06-29-2003, 08:00 PM
sounds like tourist kill unless you dug up the eggs and planted them in a sandy area in the sun some where away from the road. the reptiles are smart when it come to finding just the right thermal conditiones for planting their eggs, but locations at times are less than desierable at times.
I have built tourtle incubators they are realy quite easy. a 2x6 nailed in to a box frame filled with play sand on the southern exposure of the house will incubate the eggs properly. I do this when I find a snapper that has eggs in the belly. turtles can hold eggs for several years till they think the conditions are just right for incubations.
after eggs hatch you emeadeatly take the hatchlings to their proper areas; box turtles to furn forest and snappers to swamp land connected to larer lakes painted turtles to the shore of lakes.
this will provide the best posible contitions for survival for the hatchlings. mostly becoause the journy home is the most dangrous time for them after hatching. there are all sorts of critteres that eat these new hatchlings like possoms racoons crows
you know with the thousands of mobiles traveling down that road some one will drive over that spot and crush the eggs.
It is always a pleasent suprize to see nature at work. thanks for the snap shot....[cool]
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I have built tourtle incubators they are realy quite easy. a 2x6 nailed in to a box frame filled with play sand on the southern exposure of the house will incubate the eggs properly. I do this when I find a snapper that has eggs in the belly. turtles can hold eggs for several years till they think the conditions are just right for incubations.
after eggs hatch you emeadeatly take the hatchlings to their proper areas; box turtles to furn forest and snappers to swamp land connected to larer lakes painted turtles to the shore of lakes.
this will provide the best posible contitions for survival for the hatchlings. mostly becoause the journy home is the most dangrous time for them after hatching. there are all sorts of critteres that eat these new hatchlings like possoms racoons crows
you know with the thousands of mobiles traveling down that road some one will drive over that spot and crush the eggs.
It is always a pleasent suprize to see nature at work. thanks for the snap shot....[cool]
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