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Ok, here are the pictures! Mindy still hasn't layed a third egg, so we're wondering if that might be it. She's still holding her tail in a funny way, and wagging it like a dog when she walks, so we're not sure what's up with that. Here's the first egg when we found it this morning.
We moved Mindy and Mork to another bin so they wouldn't disturb the egg. Tortoise eggs must be very still and cannot be turned. You can see the second egg in the hay at the bottom of this picture.
We (carefully) marked the top of the eggs with a pencil, and removed them. Then we put them in a temporary incubator that we rigged up. Since we didn't count on having eggs so soon, we didn't have an incubator yet.
The larger egg is the first one. The metal prong and cord you see is a thermometer so we can keep the eggs at the right temperature.
Here's Mindy pacing in their pen.
Here's our makeshift incubator. The white bowl holds water and the container on the right has the tortoise eggs in it. Well, that's it. if she has any more, I'll post another picture! |
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