I am the mother of seven homeschooled children. We live on a 14 acre farm in beautiful coastal VA and have kept many different animals including: goats, horses, cows, all sorts of poultry, dogs, cats, various rodents (ferrets, guinea pigs, etc), lizards, etc, etc, etc. I developed a love for turtles and tortoises when I was a very young girl. I have been raising turtles for years, but the tortoises are fairly new to me. I fell in love with the sulcata species. We recently took in a 3 month old sulcata which we acquired from a soldier who had to give it up due to deployment. He had built a fairly nice tortoise table for it which we are enjoying. Our family is looking forward to watching it grow. We also have a marginated yearling and three approx 8 year old hermann's. I've been reading through the posts on the forum and gathering from everyone's experience and wisdom. ~Wendy