- Joined
- May 23, 2017
- Messages
- 9
I have 3 tortoises. Two Hermann females (Billie owned 61 years and Millie, 10 years old).
My daughter was given 2 young Horsefield males (7 to 8 years old) who fought each other terribly so she gave one to her brother who keeps it in a heated vivarium inside. Boris, the one she kept, was starting to bury himself in the small garden they have outside last month so she gave him to me to hibernate him in our garage in a cardboard box. He was fast asleep so I weighed him to check he was ok to hibernate and bedded him back down in his box of straw. Our two have wooden guinea-pig hutches filled with straw to hibernate inside our garage which they use as houses in the garden in summer.
With the mild Autumn weather we have had this month, all 3 of them are awake and moving about inside their boxes. Little Boris has scratched the bottom out of his cardboard box in an attempt to escape. Horesfields do seem to like to dig more than Hermann's though as my Son's Horsefield spends about half an hour every night at bedtime trying to dig a hole in the bottom of is house. He is going to put more soil in there for him to bury in.
I just hope it turns colder soon and they go back to sleep as they seem to think it is Sping already?
My daughter was given 2 young Horsefield males (7 to 8 years old) who fought each other terribly so she gave one to her brother who keeps it in a heated vivarium inside. Boris, the one she kept, was starting to bury himself in the small garden they have outside last month so she gave him to me to hibernate him in our garage in a cardboard box. He was fast asleep so I weighed him to check he was ok to hibernate and bedded him back down in his box of straw. Our two have wooden guinea-pig hutches filled with straw to hibernate inside our garage which they use as houses in the garden in summer.
With the mild Autumn weather we have had this month, all 3 of them are awake and moving about inside their boxes. Little Boris has scratched the bottom out of his cardboard box in an attempt to escape. Horesfields do seem to like to dig more than Hermann's though as my Son's Horsefield spends about half an hour every night at bedtime trying to dig a hole in the bottom of is house. He is going to put more soil in there for him to bury in.
I just hope it turns colder soon and they go back to sleep as they seem to think it is Sping already?