Archie010
New Member
Hi all,
Yesterday I got my Hermann up from hibernation which he’d been put into November last year, everything was fine, no signs of urination or anything, however I swear I heard him stirring sometimes when in the shed.
Yesterday I got him out, gave him a soak and I was expecting him to be extremely lethargic and gummed up, but he was absolutely wide awake, put him to warm up in his heat lamp, and he started running around and eating his food like nothing happened! I really don’t think there was much hibernating going on, at best a light doze… did I hibernate him too young? He’s 5 years old
Maybe I got him up after he’d been awake for a bit? We had two weeks of lovely weather in the UK and it’s been relatively warm (13-14 degrees) he’s been hibernating since November and I read 3 months was the ideal period of hibernation.
Just need some advice for next year really, thank you guys!
Yesterday I got my Hermann up from hibernation which he’d been put into November last year, everything was fine, no signs of urination or anything, however I swear I heard him stirring sometimes when in the shed.
Yesterday I got him out, gave him a soak and I was expecting him to be extremely lethargic and gummed up, but he was absolutely wide awake, put him to warm up in his heat lamp, and he started running around and eating his food like nothing happened! I really don’t think there was much hibernating going on, at best a light doze… did I hibernate him too young? He’s 5 years old
Maybe I got him up after he’d been awake for a bit? We had two weeks of lovely weather in the UK and it’s been relatively warm (13-14 degrees) he’s been hibernating since November and I read 3 months was the ideal period of hibernation.
Just need some advice for next year really, thank you guys!