What a great weekend these little guys have made for us here (Manouria emys emys aka Burmese/SE Asian Brown Mountain Tortoise). This years clutch was pretty small, but the hatch rate was good at 26 for 28 eggs this season. My favorite pic is the last one... look at that egg tooth! YEOW! :) I'm always in awe of how 'primitive' this species is. Their eggs start out soft almost like a python egg, harden up a bit over the next 4 weeks or so, then soften again the last couple weeks of incubation. When the babies pip out, the egg shells are soft and nearly paper thin! Amazing to me...

Hope you enjoy!

Matt
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That is so cool, congrats!

Very cool pics, congrats on the new babies.:rockon:

aww they are precious

How cool to see this

That's just sweet man! Thanks for posting them up! :yessir:


Cheers,
Kat

The first couple pics of them still in the egg looks like their thinkin' " pleez don't woke me up." I love the egg tooth shot also.

That is awesome!

Name something cuter than a clutch of baby turtles hatching...

It looks like their shells just bust out the egg. Great pics!

That is so cool....Thanks for sharing and Congrats :cheers:

Thanks, folks! Much appreciated. Unfortunately, one baby died in egg. Looks like it had trouble overall, so it was probably for the best. Yeah, I'm with you Diana... an incubator full of baby torts is always a good (cute?!) thing! :)

Thanks again-

Matt

Definatly going to be picking up some this year!!!!
Very nice man!!Been wanting some of these guys for a while now!!:rockon:

Those are incredible.
I have always wanted to work with those