it can drop off after a few minutes, and it can drop off after a few days, sooner or later it will drop off by it self, and you MUSTN'T treat the wound after it
"It's an egg tooth", the newly hatched baby turtle uses it to break through it's egg shell. The tooth will soon drop off.
They will give an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, an egg for an egg.
sand+egg= turtle
turtle=egg+sand
Yes turtle egg need the sand to hatch.
The shell of the egg is made of the same stuff as the inside layer of a tooth.
Hatchling turtles break out of their eggs by the use of an egg tooth. The egg tooth is a very sharp, small, white tooth on the tip of the turtles beak. It is the only tooth that the turtle will ever have. The baby will break a hole though the tough egg wall and then rest for a bit. Soon the baby will be back at the job and will use the egg tooth to cut though the egg enough to crawl out. Or he might break open the egg and then choose to sit in his egg for a couple days before finally coming out. Once the baby has broken through the egg wall the egg tooth pops off.
Usually, a small dent in a turtle egg is okay but a large dent or a sunken in egg could mean that the egg has collapsed. For more information, I recommend going to the Turtle Tails website link in the related links; it gives a complete guide on how to care for turtle eggs and what it means if a turtle egg looks a certain way. It would be best to go on that site. Hope your egg is okay!
It helps it to get out of the egg when it is hatching. It is not a tooth in the proper sense and in most cases it is lost after hatching.
A baby chick typically loses its egg tooth within the first few days after hatching. The egg tooth is used to break through the shell during the hatching process, and once the chick is out of the egg, it is no longer needed.
the egg tooth it takes 21 days
It's bad if the turtle is still in it.