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i have two turtles2007-11-24 2:00:54

they just mated and i know that i am going to have to deal with baby turtles,but i want to know how long it will take, what they will need to make a nest and what kind of food to feed the new turtles.i don't need the answer right away but it would be nice

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What kind of turtles do you have? If you want to keep the eggs you will need to incubate them, if you think you can't you can always throw them away. If you do want to incubate them you need to know what you are gonna do with all those baby turtles. Also if this is the first time the have mated, the eggs may not even be fertile, so it may be a waste of time to incubate. But you still need to make a land area for your female because if she doesn't have a place to lay her eggs she will become egg bound and could die. If these are water turtles you can take her out and put her in her land area for about an hour each day. You can do this more than once a day also. If she lays them in the water, and you don't get to them in time, throw them out cuz the babies will have already drown. If you pick up the eggs to put them in an incubator, DO NOT turn the eggs.

Although applying principally to the incubation of California desert tortoise eggs, the following suggestions are for all turtle and tortoise eggs in general. Always bear in mind that there is no one method that will assure success and that in some cases an entire clutch of eggs will be infertile and not capable of hatching under even ideal conditions.