< The laying eggs report of red-eared slider, Kamemi 2005>

The report of laying eggs of Kamemi in this summer is as follows.

The report of 2004, 2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2009 ,2010

The 1st time
June 19 (Sun.)	She began to run busily in the house suddenly at dawn of this day.. Her first action for egg laying of this year has started at last. But she sometimes doesn't look like average turtles of laying eggs' season because she is in water obediently or eats like a horse...
	Our measures for layning eggs, "Turtle avoiding boards" 1. One board here, not to be broken a screen door. 2 . Don't enter this Japanese style room not to dig the mats. Go to anywhere eles freely please, Kamemi ! 2. Don't enter here, bed room,
	She was laid eggs easily using the flower pots in the balcony last year. So tryed to release her to the balcony when she began to dig on the carpet. But she wasn't interested in the soil in the flower pot this time. And I brought her to the field to make her dig the holes for laying eggs after an interval of two years. In the field where we visited after a long time, the rice field has changes into the marshy and gravels were paved on the path. There was no suitable place for her digging the holes than before, It was far from finding the place to dig, she was interested in the marshy to play.. Here where we had visited. Footpath beside the riever where Kamemi laid eggs several years ago. . She began to walk cheerfully there when she was released on the path. But... "I prefer here"She rolls into water of the marshy. She has not moved with the face thrown in to water. And she was drinking water there. I returned her to the bag while feeling it very hard to do it. Ane we came back to home. It was in the usual house there when she went out of the bag after we came back. "Where has that wonderful place gone ?" Kamemi tries to return to the bag of magic. "I'm sure that there is in it and I can go there if I enter in it." I wonder if she would feel that she had seen the phantom momentarily. Ahe has settled down quietly after she acted busily as usual during about ten days. She seems to have any eggs. But she didn't move at all and had the appetite terribly it looked like after having laid eggs. She took a rest for about one week. After then she began to act again.
July 15 (Fri.)	I released her to the balcony because she began to dig the carpet again after a while. So she began to dig the soil of a flower pot at all. And she laid eggs after she had dug the hole during about one hour. Special field in balcony sevral flower pots with soil enclosed in any pots that herb is planted. Kamemi laid eggs here last year. First of all, she dug the soil by her forefeet a little and threw in her nose to see the appearance. " I feel that it's too dry to lay eggs here for me." "I decided to choose this pot because it's a little damp, there is a moat response, Besides the soil is warm by the sun, because it is fine today. " She began to dig here. She has just been returning the soil after she has finished laying egg already when I went to see her there. Can you see yolk of a broken egg on your right a little from her tail ? There were 6 eggs including broken eggs. She has finished laying eggs safely after she had been acting for about a month, It took long time this time. I think that the reason may be that the rainy season continued long and there were a lot of chilly days.

The 2nd time
July 23 (Sat.)	Kamemi who was obedient until yesterday began to run busil yagain. It's only 8 days from the last egg laying.
July 29 (Fri.)	She began to scratch the carpet and seem to go out on the balcony. But I wasn't able to have her do it because they had disinfected planting outside the balcony on this day. I waited until the work ended, and released her there in the evening. Then she went to the flower pots at once and began to dig the holes for eggs. Though she kept digging up the hole for about one hour, she was not laid after all. Her usual digging place We put some flower pots with only soil in the side of room in the balcony and damped them sprinkling water, and put pots with plants around them to hide herself. She liked this pot in this day. I didn't understand why, because it seemed to be too shallow and dry for her laying. We can smell various scent of mint, apple geranium, oregano and so on, from the balcony by the place where she is. We can know her place by scent of wind.
July 30 (Sat.)	She dug the pot that she was favorite the before day and laid eggs there in the evening. She seems to be still interested in that pot. she has been repeating to dig and stop since daytime. I went to balcony to see her because she was silent about 7 PM. Then I found a lot of eggs beteen pots. I gleaned and counted them. So there were as many as 11 eggs. Then she came back to the room after she spent even two and a half hour in returning soil. It was the 15th day from the last her egg laying. She had laid 17 eggs in total up to now this year. <Extra> I found an egg like this ! I found also an immature egg like this when I was cleaning the balcony the next day. Left, regular one is 4cm, and right, smalr one is 1.2cm in length. Another unique egg that kamemi laid last year. Its shape looks like a jellybean.

The 3rd time
August 8(Mon.)	Only about a week after the last her eggs laying. Late at night, Kamemi who was sleeping quietly had gone out from her cage suddenly with the loud sound and began to run in the house. I felt the sign of her following eggs laying. So I prepared our usual turtle avoiding board in the house immediately. But she has settled down quietly again after she made noise for about 2 days. The actions for her eggs laying always start momentarily. In addition, they often start at dawn or midnigh.
August 17(Wed.)	Early morning of this day, She was sleeping began to make loud sound and went out from her cage suddenly. This time indeed... But she has good appetite as usual. She always hardly falls off her appetite even before laying eggs. Is it because she is big and she has space in her for food even when she has a lot of eggs? Several days later when she began to scratch on the carpet, I prepared the flower pots in the balcony and I removed the turtle avoiding board ofthe windows for her so that I might give her time to freely go out to the balcony everyday. As soon as the balcony is freely opened for her, she ran there and threw her head in the pots. But she she had no sign that tried to dig soil yet. What a dirty face it is! She always comes into the room with soil like this after she explores the balcony for a while. Kumosuke at Kamemi's laying eggs time "I live quietly and peacefully not to be found by her. I was sunbathing in the balcony while she was making noise in the room. Ah I was very surprised ! Kamemi has knocked me against the glass. with loud sound.
August 27(Sat.)	It was a little different from usual days, this day. Because she went to the pot at once after she went out to the balcony. Then she has thrusting her face into four pots prepared for egg laying in order. And she began to dig in the smallest pot like that she can't move in it seriously after she selected this pot. So I expected that she might lay egg today indeed, But she stopped digging after she dug about 30 minutes. She was a little different from usual days, this day. Because she went to the pot at once after she went out to the balcony. Then she has thrusting her face into four pots prepared for egg laying in order. And she began to dig in the smallest pot like that she can't move in it seriously after she selected this pot. So I expected that she might lay egg today indeed, But she stopped digging after she dug about 30 minutes. After then she has settled down and the sign of her egg laying has completely lost. .She spends in water and eat like a horse everyday. She sleeps, eats and rages about to press persons for food. I don't know if she will still lay eggs this year.
November 1(Tues.)	It's season when we begin to be anxious about how is our turtles made to pass the coming winter. But... I found an egg beside Kamemi who was sleeping with the towel. It's egg laying out of season. She laid 17 + 1, 18 eggs in the end this year.