Check The Turtle Eggs

July 23rd, 2008

The turtle eggs are checked about once a week to see that they are moist and not deteriorating or moldy. Mold can be carefully wiped away with a cotton swab if it develops. We do not pick them up to clean them because they break very easily. At about 50 days, we look at them often to see if they are hatching. A turtle may lie in the egg several days after breaking it open. During this time it absorbs the last of the egg yoke sack attached to its belly. A baby turtle has an egg tooth for breaking open the egg which appears as a white bump on its noise.

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