When I first joined this forum I was asked how I keep the Yellowfoot tortoises humid enough to be healthy. I wasn't worried about humidity because I have lots of shrubs and different plants in their enclosure that I have to water every day. But they are kept inside a shed during the winter, and I don't like to get the shed wet because its wood, so that got me to thinking about their humidity in the winter time. They have a water dish inside, but its really pretty dry in there.

A couple years ago I changed out my house's window screens from the aluminum colored ones to black ones. I saved the old screens. So this morning, I took a screen which is about 1 1/2 feet by 5', and placed it over the top of their pig blanket area, supporting the screen on the wooden rails of the inside pen. Then I took an old beach towell, got it wet, wrung it out, and folded it to fit the screen, and placed it on top of the screen. Voila!! A nice moist hiding place for the Yellow foot tortoises!

Yvonne

Great idea. Keep it simple as my mentor said.

I'll have to try that out! I've been misting the mulch with a spray bottle which is time consuming for me and annoying for Lois.