Thank you Sandy. The jury is out on the bigger one then.
Yes, still plenty of growing to do and I’m keeping my eye on them but so far, no sign of naughty behaviour. They are clutch mates. An inexperienced keeper bought a few torts, popped them in together and then wasn’t prepared for eggs. She incubated three and all hatched but these two had the shells stuck to them, which she peeled off, so they have a few minor bumps and dips but otherwise are fine. The whole experience seemed to frighten her and she felt she wasn’t capable of raising them, hence the rehoming when they were yearlings and starting to grow.
I told her to separate her males but warned the females could still go on to lay fertile eggs for anything around 3 years, which she had no idea about. She had 2 males in with 3 females so quite a lot of mating going on. We also spoke about safe and humane methods to dispose of unwanted eggs.
Sad really, as she admitted she didn’t understand about humidity and supplements and her tortoises were very bumpy. Poor woman was just on a big self-guilt trip, so I was happy to take the hatchlings from her. The third had gone to a friend.
The pair of them are very sweet. I never imagined having hatchlings again so it’s been nice to watch them and I don’t mind what sex they are, although I really have hit full capacity and these are the last I’ll be able to rehome from the TPG. Nice to finish rehoming with little ones though.
