww! Cute tortoise!! I have a turtle, i really wanted baby turtles, but there were no more in the shop. I mean, to make them... Besides that was a cute video! The second egg was a bit hard, no? :D

[RecipeForDeath]

That is so cool!

[FalconAlpaca]

@kansai07 natural selection at it's worst :( one didn't make it.

[Kenny8985]

at 6:58 was that an egglol look like a stick

[jcandsjbff]

@Rynell24 Why was one yellow? when it came out it was yellow?