How do turtle eggs hatch?

Now that many people begin to breed turtles, artificial breeding turtles are faced with the problem of hatching, so how do turtle eggs hatch? Let's get to know it together.

First, the production of incubator

An incubator is a box used to hatch turtle eggs. When making an incubator, special attention should be paid to air permeability, which is the key to the incubator.

1. It is very simple to make an incubator. First of all, find a box with a lid, which must have a lid, because the lid can maintain the humidity in the incubator, and the lid had better be transparent.

2. Secondly, make a small breathable hole in each of the four corners of the lid with an electric soldering iron, so that the hatching box is ready. Pay attention to not making too many breathable holes, four is enough, otherwise the moisturizing effect will be greatly reduced.

2. Materials for hatching turtle eggs

1. Incubation materials

There are many kinds of hatching materials for turtle eggs, including soil, anything and vermiculite, but in terms of humidity maintenance, vermiculite is the best choice, so it is recommended that we use vermiculite. Vermiculite can be bought from the market and the price is not expensive.

2. Cleaning and disinfection

Wash the hatching material in water several times to ensure that the hatching material is clean and pollution-free, put it in a microwave oven and disinfect it at high temperature for 3-5 minutes. Finally, soak vermiculite in pure water for about 30 minutes.

3. Moisture control

The vermiculite is drained and the vermiculite is not wet until it can be pinched into a mass. This step is very important. If the moisture is not enough, the moisturizing time is short and too wet, which will cause the embryo to grow too fast in the environment of high temperature and humidity, and the embryo will develop too much. The air in the egg is filled, and the embryo is suffocated to death in the egg. This is basically the cause of the death of the fertilized egg in the later stage of incubation, so this step should be particularly careful.

Third, the arrangement of incubator

1. The thickness of vermiculite

Put the drained vermiculite into a prepared incubator. The thickness of the vermiculite is about half to 2/3 of the height of the box, leaving a small half of the space for eggs. The bottom should not be too thick.

2. The placement of thermometers

There is not much attention to the placement of the thermometer. Put the thermometer flat on the incubation material and put it aside.

3. The placement of eggs

① will mark the egg laid, and which side of the egg will be marked up. This mark is made so that the egg can be restored to its original position without affecting the embryonic development after a slight rotation during the development of the egg and after an accidental turn.

② will move the egg out, put it on top of the vermiculite in the incubator, fix the egg, close the lid, and the incubator will be arranged.

IV. Management of incubation period

1. The method of increasing humidity

① vermiculite with water

After two months of incubation, the humidity of vermiculite has evaporated, so it is necessary to add water to vermiculite. You can inject pure water into vermiculite with syringe or spray vermiculite with a spray can.

② replace vermiculite

Remake an incubator, replace it with new vermiculite, and move the egg into the new incubator. Similarly, vermiculite needs the right amount of water.

Calculation of shell time: the shell time can be inferred according to the hatching temperature. Generally, water droplets will appear before the eggs come out of the shell. At this time, you should often open the incubator and take it out as long as the larvae come out, so as to prevent the larvae from turning to other eggs in the incubator, causing damage to other eggs and unnecessary losses.

V. feeding and management of larvae

1. The newly hatched larvae have relatively high humidity in the incubator, so once they come out of the shell, they must create an environment with relatively high humidity, wait for the humidity to evaporate slowly, and cannot be put directly into a relatively dry environment, otherwise the larvae will not adapt.

2. Generally, the larvae are not fed until 3 days later.

The above is an introduction to how turtle eggs hatch.