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View Poll Results: Do you hibernate your Mediterranean torts | |||
Yes | 41 | 39.05% | |
No | 28 | 26.67% | |
I will when they're older / I am more confidant | 26 | 24.76% | |
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13-10-2010, 03:59 PM | #1 |
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Do You Hibernate Your Med Torts
Simples, I'm not after a mass hibernation debate, I am interested in whether you hibernate your Mediterranean Tortoises or not
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13-10-2010, 04:01 PM | #2 |
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No I do not hibernate Lily, I overwinter him. He is Med Spur (Ibera), Bind. I have provided my reasons in other threads debating this. xx
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I have never hibernated Herbie but we only had him 2 years before he went missing so the years he spent in the garden he obviously hibernated. I wont be hibernating him this year as I don't know how he will do after so long in the wild. Having said that I wont hibernate him in the future as I don't feel confident enough.
I also have a hatchling of 4 months who I don't intend to hibernate.
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13-10-2010, 04:23 PM | #5 |
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Keep them awake as the weather in the UK isn't usually warm enough for them to stay active, so usually its done by means of artificial heat and light.
I hibernate my tortoises, they are hermans and have been hibernated from 4 months old. I've looked in to it, and haven't found anything that shows that this isn't the best thing for them. |
13-10-2010, 04:24 PM | #6 |
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Overwintering just means not hibernating, keeping a warm, well lit up table, replicating good summer weather.
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I plan to hibernate Willow later this year....need to get his weight up a little first. All my other Meds are spending their 1st winter with me, so want to keep them up this year, but if they are healthy next year, I will hibernate.
BTW great idea Bindi I thought about starting a thread about this
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13-10-2010, 05:19 PM | #8 |
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No. Mine are overwhelmingly underwintered
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13-10-2010, 05:33 PM | #9 |
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I do like your way with words Alan.
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13-10-2010, 05:39 PM | #10 |
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mine hibernate under the lamps living life in the fast lane
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