03-11-2017, 02:36 PM | #1 |
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A basket full of torts
This is how I get the torts out into the garden each morning through the summer. I have a basket for the females and the males all share one too, wrapped up in their individual towels to prevent any nipping or ramming.
It has been wonderful having a proper tort room for their time indoors. It's hard to get a photo of all the tables and the room expands back further than the door. When we moved house last year the torts were a huge priority and turning what was a dressing room into a tort room was high on hubby's to-do list for me, bless him. The room keeps the ambient temperature consistent and it's nice and cosy in the evenings for them too, so no need for extra heating or CHE's anymore. I've been meaning to take photos for well over a year. I'm already planning for next summer. Theo and Atticus will be getting new larger outdoor enclosures and I'm hoping we'll have some good weather. Here's some of them outside this year:
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03-11-2017, 07:25 PM | #2 |
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EMMY ! we need photos ! quiiiick ! resend ! CB
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03-11-2017, 08:48 PM | #3 |
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Wow what lovely pictures, I love your tort room, I'm properly jelouse you really do have a lot of beautiful torts. How many now ?
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beautiful tortoises Emma, what a little creep or two !!!! Loving the outdoor photo graphs and wow your indoor set up is fantastic - wish I could do that!! loving all the wood and colour, names.
What a lovely life they must have with you and the menagerie. CB
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I didn't realise they weren't showing up as they were when I posted. What's happened as I can see them now. Did you manage to do something to them CB or maybe it was the photohosting site?
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I hope they have a lovely life. I do my best for them. The wooden names were just fun to do - I bought the wooden letters and then painted them up myself and glued them on the tables. I still need to do the long ones.
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Wonderful tortoise room and great tortoises - lucky you!
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04-11-2017, 09:35 PM | #7 |
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Aww...thanks, Mary. I have to admit I have pinched myself a few times as I never imagined I'd have a tort room. Then again, I never imagined having 16 torts!
Hubby thought we were done at 4!
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I just love the photo of them all in the basket and the one where three of them are lined up eating - so polite! A tort room too, how exciting. It must be a full time job.
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I have their care as part of my morning routine and then I just pop by and enjoy them for the rest of the day. It's hard not to just sit and observe them as they're always so entertaining. My in-laws met the new additions yesterday when they came for lunch. Their faces were a picture when they tried guessing how many there are. It's weird as 16 is a few I admit, but I know many on here have got or had so many more. But it's a nice even number. Luckily my daughter is excellent at caring for them too so when I was unwell, she just takes over.
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So now you have lots of hercs is there going to be a breeding program next year.
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