Grrlywhirl
New Member
Hi All,
First post here, we’ve had 4 baby-ish redfoots for the last year or more and we’ve kept them in the standard wood “tortoise table” that you can buy when outside and when inside we keep them in a rabbit hutch.
We live in the Tampa, FL area so they could easily be kept outside almost all days of the year but we live on conservation where lots of predators lie behind our fence, we’ve even had to shoo away sand hill cranes from poking at the tortoise house.
I’d like to build an enclosure that has the following functions:
-Can keep our 4 giant dogs away from them, so either a roofed structure or a structure that is raised from the ground
-We have the option of placing it outside or inside a screened in pool area
-I would like to be able to grow food sources inside the enclosure
-I’ve noticed that in the four foot long boxes they haven’t been exploring too much and basically just lie under their hides all day, I’d like to see them walking around in a bigger space
Anyone have any ideas? I’m pretty handy and like building anything wood related so store bought or homemade doesn’t matter to me. I just know what would happen if the dogs got in so it has to be dog proof. I was thinking about maybe even buying them a greenhouse and taking off the roof to allow more airflow so it doesn’t get too hot in the summer. Willing to spend some decent money too.
All and any ideas are appreciated, pics would be great.
Thanks, Amy
First post here, we’ve had 4 baby-ish redfoots for the last year or more and we’ve kept them in the standard wood “tortoise table” that you can buy when outside and when inside we keep them in a rabbit hutch.
We live in the Tampa, FL area so they could easily be kept outside almost all days of the year but we live on conservation where lots of predators lie behind our fence, we’ve even had to shoo away sand hill cranes from poking at the tortoise house.
I’d like to build an enclosure that has the following functions:
-Can keep our 4 giant dogs away from them, so either a roofed structure or a structure that is raised from the ground
-We have the option of placing it outside or inside a screened in pool area
-I would like to be able to grow food sources inside the enclosure
-I’ve noticed that in the four foot long boxes they haven’t been exploring too much and basically just lie under their hides all day, I’d like to see them walking around in a bigger space
Anyone have any ideas? I’m pretty handy and like building anything wood related so store bought or homemade doesn’t matter to me. I just know what would happen if the dogs got in so it has to be dog proof. I was thinking about maybe even buying them a greenhouse and taking off the roof to allow more airflow so it doesn’t get too hot in the summer. Willing to spend some decent money too.
All and any ideas are appreciated, pics would be great.
Thanks, Amy