Comments on: Box Turtle Eggs http://badattitudefarmandforge.com/2009/08/06/box-turtle-eggs/ We farm. You eat. Where does your food come from? Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Patricia Johnson http://badattitudefarmandforge.com/2009/08/06/box-turtle-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Patricia Johnson Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:56:10 +0000 http://badattitudefarmandforge.com/?p=90#comment-35 Congratulations on your eggs. Let's hope they hatch. You may want to research turtle egg incubation, as it is my understanding that you do now want to warm them too much. Also, be careful to not rotate the egg at all when moving it. One method to be sure, is to pencil an X on the top of the egg. One thing you may want to look into is getting your State Wildlife Rehabilitator license. This will permit you to care for sick animals, should you encounter any in the future. Turtles have an amazing ability to recover illness and physical injury. Your female is a great example of this. People may find a turtle with a severe shell fracture, and think that the animal needs to be put out of its misery, when often, an experienced Rehabilitator would be able to repair the fracture and return the animal back to the wild. I belief that a license to collect animals it a bit more difficult to obtain. Congratulations on your eggs. Let’s hope they hatch. You may want to research turtle egg incubation, as it is my understanding that you do now want to warm them too much. Also, be careful to not rotate the egg at all when moving it. One method to be sure, is to pencil an X on the top of the egg.

One thing you may want to look into is getting your State Wildlife Rehabilitator license. This will permit you to care for sick animals, should you encounter any in the future. Turtles have an amazing ability to recover illness and physical injury. Your female is a great example of this. People may find a turtle with a severe shell fracture, and think that the animal needs to be put out of its misery, when often, an experienced Rehabilitator would be able to repair the fracture and return the animal back to the wild.

I belief that a license to collect animals it a bit more difficult to obtain.

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