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Originally Posted by vikki
Jonathan - just out of interest you said you hibernate some of your tortoises - do you always hibernate the same ones every year and keep the same ones up or do you have some sort of rota?  |
Vikki what I do is maybe a bit bonkers. I consider each tortoise individually and take the weight into account - I'm a lot more likely to hibernate a specific tortoise if it's gained a lot in the summer months.
I'm also likely to hibernate males partly because they are more active than the females (and I suspect they feel cooped up indoors) and partly because they place more demands on our indoor space. The males that I have must have their own individual space, but the girls are happy enough together.
Also I probably wouldn't hibernate either of the oldest two, and that is simply because I've had them the longest. But that is the 'risk' mentality in action and makes no objective sense at all!