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Originally Posted by egyptiandan64
This comes from the Hailey Calculator, which I feel is much more accurate as they only used wild animal's weights and did not include any captive animals as the Jackson Ratio does. His calculator takes into consideration the difference between males and females and works for 3 different species (all 3 species data is in the calculator), Spur-thighs, Hermanns and Marginated. I feel it is a much better guide as to what your tortoise should be weighing as compared to a wild tortoise of the same size.
Here is the website http://www.ahailey.f9.co.uk/menu.htm
Danny |
Thank you. I haven't seen that one before and I agree it looks much better. Fortunately Joe is in the normal range on both despite a lack of weight gain this year.