Orv, I also wonder if his past diet has led to a fragile shell. The rescue lady said not to feed him anything, as he has the run of my yard with grass, weeds, plumbago, rose and hibiscus. I don't see him eating much, though. Walking around a couple hours a day, then mostly in his burrow or...
I recently adopted my first Calif Desert Tortoise. When pulling him out from under a bush I could only reach a rear corner of his shell, and when I pulled on that corner a piece of the shell chipped off. On inspecting it, I noticed that there was also an old chip on the other side. Are the...