So I got a call from the vet today and the blood results confirm their suspicions that Es has pre ovulatory follicular stasis and needs to have an ovariectomy.
Es has zero clinical symptoms, other than the fact she thinks she has eggs to lay and keeps digging nests, but I saw the follicles...
So this happened yesterday.
She’s never mated, never even met another tortoise, although I’m aware this doesn’t negate egg laying, still I was bemused nonetheless to find her digging what I assume to be a nest.
Anyway, I left her to it. When I returned a while later she’d left the hole (it...
I keeping hearing adjectives such as 'experienced' 'adept' and 'seasoned' to describe some tortoise keepers here on the forum.
Exactly what constitutes an experienced keeper, in your opinion, and why?
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Esmeralda enjoying the last of the warm summer evenings. Haven't took many pictures of her this year.
She isn't looking forward to winter!
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It kinda looked like it had melted and then cooled into a little blob on the end. I poked at the blob and it broke off. It's about 3 months old. What the hell?
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Okay, so I am looking after my boyfriend's sister's tortoise, Michelangelo, for this next week. She just dropped him off and jeez, this tortoise is mental.
I don't know anything about Hermanns, those of you who know me, know I have lovely, calm, serene adult leopard. This tortoise is tiny and...
So, I've finally become an adult and bought my own house and after a few stressful weeks I’m all moved in and it is perfect!
Slight problem on moving day being Esmeralda’s indoor enclosure wouldn't go up the stairs, (why we imagined it would I don’t know) so after 20 minutes of three big men...
So I've just bought a house (feeling extremely grown up) and I have already planned my tortoise's new outdoor pen, and I'm already growing plants for the move.
Then, I thought, it's a new build and the turf will be brand new. My tortoise, being outside, eats a lot of grass on the lawn in my...
So, Esmeralda had her first ever trip to the vet yesterday. I send her poo annually to them, but I decided to take her in this time, for a little tortoise MOT.
Well, she does NOT like the vets.
The first thing she did was pee all over the vet, who then decided she wanted to open Ezzie's mouth...
Hello TFO!
It's been an absolute age since I last graced the forum and all sorts have changed! Looks good :)
So summer has arrived in the UK, (finally) which means Esmeralda gets giddy about constant outside playtime (yay) and it's also prompted a question I hope some knowledgable person may be...
A friend of mine has just had his first novel (King Crow) published by Blue Moose books and when I ordered my copy I came across this publication, (Gardening with Tortoises) one of their first by author P.D Apsy. It is a fantastic book comprised of letters about 'the pains and pleasures of...