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 On Wednesday October
3rd before 6:30 a.m.
the turtle team
became proud parents
of a wiggly
hatchling
Southern Pacific Pond Turtle. Then on
Thursday a second
egg hatched. The 5th
and final viable egg
hatched on October
11th.
Back to where it
began, six eggs
were laid
by a recently
captured female
on July
6,
2007 in the special
Pond Turtle
enclosure built by
the Turtle Team of
Darrell Barnes, Bill
Foster,
Birdie Foster,
Chris
Hancock, Gordon
Hancock, Jeff King,
Dave Kurdeka and
Reed Tollefson. It
took
between 89
and 97 days
to hatch the
individual turtle
eggs in a
special incubator
which was
temperature and
humidity controlled.
Each of these little guys
or gals
hatch slightly smaller
than a quarter.
A new hatchling is
so tiny it would be
just an hors
d'oeuvres for a bass
or bullfrog. The
purpose of the
turtle project is to
raise pond turtle
hatchlings to a
releasable size 70
mm or greater.
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