Hatching of 2nd & 3rd eggs

Imagine my excitement on 8 April 2010 when 2 more eggs began to crack and hatch. This has been a full 42 days after the first egg hatched on 25 Feb 2010!

One egg has a tiny crack showing its intact egg membrane.

The other egg has some blood oozing out. The master hatcher opened some of its egg shell. Lo and behold, there is a baby turtle swimming inside the watery egg sac covered with red blood vessels. The baby looks formed already with its black markings. The watery sac pulsates. It  sometimes turns over as though doing a somersault in a swimming pool.

Till 16 April, a full 8 days later, the 2 eggs are still "hatching" with a very slow progress. Wait for more news!

Update on 1 May 2010 : The cracked egg is found to be without an embryo. The opened egg did not survive.

A star is born

A little star was born on 25 Feb 2010, slightly over 4 months from the time its egg was laid on 22 Oct 2009 in the land of Singapore, by a mother star tortoise in a tiny green garden in the west part of this tiny country.

                                       Its slightly tilted first world-view


It was a long and patient wait, incubating this little star in an artificial incubator carefully watched over by 2 adoptive parents, one of whom has the hobby of incubating all kinds of eggs and seeing them hatched. This little star was the first out of a batch of 7 eggs laid.
Its name is Kuah Lei Xiang Kang, which means " happiness and health' in Chinese. It brought joy to all in my family, as he was born during the 15 days of the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2010.

Isn't it wonderful to see the creativity of our Father God. It is instinctive for the baby tortoise to hatch itself, no one need to tell it what to do to be born. Today this new life is scuttling around in its little home. It weighed only 15 gm at birth.

I am looking forward to more babies from this hatch of 7 to complete its family.

Giving a million-dollar smile as it tries to get out of its shell, taking more than 2 days to get to this stage

Sure glad to be out of its shell after 4 long months.

Taking its first walk on earth

Taking a yummy cherry tomato, its first meal.

Taking its first ride on top of  its mother.