It's hard to find him in amongst the group. He's the one just to the left of the orange one on the right of the group. In the second picture I've moved him to the front. He has a bit of something on his eye. They're all doing very nicely. They all eat and are very tame compared to the leopard babies I raise. When I open the door to clean off the food tile they all come over to my hand and get in the way. When I open the door to the leopard babies they all head for the hills and hide:
I just love desert tortoise babies.
How many do you have in total?
Not really. I've been considering getting out of the rescue business, but there's no one here to hand the baton to. Most rescues are found homes within a couple weeks, but I keep the babies for a year before I find homes for them. This year winter came around too soon, but I'm sure I can place those yearlings in the Spring.
I understand as those are real concerns of mine. I've thought about getting into the rescue business here, but realistically I don't think it would be easy to find good homes them. I could be wrong. I think the closet rescue is in Ohio the last time I checked. I'll have to do more research on my state.
Oh wow. That's so sad. I didn't realize half of these issues until I got on this forum. I do hope someone will take the reigns from you soon, so you can retire. If you are able to quit the rescue will you still be breeding leopards with Will?
Oh yes. I'll still have my own collection of tortoises. I have breeding colonies of Russians, RF and YF, as well as the two types of leopards. I have a pair of Manouria emys emys that I'm getting eggs from, but so far none have hatched. I'm not having much luck with the RF, YF and russians. I was able to hatch a couple russians the very first clutch I discovered, many years ago, and I hatched the first clutch of YF many years ago. The RF are just starting to breed.
Do these problems occur a lot?
