Forum: Tortoise Health and Vets
02-04-2012, 09:18 PM
|
Replies: 12
Views: 796
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
28-03-2012, 09:03 PM
|
Replies: 9
Views: 2,079
They all bat for all teams usually though in my...
They all bat for all teams usually though in my experience! I have two Hermann males who live together happily (very happily!) and could only service female tortoises when they were in together with...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
28-03-2012, 06:59 PM
|
Replies: 9
Views: 2,079
Is there any more info you can give me? I'm...
Is there any more info you can give me? I'm intrigued-but also by the fact that the 4 juveniles seem to be having some signs of interest in each other (and the definite male, kept separately) but...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
26-03-2012, 09:13 PM
|
Replies: 25
Views: 3,648
Yes, mine remember from year to year. Amazing...
Yes, mine remember from year to year. Amazing isnt it. I even had a small enclosed hutch and run for juvenile Horsfields in case the adults got too much-I cut a 'tortoise flap' in the wire and...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
26-03-2012, 09:10 PM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 2,775
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
26-03-2012, 09:04 PM
|
Replies: 2
Views: 505
I err on the side of caution too but the...
I err on the side of caution too but the specialist vet didnt think that two out of the three needed treating-and I think he was right as one is totally better, the other is getting there (the...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
26-03-2012, 08:31 PM
|
Replies: 9
Views: 2,079
Really? Wow that's fascinating! Because it was...
Really? Wow that's fascinating! Because it was 'sexed' by people I would rely as being female and the other signs, like a flat base (name of base of shell has escaped me), the way the shell folds...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 10:32 PM
|
Replies: 9
Views: 2,079
Asexual male horsfield!!
I rehomed the most peculiar looking 'viv'd Horsfield about 4 years ago. SHE became he when we realised he had been kept in a viv with leapords who had bitten off his tail. He must be between 8-12...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 10:22 PM
|
Replies: 2
Views: 505
Horsfields strange diet
Hi, three of my juvenile HFs woke up unwell (one with eye infection, possibly RNS, two 'clicking' but not enough to be treated) which is something I've not experienced before. The really poorly one...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 10:11 PM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 2,775
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 09:54 PM
|
Replies: 19
Views: 941
I've been thankful to have an old viv for a...
I've been thankful to have an old viv for a sickly tortoise (but with most of the back taken off) but agree-yes, go straight to table-they hate change-I have my recently woken juveniles and adults in...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 04:35 PM
|
Replies: 12
Views: 1,021
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 04:33 PM
|
Replies: 15
Views: 2,403
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 04:21 PM
|
Replies: 28
Views: 2,395
Did you say the two males ever lived on therir...
Did you say the two males ever lived on therir own together? Mine were introduced to mate with the girls they used to live with, but they didnt have a clue-the only way they could perform was to have...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 04:13 PM
|
Replies: 3
Views: 3,568
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 04:11 PM
|
Replies: 25
Views: 3,648
I think its mostly to do with food and body...
I think its mostly to do with food and body clocks (my htachlings bath themselves on a staurday if I forget to alter their timeswitch, and even if they do I think they get up at the same time and are...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 03:55 PM
|
Replies: 3
Views: 713
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-03-2012, 03:52 PM
|
Replies: 10
Views: 1,007
Yes all mine out-from 8 months to ?? years but...
Yes all mine out-from 8 months to ?? years but only when the sun is on their runs. One of my adult Hermanns only woke on monday night, ate tuesday am and is out with his brother in the sunshine now....
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
10-10-2011, 08:40 PM
|
Replies: 26
Views: 1,479
Definitely a horsfield (or Pukka pie as my mum...
Definitely a horsfield (or Pukka pie as my mum calls them!). Maybe it has been in your garage for a while and thought the summer had come-all my horsfields resurrected last week! Well, its not like...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
10-10-2011, 08:36 PM
|
Replies: 13
Views: 912
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
09-10-2011, 08:12 PM
|
Replies: 26
Views: 1,479
Horsfields are right escapologists-they love to...
Horsfields are right escapologists-they love to climb and are even better diggers-was yours very dirty when you found it (mine usually are disguised as balls of soil!)? Cos if s/he was dirty could...
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
09-10-2011, 04:35 PM
|
Replies: 13
Views: 912
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
08-10-2011, 10:32 PM
|
Replies: 13
Views: 912
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
08-10-2011, 10:18 PM
|
Replies: 10
Views: 1,507
|
Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
08-10-2011, 10:14 PM
|
Replies: 22
Views: 4,266
I went to Tunisia in 2001 before I was really...
I went to Tunisia in 2001 before I was really into tortoises again but stayed in Sousse and the Medina Port El Kantaoui and there were wild tortoises wandering everywhere-we would just walk past them...
|