Recent content by Paganthegoat

Ah right , thank you for that :)

Growing them fast was not my goal either just keeping them alive in the early 80`s was considered over here as an achivement, so it was some time before i actualy knew i had a problem. There was no internet and more or less no books, the only available resourse was the BCG in the UK . So its...

At first i thought you had a lot of perverts in USA , we dont get many flashers here, then it dawned on me , not people (men) but tortoises lmao ... Cant remember my first experience , but i distinctly remember my T Marginata shagging a tuft of grass, i thought "Oh" and "Gosh" and "Fancy that"...

OK OK lets go the George Bush way , anyone not speaking English we nuke um .....oh gawd am i gonna be in trouble now?

Well if thats so it makes life easier :) .........i read my info from the British Chelonia group back in the 80`s i cannot remember who wrote the article did the study etc..I have just had a quick look and i cant find the article i am refering to , when i do i will post the details as i think...

Well said Bikerchic , they do cleve together rather like the immigrants i was ranting on about here , if you want to live in another country its because you like it and its people and customs not to turn it into little brittian :) Yeah good point , tho i read a lot of books written by...

You know it does not look genuine , i say that because it looks like its sort of stuck on , however on a serious note im sure you all know if the incubation temp goes over a certain temp you get deformaties. Im still sure its not right, eyes in the wrong place, well i know it is but it should...

My first Tortoises were raised in the early 1980`s , we hadnt a clue no one had and i found i had this Pyramiding, as time went on and everyone learnt more i had read that it was too much rapid growth much the same as a puppy getting a complete high protien puppy food and then being given...

Well i am English as oposed to British , in my country we have a vast immigrant population that lived together but will not integrate with us, we are a mongrel nation , invaded by countless people over the years ans the English langague reflects this tho as you can see i cant spell it lol. I...

thank you everyone for the warm welcome , i will certainly post some pics , right now its tipping down and ive got to play mechanics mate as one of the 4x4`s is in need of attention, then of course its out on the bike , motorbike that is :) Have a good day guys and gals

Oh jolly good :) thank you , I live in the middle of nowhere about 36 miles from a city called Lincoln and about 13 miles from Boston in the county of Lincolnshire. Flat farmland all round . Quite probably my middle of nowhere cant compare to the middle of nowhere in a lot of places lol...

Um i think i made a mistake here i asked dear old Google for pages from the UK and never checked further, im in UK ..........sorry guys

Just a quick introduction, Kept and bred /raised Tortoises many years now, never been on a forum tho . These days we keep it small , I had only one pair of T Iberia , then i found a small male wandering along the road which no one ever claimed and this year i have rescued a T Marginata ...