Hibernation help please! don't know what to do!

[hef]

Hi All,

Ok, she's a five old Horsfield hibernating for the first time. We've moved and the climate here is definitely damper in the winter, she's double-boxed in layers of dried leaves and dried soil in an out-house where my brother-in-law's tortoises are, but they're Hermans and more used to the climate. The temperature was around 8 in the daytime, lower at night, but now it's dropping to 5ish.

She's been down for a week and isn't frantic but is coming up above the soil in the daytime before burrowing at night. I'm worried that she isn't hibernating properly and will use up all her energy. She was well bathed and I tapered her food down to nothing two weeks before she went down.

Is this normal? At what point should I just take her out of there and over-winter her? Bit nervous.... hef x