10-06-2007, 10:54 AM | #1 |
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How to measure SCL?
How am i supposed to measure my tortoise?
At what age does a horsfield stop growing (i pressume they do stop)and once they have stopped should their weight stay constant. thanks Rach
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10-06-2007, 10:59 AM | #2 |
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Heres a measuring guide I did a while back
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Horsfields are not to be measured against the Jackson ratio, as this is for med torts,
hermans ibera and graecas. I do know someone on TF did put in some horsfield measurements from lots of different horsfield keepers, and made a ratio for a guide.
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There's a guide called the McIntyre Ratio for Horsfields on the Tortoisefriends forum in the files section (this is useful, but I think it was drawn up on the basis of only 30 or 40 sets of statistics from members). There is also the guide that the RussianTortoise people in the States use: it's - in centimetres - (scl length x height x width) x .57 = weight in grams. I think all these things - Jackson Ratio included - are just meant to be rough guides though, not to be followed to the letter.
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Thanks for the help.will give it a go.
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i have just measured my leopard using the guide above. how do i no if its a good size or not and what about weight? is there a healthy average weight ?
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[QUOTE=bernards mom;92705]i have just measured my leopard using the guide above. how do i no if its a good size or not and what about weight? is there a healthy average weight
hi if you post the scl and weight i can tell if i have records of one of mine at that size.they have daily access outdoors throughout the year from about 150mm and certainly appear healthy and active. terry
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Haha! My torts are little rascals, they don't let me push them til their heads are in their shells, they fight really hard with their legs!!! I had to buy a caliper guage to measure mine, so much easier!!!!!
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ok which is the carpace i get confused? so where abouts do i class as the end of carpace as my leos a boy and part of it goes into a v shape? x
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If you put the tort head first against the skirting board (not upside down or owt) or wall or anything vertical it will put it's head inside it's shell, then at the other end put a block of wood or something similar up against it's rear end, mark to the inside of the block of wood, take the wood and tort out the way and measure the distance from the skirting board to the mark
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