Box Turtles (and others!)

Box Turtles (and others!)
Bulb Exchange! (Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:42:18 PDT)

Turtle eggs remain viable for some time in roadkill females.

Buy a Hovabator. Set it to 84F. Turtle eggs cannot be turned once laid, so
dont touch them. (You can mark the top with a pencil if it helps).
Maintain high humidity in the incubator.

Its morbid, but eggs can be removed from roadkill females and incubated to
hatching (8 weeks). 84F will give about an even mix of males and females.

I used to do this EVERY YEAR with diamondback terrapins killed along roads
in South Jersey as a kid.

This should absolutely be done whenever possible for a plethora of obvious
reasons. If the females are hit already....this can ONLY help.

Release the babies...

Contact me privately with questions, comments, concerns or complaints.

Albert

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:07 PM Mark Mazer <markemazer@gmail.com> wrote:

" I wonder if there are any other friends-of-the-box-turtle on this
list." Yup. We almost always stop and move them off of the road when we
see them. There are several old timers near the house on the farm that
have been seen repeatedly over the years. It's one reason we keep the
lawnmower set at 3.5 inches. Rehoming is fraught with problems and is
quite stressful on them. Best to return the rescues back to the location
where they were found. They are very territorial.

Mark Mazer
Belvidere, NC 27919

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 6:18 PM Jim McKenney via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Congratulations, Nick. That's what I like about bulbs: they are always
teaching us something - or at any rate making us wonder why things happen
the way they do.On to another topic: Judy mentioned box turtle eggs in a
post today. Did you get eggs this year? I wonder if there are any other
friends-of-the-box-turtle on this list. I have plans to build a box

turtle

pen in the far back of the garden (adjacent to the local major park which
has or used to have box turtles). The pen will be designed so that
potential predators (mainly raccoons, which we have in abundance) will

not

be able to get to the box turtles but any hatchlings will be able to get
through openings in the screening and wander off into the woods. And

where

will I get the adult box turtles? I'm going to contact local wildlife
rescue groups in the hope that they occasionally get injured box

turtles,

turtles not deemed likely to survive back in the wild. I can provide a
great home for them, and maybe help replenish the local population.
Jim MdKenneyMontgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7. where box
turtles used to be very common - sadly, that's no longer true.

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