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  1. BekahBear

    What gender? ...Follow up

    These guys live outside full time. There are 3 of them. Their pen is just under an acre in size. It has been a couple years since I have asked about the gender of them. They were all suspected female last time I posted but I was told it was still a little early to say 100%. Since it has been a...
  2. BekahBear

    Mazuri original formula vs LS formula

    I have 3 Sulcata tortoises. all 3 are about 13" straight carapace length. right now their diet consists mostly of free choice alfalfa hay and Bermuda grass hay. they also get prickly pear cactus pads every once in a while. we just built a new house and moved. I eventually plan on planting some...
  3. BekahBear

    are they old enough to know the gender yet?

    I have posted about these guys a few times now over the years. the last time I asked was august of last year. they have grown a couple inches since then. I got them as yearlings. I was told they were born in July of 2011. my question is...are they big and old enough to tell if they are boys or...
  4. BekahBear

    Boy or girl?

    I just got this Sulcata the other day from someone who couldn't keep it anymore. It was getting too big for their enclosure and they don't live somewhere where it can live outside. I'm wondering if it's a boy or a girl. I never have been good at sexing them. I would have to measure to know for...
  5. BekahBear

    boys or girls?

    i posted a thread back in 2012 asking what gender they were even though i knew they were still too small to tell. now that they are a bit older and bigger i am curious if you can tell what gender they are yet. i labeled the pictures to make it easier to tell them apart. sorry the pic quality...
  6. BekahBear

    guess the gender

    i know that they aren't old/big enough yet to be able to really know gender but i am curious what peoples guesses are at this point. i plan on updating with more pictures in several months to see what people think then, and continue to update this thread every now and then until they actually...
  7. BekahBear

    Update & pics of my 2 little guys

    so i rescued these guys towards the end of June from someone who didn’t properly care for them and couldn’t keep them anymore. from the information i was given, their 1 year b-day was July 17. I have named them Kokopelli and Kachina i have done a lot of research since i got them and...
  8. BekahBear

    what kinds of cacti are edible?

    i have been trying to research the answer to my question but havent had much luck. when it comes to all of the different types of cactus, which ones are edible for a sulcata tortoise? i live in the sonoran desert near Tucson AZ so we have tons of types of cactus here. i would burn or cut off the...
  9. BekahBear

    what are these Arizona desert plants?

    i live in the desert near Tucson Arizona. i have been searching thorugh our 5 acres for weeds and/or grasses to offer my new Sulcatas but haven't had much luck. it has been extremely dry here this year so almost everything is dead. basically all we have on the property is cactus, creosote...
  10. BekahBear

    Newbie from AZ

    My name is Bekah and i live in the middle of nowhere in the southern Arizona desert. i love animals big and small. for non-reptiles we have several large dogs (we breed and train them for Search And Rescue work) and a Min Pin that thinks she is bigger than all of them. we have horses, a cat...
  11. BekahBear

    Help with 2 new Sulcatas

    i just picked up 2 sulcatas today from someone that "couldnt care for them anymore" and they dont seem to be in perfect health. i was told they will be 1 year old on 7-17-12. they seem small for 1 year old to me...but i dont have any previous experience with sulcatas so i dont know. here is...
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