...that could result from that chicken getting scared and trying to run has me grimacing.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
So That's Why They're Called 50 Caliber Ammo Cans
They surely fit in those can nicely, all those 50 caliber BMG rounds. Truly a beautiful sight to behold.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Trump Back Peddling
Donald Trump made many bold and refreshing campaign promises. Among the many, just to name a few, were that he would:
prosecute Hillary Clinton, deport all illegal aliens, he will build a wall along our border with Mexico and Mexico will pay for it, would be very pro right to keep and bear arms, would appoint conservative Supreme Court Justices, would pull the U.S. out of NATO and on and on and on.
Of the ones I just mentioned he reportedly has stepped back on a number of those issues now that he is president elect. In his interview on 60 Minutes (as per this Fox news report) he in essence said this about some of those campaign promises:
He has not given prosecution of Hillary Clinton much thought.
He will build a structure along the Mexican border that will include some wall but also some fence (and believe me, there would be a big difference, a border fence is much more easily breached than is a border wall, I was in the Border Patrol for 4 years and state that as plain and simple fact).
He will deport criminal aliens - not mentioning the millions of illegals who do not fall into that category.
Has told President Obama that he intends to maintain our alliances within NATO (source).
If he is already changing his tune on those issues - think about what he will do as opposed to what he said he would do relative to all of the others. So, will he actually appoint conservative Supreme Court Justices? Will he support the RKBA? Will he be very tough on illegal immigration? Will he deport the illegal alien leeches who are sucking our system dry at the expense of the citizenry and legal resident aliens? Will be build that wall to keep them out? My vote was about the most valuable things I have in my possession and I don't need to waste what ones I cast on a lying sack of shit who goes back on his word virtually as soon as he is elected. As for Trump, I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now. Personally, I think it too soon to judge him; I figure let's give him a chance and see what he actually does. Then if he starts going back on his campaign promises, maybe we can sue him for breach of promise and have his arse kicked out of office. I am hoping though that he becomes the best president of my lifetime by keeping his promises to make America great again and that would mean he keeps those promises. Yet, I am gravely concerned and am wondering is he truly a Washington, DC outsider with a different way of running our country at heart or is he just another lying politician spewing forth from a mouth full of foul slimy swill and saying anything to get what he wants. Only his actions and time will tell but I will give him that chance to prove or disprove himself.
All the best,
Glenn B
prosecute Hillary Clinton, deport all illegal aliens, he will build a wall along our border with Mexico and Mexico will pay for it, would be very pro right to keep and bear arms, would appoint conservative Supreme Court Justices, would pull the U.S. out of NATO and on and on and on.
Of the ones I just mentioned he reportedly has stepped back on a number of those issues now that he is president elect. In his interview on 60 Minutes (as per this Fox news report) he in essence said this about some of those campaign promises:
He has not given prosecution of Hillary Clinton much thought.
He will build a structure along the Mexican border that will include some wall but also some fence (and believe me, there would be a big difference, a border fence is much more easily breached than is a border wall, I was in the Border Patrol for 4 years and state that as plain and simple fact).
He will deport criminal aliens - not mentioning the millions of illegals who do not fall into that category.
Has told President Obama that he intends to maintain our alliances within NATO (source).
If he is already changing his tune on those issues - think about what he will do as opposed to what he said he would do relative to all of the others. So, will he actually appoint conservative Supreme Court Justices? Will he support the RKBA? Will he be very tough on illegal immigration? Will he deport the illegal alien leeches who are sucking our system dry at the expense of the citizenry and legal resident aliens? Will be build that wall to keep them out? My vote was about the most valuable things I have in my possession and I don't need to waste what ones I cast on a lying sack of shit who goes back on his word virtually as soon as he is elected. As for Trump, I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now. Personally, I think it too soon to judge him; I figure let's give him a chance and see what he actually does. Then if he starts going back on his campaign promises, maybe we can sue him for breach of promise and have his arse kicked out of office. I am hoping though that he becomes the best president of my lifetime by keeping his promises to make America great again and that would mean he keeps those promises. Yet, I am gravely concerned and am wondering is he truly a Washington, DC outsider with a different way of running our country at heart or is he just another lying politician spewing forth from a mouth full of foul slimy swill and saying anything to get what he wants. Only his actions and time will tell but I will give him that chance to prove or disprove himself.
All the best,
Glenn B
Monday, November 14, 2016
CEO Threatens To Assassinate Trump
I always knew leftists were crazy, especially the ones without jobs who are still, at least figuratively, being breast fed by their mommies and having their daddies award them participation trophies despite them being losers. I just never kind of realized that the psychos also hold jobs and good ones at that.
The CEO of a San Diego cyber-security firm reportedly has posted blatant death threats, on social media sites, against president elect Donald Trump. He allegedly posted this to his Twitter account: "I’m going to kill the president. Elect,". He also reportedly posted that he in essence was getting a sniper rifle and positioning himself where it would count; he even challenged the Secret Service to 'bring it". More here.
Folks this is getting serious and I surprisingly fear we may be closer to a civil war than I imagined possible in my life time, one that will be started by the left (at least that part is no surprise to me).
All the best,
Glenn B
The CEO of a San Diego cyber-security firm reportedly has posted blatant death threats, on social media sites, against president elect Donald Trump. He allegedly posted this to his Twitter account: "I’m going to kill the president. Elect,". He also reportedly posted that he in essence was getting a sniper rifle and positioning himself where it would count; he even challenged the Secret Service to 'bring it". More here.
Folks this is getting serious and I surprisingly fear we may be closer to a civil war than I imagined possible in my life time, one that will be started by the left (at least that part is no surprise to me).
All the best,
Glenn B
Piers Morgan Finally Getting It Right About America...
...or at least about the leftists in this country. I have to say, I never thought I'd agree with him on anything but am pretty much in full agreement with everything his says about Clinton and her celebrity and media supporters in this piece. Then again, maybe it was really The Onion that published it.
Hat tip to Peter Q for having that article posted on his FB page.
All the best,
Glenn B
Hat tip to Peter Q for having that article posted on his FB page.
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, November 12, 2016
"This Is Not a Day Care...
...It's A University!"
So commenced a letter to the students of Oklahoma Wesleyan University from the university's president because one of the students had complained he had been made to feel victimized by a sermon given at the religious school.
Red the rest of it here.
All the best,
Glenn B
So commenced a letter to the students of Oklahoma Wesleyan University from the university's president because one of the students had complained he had been made to feel victimized by a sermon given at the religious school.
Red the rest of it here.
All the best,
Glenn B
Leftist Mother Of The Year
Hopefully, this bitch will be found and prosecuted for child abuse.
Some people out there must know the child and thus could report the mother. There may be little chance of that happening but maybe one of the many will be good hearted enough to do so.
All the best,
GB
Some people out there must know the child and thus could report the mother. There may be little chance of that happening but maybe one of the many will be good hearted enough to do so.
All the best,
GB
Going Hunting
Will be gone a day or three. Probably no blogging while gone unless I bag a worthy beast, take a picture of it with my cell phone and post it.
Later 4 U,
GB
Later 4 U,
GB
Friday, November 11, 2016
The First Woman To Run A Successful Presidential...
...campaign here in the USA was not Hillary Clinton but instead was Kellyanne Conway (more on her here and note how differently Wikipedia describes her education than does Cosmoploitan with the nod going to Cosmo). Of course by run, I do not mean she was a candidate in the running but rather was the manager of Donald Trump's campaign who ran day to day operations.
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| My thanks to Mrs. Conway for a job superbly done for the good of We The People of the United States of America. |
I imagine that anyone with half a brain does not need to wonder why leftists and the mud slinging media are not celebrating her accomplishment; for those without half a brain let me explain that the stark truth is that their failure to do so, regardless of who won or who lost the election, is pure hypocrisy. The Democrat Party is supposedly the self proclaimed party for women (and just about every other special interest group except the NRA, Christian & Jewish religious groups, or groups supporting legal as opposed to illegal immigration). Their candidate, Hillary Clinton, was supposedly the champion of women. Leftists always have been yammering that Trump is a misogynist and on and on and on - you already know the liberal agenda against him.
Well, now we have a marvelous accomplishment achieved by a woman, employed by the alleged woman hating Trump campaign in an almost strictly male dominated business, that of running political campaigns and being the first to do so for a victorious presidential candidate. So where is the hoopla on the left, why are their no kudos for her from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Tim Kane, Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin (I wonder to where has she disappeared), John Podesta, Jennifer Palmieri, Bill Maher, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Cher, Oprah, Madonna (she has a lot of BJs to give before she flees the US), Al Sharpton, Bob Beckel, Anderson Cooper, Juan Williams or George Soros and all the others? Why is this not big news on the media, why is Chris (no tingle down his leg this time) Matthews not reporting on it in a very big way? Yes, there may be a blurb here and there but nowhere near the headlines that this milestone deserves? Why is it not being celebrated as a major accomplishment for the women's rights movement?
Don't bother answering those questions, I already did so above. Yet, just in case you have less than half a brain and somehow missed it, I will make it clear for you again - it is because the Femocrat Democrat Party (aka: the left) is overloaded with hypocritical arsehats and little more than that.
All the best,
Glenn B
That Moment When You Realize Ammo Prices...
...will probably be dropping within a few months:
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Glock Advanced Armorers Course
I am scheduled to take the Glock Advanced Armorers Course tomorrow but am wondering if I will be able to get a good enough night's sleep with the suspense of wondering who won the election. I have no clue s to the status of the election right now and am hesitant to turn on my TV to check if the results are in yet. Yet, not turning on the TV to see who has won could have me suffering from uneasy dreams all night in which I see one or the other a the winner.
Then again, if I do opt to end the suspense tonight and turn on the flat screen to discover Clinton has won, there is a good chance I will be unable to sleep worrying about what is to come for us. There also is the chance I would fall asleep but then have terrible nightmares of her being the worst tyrant history has known.
Of course, Trump might be the winner and if I find that out, I might not be able to sleep just because of the excitement of wondering what greatness America might regain under his leadership.
Damn decisions - do I turn on the tube to see what is happening and ruin a good night's sleep or do I go to sleep and toss and turn in suspense with dreams full of wondering who won!
Whatever I do, I hope I stay awake for the class tomorrow.
All the best,
GB
Then again, if I do opt to end the suspense tonight and turn on the flat screen to discover Clinton has won, there is a good chance I will be unable to sleep worrying about what is to come for us. There also is the chance I would fall asleep but then have terrible nightmares of her being the worst tyrant history has known.
Of course, Trump might be the winner and if I find that out, I might not be able to sleep just because of the excitement of wondering what greatness America might regain under his leadership.
Damn decisions - do I turn on the tube to see what is happening and ruin a good night's sleep or do I go to sleep and toss and turn in suspense with dreams full of wondering who won!
Whatever I do, I hope I stay awake for the class tomorrow.
All the best,
GB
I Am Truly Afraid To Turn On My TV...
...and tune into the news to see what is going on with the election. I fear very much that the Wicked Witch of Little Rock may win. I am not sure I am ready to hear that result, let alone being ready for her brand of governing or what may result in our nation if it becomes the tyranny I expect it to become under her reign. I am not usually a praying man but tonight I have been covering all bases and have said a prayer for the Trump/Pence team and for the US of A.
All the best,
GB
All the best,
GB
I Voted...
...and for most of the day I will not pay almost any attention to the pundits on either side. I will go about my business and then sometime later tonight, I will turn on the flat screen (used to say 'turn on the tube') to see who has won the election. Then it will either be a celebratory cheer in honor of The Donald as president or, if the other one wins, it will be the gnashing of my teeth of my teeth that will be so hard as to cause a trembling achiness down through my bones at the thought of another tyrant having been elected to destroy our once great nation.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
To All Of The Never Trump Voters...
...who are Republicans, Conservatives, Independents - if Clinton wins today then I hope you will be able to live with your decision because we will be thrown into a political, legal, ethical and moral abyss the likes of which this country has not seen before. Do any of you truly believe that Clinton is the better choice or that throwing away your vote, by voting third party or by not voting at all, you will be doing something good for America? If so, get your heads out of your arses because all you are doing is being selfish and not looking at the big picture. Go out today and do something for the USA, vote Trump/Pence to prevent that witch Clinton from taking the reigns of power and destroying any semblance of a Constitutional United States of America. If you don't vote Trump/Pence either because you don't vote at all or because you vote third party as a Never Trump type then shame on you when our country's very foundation and prosperity is at stake.
Vote Trump/Pence while you still have the chance. If you don't think there is a good enough reason to vote for them, then read this.
All the best,
Glenn B
Vote Trump/Pence while you still have the chance. If you don't think there is a good enough reason to vote for them, then read this.
All the best,
Glenn B
Monday, November 7, 2016
VOTE TRUMP/PENCE And Here Are The Reasons To Do So
VOTE TRUMP/PENCE. Trump is not a politician and we need to clean house, the White House, of the typical scum who have been in DC for much too long. Need I say more? If you think I should say more, let me just show you this, a Facebook post written by my friend Kirk P. He said it better than I could have said it by far:
"Final thoughts going into election day. I have spent a lot of time contemplating what this election really boils down to. Oddly, a scene from a movie kept popping into my head. I am sure most of you have seen the second Rambo movie, where he rescues the Vietnam POW's. At the very end of the movie, Rambo's Col. asks him "What is it that you want, Johnny?" Rambo motions towards the now rescued POW's and answers "I want what they want - for our country to love US as much as we love IT!". For the past 8 years, I, and millions of people like me, have been told that we are what is wrong with America. That somehow breaking our asses to try to provide a decent standard of living for our families made us Enemies of the State (or as killary called us "irredeemable deplorables"). At the same time, sexual deviants who can't figure out what bathrooms to use, spoiled brat college students who need protection from scary words, and violent protesters who openly advocate the killing of cops have all been promoted to Sainthood by this current regime which clearly stated that it intended to "fundamentally transform our nation". Well I have been observing this transformation just as you have, and I don't like it. Not one damned bit. Then Mr. Trump came along. He gave us a voice and stood up to the existing powers who are trying to say that we are hateful for wanting secure borders and a safe and orderly society for our wives and children. And we responded to Mr. Trump in a way that I haven't seen since Ronald Reagan. I was too young to vote for Reagan, and honestly the stakes were not NEARLY as high back then as they are now. Even if you don't like Trump, consider the fact that if Trump was NOT the answer you thought he would be, we get to clean house again in 4 years. BUT - If we elect Hillary Clinton, we have given tacit approval to our gov't to literally act without regard to the law, the People, or the Constitution. The corruption that Mr. Trump has exposed (WikiLeaks as well), will be so deeply entrenched in 4 years of killary at the helm that we will never be able to recover from it. And to those who supported Bernie? I will tell you straight up that although I disagree with him on pretty much everything, our country would have been far better off with a Sanders administration than it will with a Clinton regime. And it has been proven that Bernie very well may have been the nominee if the primary was not rigged against him. And now you are going to vote for Hillary? That has to be like being forced to marry your rapist. But tomorrow we have the opportunity to stop all of this dead in it's tracks, and I pray that all of you will see fit to oppose the most corrupt human being that has ever run for high office. Electing Mr. Trump will put every single establishment politician in this country on notice - they will see that we ARE paying attention, and that we will no longer tolerate their crap, regardless of party affiliation. We will also be giving the finger to a media who is supposed to be our watchdog, but has become corrupted to such a degree that they don't even PRETEND to be neutral anymore. In closing - we have a chance to right a whole bunch of wrongs tomorrow. And if you DO vote for Clinton for ANY reason, do not DARE ever say "they're all crooks, it doesn't matter who you vote for". Because tomorrow we have the opportunity to vote for someone who is decidedly NOT "the same as every other politician" - just the fact that the establishment of BOTH parties have done all they could to stop him is irrefutable proof of that. So tomorrow, let's all give a great big middle finger to the corrupt powers that be - LET'S VOTE TRUMP!!!" (Reprinted with permission of the author.)
That was well thought out, logical, sensible, forceful, and just friggin excellent reasoning as to why any American voter with at least half a brain should vote for the Trump/Pence ticket.
All the best,
Glenn B
"Final thoughts going into election day. I have spent a lot of time contemplating what this election really boils down to. Oddly, a scene from a movie kept popping into my head. I am sure most of you have seen the second Rambo movie, where he rescues the Vietnam POW's. At the very end of the movie, Rambo's Col. asks him "What is it that you want, Johnny?" Rambo motions towards the now rescued POW's and answers "I want what they want - for our country to love US as much as we love IT!". For the past 8 years, I, and millions of people like me, have been told that we are what is wrong with America. That somehow breaking our asses to try to provide a decent standard of living for our families made us Enemies of the State (or as killary called us "irredeemable deplorables"). At the same time, sexual deviants who can't figure out what bathrooms to use, spoiled brat college students who need protection from scary words, and violent protesters who openly advocate the killing of cops have all been promoted to Sainthood by this current regime which clearly stated that it intended to "fundamentally transform our nation". Well I have been observing this transformation just as you have, and I don't like it. Not one damned bit. Then Mr. Trump came along. He gave us a voice and stood up to the existing powers who are trying to say that we are hateful for wanting secure borders and a safe and orderly society for our wives and children. And we responded to Mr. Trump in a way that I haven't seen since Ronald Reagan. I was too young to vote for Reagan, and honestly the stakes were not NEARLY as high back then as they are now. Even if you don't like Trump, consider the fact that if Trump was NOT the answer you thought he would be, we get to clean house again in 4 years. BUT - If we elect Hillary Clinton, we have given tacit approval to our gov't to literally act without regard to the law, the People, or the Constitution. The corruption that Mr. Trump has exposed (WikiLeaks as well), will be so deeply entrenched in 4 years of killary at the helm that we will never be able to recover from it. And to those who supported Bernie? I will tell you straight up that although I disagree with him on pretty much everything, our country would have been far better off with a Sanders administration than it will with a Clinton regime. And it has been proven that Bernie very well may have been the nominee if the primary was not rigged against him. And now you are going to vote for Hillary? That has to be like being forced to marry your rapist. But tomorrow we have the opportunity to stop all of this dead in it's tracks, and I pray that all of you will see fit to oppose the most corrupt human being that has ever run for high office. Electing Mr. Trump will put every single establishment politician in this country on notice - they will see that we ARE paying attention, and that we will no longer tolerate their crap, regardless of party affiliation. We will also be giving the finger to a media who is supposed to be our watchdog, but has become corrupted to such a degree that they don't even PRETEND to be neutral anymore. In closing - we have a chance to right a whole bunch of wrongs tomorrow. And if you DO vote for Clinton for ANY reason, do not DARE ever say "they're all crooks, it doesn't matter who you vote for". Because tomorrow we have the opportunity to vote for someone who is decidedly NOT "the same as every other politician" - just the fact that the establishment of BOTH parties have done all they could to stop him is irrefutable proof of that. So tomorrow, let's all give a great big middle finger to the corrupt powers that be - LET'S VOTE TRUMP!!!" (Reprinted with permission of the author.)
That was well thought out, logical, sensible, forceful, and just friggin excellent reasoning as to why any American voter with at least half a brain should vote for the Trump/Pence ticket.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Mr. President - You Got That Ass Backwards
When you vote, as an illegal alien, you are not suddenly a citizen! Yet, you said when you vote you are a citizen! The right thing to have answered was that only U.S. citizens can vote in the upcoming election and for an illegal, or even a legal, alien to do so in our elections would be a criminal act. The fact is that when you are a citizen is when you can vote, aliens cannot legally vote in our federal elections. That would have been the right thing to say along with telling the interviewer, who claims to be an illegal alien, that it would be a heinous and criminal act to vote when not a citizen and that it would be dealt with appropriately.
Let's face it, let no one make any mistake about your answer and its obvious intent - you were evidently encouraging an illegal act relative to one of our most cherished rights and important responsibilities - the act of a citizen casting his or her vote during an election. There can be absolutely no mistake as to what the woman asked you. She asked you if she, as an illegal alien, votes - will Immigration come looking for her.
It seems to me that you then gave an answer that in every conceivable way goes to encourage illegal aliens to illegally vote in Tuesday's election. You have apparently encouraged an illegal act and you are the president of the nation against which that crime would be committed. You sir, in my opinion, are worthy of only one thing - immediate impeachment.
Vote Trump,
Glenn B
Let's face it, let no one make any mistake about your answer and its obvious intent - you were evidently encouraging an illegal act relative to one of our most cherished rights and important responsibilities - the act of a citizen casting his or her vote during an election. There can be absolutely no mistake as to what the woman asked you. She asked you if she, as an illegal alien, votes - will Immigration come looking for her.
It seems to me that you then gave an answer that in every conceivable way goes to encourage illegal aliens to illegally vote in Tuesday's election. You have apparently encouraged an illegal act and you are the president of the nation against which that crime would be committed. You sir, in my opinion, are worthy of only one thing - immediate impeachment.
Vote Trump,
Glenn B
If You Took The Time To Change Your Clocks Today...
...then take the time this Tuesday to change your country back to being great again.
All the best,
GB
All the best,
GB
At The Right Place At The Right Time...
...for I change was I today! It just so happened that I walked by the tortoise enclosure today as my female Hermann's Tortoise was excavating a hole into which to lay her eggs. I picked her up and checked but she had not started dropping the eggs yet, so I added a bit more cypress mulch to the tank to make it a bit deeper and set her down on it above the hole she had dug. About a half hour later, I looked again and there was one egg. Maybe an hour and a half or two later and she had closed over the hole already.
When I checked I found one smashed egg near the surface of the substrate and four more hopefully healthy and fertile ones further down. This is the first time, in probably the last 2 years or more, that I have caught her in the act. That smashed egg may mean too little calcium in her diet but I kind of doubt that since I give them a varied diet that should contain enough. Some cuttlebone will be added to her diet to supplement it so that when she lays again next spring or summer, she won't have any chance of a calcium deficiency. Mind you, I am not saying she is deficient in calcium, just that it could be possible especially if she laid eggs during the summer when she had free reign of the fenced in portion of our backyard which could mean me finding some babies in the yard next spring).
As for me being at the right place at the right time, knowing that she is laying or very recently has laid eggs is pretty important because the eggs require a temperature between about 80 to 94 degrees, for the duration of their incubation, in order to survive. Too cold and they die, too hot and they can die, or if they survive the babies are likely to be born deformed. It does not take more than a couple to few hours to kill the eggs either way. I got them into the incubator within 10 or 15 minutes of my realization that she had completed her task. The incubator is a Hovabator brand, the type often used for quail and other fowl eggs. I'll be keeping a close watch on it to make sure it does not get too hot before I hit the hay for the night, more likely to die if they fry than if a tiny bit on the cooler side. The thermostat can take several hours or more to be fully adjusted so I will be checking every 20 minutes or so.
Over the past couple to few years, when I incubated what eggs I found from her, they all either were infertile, died before I got them into the incubator because I did not realize soon enough that she had laid eggs, or died during incubation either because of disease or because the thermostat malfunctioned. There is a chance that the male I have is not producing viable sperm. Of course, I suppose there is a chance that the female has become barren but I doubt that since she has produced viable eggs in the past - just never with the new male. With my original male the eggs were always fertilized but he disappeared from my yard three or four years back, stolen I suspect. I then put a different and much younger, possibly too young to breed, male in with the female. Too young or not, he sure was horny and has performed every chance he has gotten. Time will tell, this time around, if he is fertile or not because I caught the female in the act and got those eggs into the incubator without delay. They are also in a newer incubator so if the old one maybe malfunctioned and killed the eggs, it is less likely to happen this time.
Speaking of time, it should take anywhere from about 65 to 90 days for the eggs to hatch at the temperature range in which they will incubate. I plan to keep the temps between about 86 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. That should produce a mix of males and females or possibly all females if the temp steadily runs at the higher end of that. The sex of hatchling tortoises is determined by the temperatures at which they are kept during the incubation. The higher temps, within the safe range, cause all females to develop while the lower temps in that range allow for all males. Somewhere between them produces a mixture of males and females. I would settle for a mixture or all females. Either way, I will be happy if the four apparently good eggs all hatch.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that that ever horny little male finally is shooting live rounds. I should be able to candle the eggs to determine if the eggs are viable within a month or two at most or sooner. If they are alive and well, there will be obvious blood vessels lining part of the areas just within the shells. If not evident by then, chances will be that the eggs were never fertilized. As I said, time will tell.
All the best,
Glenn B
When I checked I found one smashed egg near the surface of the substrate and four more hopefully healthy and fertile ones further down. This is the first time, in probably the last 2 years or more, that I have caught her in the act. That smashed egg may mean too little calcium in her diet but I kind of doubt that since I give them a varied diet that should contain enough. Some cuttlebone will be added to her diet to supplement it so that when she lays again next spring or summer, she won't have any chance of a calcium deficiency. Mind you, I am not saying she is deficient in calcium, just that it could be possible especially if she laid eggs during the summer when she had free reign of the fenced in portion of our backyard which could mean me finding some babies in the yard next spring).
As for me being at the right place at the right time, knowing that she is laying or very recently has laid eggs is pretty important because the eggs require a temperature between about 80 to 94 degrees, for the duration of their incubation, in order to survive. Too cold and they die, too hot and they can die, or if they survive the babies are likely to be born deformed. It does not take more than a couple to few hours to kill the eggs either way. I got them into the incubator within 10 or 15 minutes of my realization that she had completed her task. The incubator is a Hovabator brand, the type often used for quail and other fowl eggs. I'll be keeping a close watch on it to make sure it does not get too hot before I hit the hay for the night, more likely to die if they fry than if a tiny bit on the cooler side. The thermostat can take several hours or more to be fully adjusted so I will be checking every 20 minutes or so.
Over the past couple to few years, when I incubated what eggs I found from her, they all either were infertile, died before I got them into the incubator because I did not realize soon enough that she had laid eggs, or died during incubation either because of disease or because the thermostat malfunctioned. There is a chance that the male I have is not producing viable sperm. Of course, I suppose there is a chance that the female has become barren but I doubt that since she has produced viable eggs in the past - just never with the new male. With my original male the eggs were always fertilized but he disappeared from my yard three or four years back, stolen I suspect. I then put a different and much younger, possibly too young to breed, male in with the female. Too young or not, he sure was horny and has performed every chance he has gotten. Time will tell, this time around, if he is fertile or not because I caught the female in the act and got those eggs into the incubator without delay. They are also in a newer incubator so if the old one maybe malfunctioned and killed the eggs, it is less likely to happen this time.
Speaking of time, it should take anywhere from about 65 to 90 days for the eggs to hatch at the temperature range in which they will incubate. I plan to keep the temps between about 86 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. That should produce a mix of males and females or possibly all females if the temp steadily runs at the higher end of that. The sex of hatchling tortoises is determined by the temperatures at which they are kept during the incubation. The higher temps, within the safe range, cause all females to develop while the lower temps in that range allow for all males. Somewhere between them produces a mixture of males and females. I would settle for a mixture or all females. Either way, I will be happy if the four apparently good eggs all hatch.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that that ever horny little male finally is shooting live rounds. I should be able to candle the eggs to determine if the eggs are viable within a month or two at most or sooner. If they are alive and well, there will be obvious blood vessels lining part of the areas just within the shells. If not evident by then, chances will be that the eggs were never fertilized. As I said, time will tell.
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, November 5, 2016
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