Turtle Eggs

Sorry if this is in the wrong spot I'm on an limited amount of time and in a rush. So move it to where ever it belongs. Ok well I came home for a week from school and there were a couple piles of mulch near our house. Well just not 6/12/11 8:21 i noticed what I believe turtle eggs strewn all over the flower bed. There were still 5 kinda hidden in the mulch pile. Well apparently my parents neglected to tell the person going to school for wildlife management we had turtle eggs all over the place. :rage: Well I'm not familiar with hatching anything other than chicken eggs and these things are 20 miles from where they were found and not logical to take it back to a mulch supplier. So I'm gonna try to salvage the 5 that weren't damaged. Some quick questions. First of all I'm gonna get a 1/3 mix of vermiculite-playsand-peatmoss. But what temp should I set the incubator? What temp.


I would also like thank all that help. I know the information is out there I just don't have anytime today or tommorrow to look for it other than the small amount I set aside for getting the eggs in the incubator. And I know sadly the probability of these eggs hatching are slim to none. Figured I'd candle them if it is safe for them to.

I don't personally know anything about incubating turtle eggs...but I would imagine the answers would come first from knowing what species you're looking at. Any way to tell? At least, a hint at where you're located so folks can look into local species to help narrow it down?

Good luck with them!

EDIT for one more thought: I've never heard of an egg that wasn't "safe" to candle. And if the foundling eggs have such slim odds of hatching anyhow, I can't imagine that candling them would hurt in any way. It's a good way to tell if they're even worth the effort.

i found a clutch a turtle eggs a couple years ago that a raccoon had ravaged. there were 4 or 5 good eggs so i took them home and threw them into the incubator with my cornsnake eggs. i used the same medium as they were found in an just placed them in the incubator. they all hatched perfectly ...btw they ended up being eastern soft shelled turtles and i released them back to were they were laid a week afetr hatching.
adam jeffery