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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Yorkshire Girl on May 15, 2019, 06:22:23 PM
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Where to start...according to the vet we have two girls but I wasn't sure has there skirts are different and I caught one mating the other a year or two ago. Well on Monday the girlie started acting strangely using her back legs to dig - usually use front - well this evening hubby noticed an egg on the surface of their outdoor run. I googled tortoise eggs, looked at images and low and behold we have ourselves a tortoise egg & there could be more buried beneath. Found lots of facts out that they can store sperm and can take upto 4 years to lay her eggs & she can lay only 1!! We are going to carefully bring egg/s (there could be more under the soil) in and keep them warm while we decide what to do - scary
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Awwwww little baby tortoises?haha your vet as good as some gp's then?😆
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Is there any way the vet can scan the eggs to see if they are fertile? Years ago one of mine laid an egg but it never hatched despite keeping it at the right temperature. My dad said then that tortoises often lay eggs even without a mate. I was so disappointed.
Taz x
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Jaypo eh yes ;D ;D but to give him his due it's very hard to sex a tortoise!!
Taz we moved the one egg we saw, I then started very carefully digging around and found another 4. They are now inside in sand under the heat lamp with water to create some humidity as can't do much else at mo. Just can't face not trying to hatch them, at least if anything happens we have tried.
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I just don't want you to spend four months like we did only to find out that captive tortoises often lay eggs without mating. We had two females. They often 'humped' each other ;D
Taz x
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Why not let Mummy hatch them :-\ they've been doing it for millions of years .........
You would need 2 each with some salad ;-). I babysat 3 many years ago, the size of 50p pieces. Registered etc.. They didn't do much except eat a little bit of green, I had to bath them every morning so that they could drink.
Bet there aren't any cards 'Congratualtions on your new tortoise arrivals' ;D
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Taz the thing is they have definitely been mating, only problem is getting them to vets as they can't be juggled around.
It's funny how different reptiles/birds lay eggs and hatch them tortoises & turtles never see their young just lay their eggs and leave them. Yet birds sit on nest & bring up their young!
No CKLD ;D
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;D. people hatch poultry too ......... incubators that have to be kept at a specific humidity because apparently quail in particular are not good parents :-\ .
'Photos? Names ?
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How they doing Yorkie?
Any news on the tortoises..?
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My OH had a tortoise when he was just a small lad.
They let it roam around the living room, everyday, every night.
It slept in his dads old slipper. :-\.
Then one day, they came in and couldn't wake it up.
They thought it was dead, which, in fairness, it could've been, but I said, it could've been hibernating. Which they didn't know they did.
They buried it. .....so, so sad. We'll never know. :'(
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A neighbour had a tortoise years ago - it roamed and as Autumn arrived it would dig itself into the ground and appear the next March/April ...... it was 34 the last I heard ::) and there is one in our Estate that wanders - it went 50 yards recently but we don't know how long that took it ...... it crossed the road too :o
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It crossed the road and survived - blimey.
Tortoises aren't as slow as people think, ours can really go when they want to!!
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How R the eggs?
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We think they are unfertilised, but waiting the 60-90 days to be sure.
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Fried or boiled ? ;). Is Mummy tortoise bothered?
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No not at all, as even the wild they just leave them like turtles.
They are just empty shells we think.
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Shells can go into the compost ;-)
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Tortoise, 102, is guest of honour at wedding - Norfolk news
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Well that is interesting having a tortoise at your wedding! Still no news on our eggs, not long to go if they are going to hatch!
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There were 3 present - it was given to someone in 1929 so no one really knows how old it actually might be.
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I rescued one yesterday. I became aware of being watched ........ thought initially that it was one of my stone tortoises that I have round the pond but it was in the wrong part of the garden :D. It didn't withdraw when I picked it up. How it crosses the road without getting squashed :o no one knows - if it gets this far again I will keep it ;). Lots of lovely strawberry leaves here, grasses to choose from, undergrowth to hide in. :whist: ......... it has a name but obviously doesn't return when it's called ;D
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;D ;D tortoises are very good escapee artists!
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This one certainly is.
He did a poo when I handed him over :o ;D
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Have they gone to sleep yet?
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Yes, weekend before last, in their lovely new fridge ;D
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Do you poke them occasionally :-\
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yes, just touch their legs does the trick!
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Makes them flinch ......... a bit like me if someone wakes me ;D
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Why :-\
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Don't eat shell fish then ;D
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Because we had to take the pond pump to the shop I was able to indulge my interest in reptiles. OH those bearded dragon young 'unss, so nosey: all standing against the glass watching us ;D - about 2" long and all different colours. The Hermans tortoises were having a bath ..... the snakes were waiting to be fed, the gekos had their lettuce :D and small crickets.
I don't have room, energy nor commitment to keep dragons but OH I am so tempted ;D.
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Our son wanted to a bearded dragon to start with, until we told him you have to feed them live food, so he settled on tortoises!
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;D .......... a friend inherited a dragon ...... it sits on her shoulder whilst she is ironing!
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Aww nooooo, not live food! 🤢🤮. 🙀🙀
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Yep ;D ...........
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;D ;D oh love it!
Yes JD, I had to feed a friends dragon once and one of the crickets didn't make it into the vivarium ;D
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🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀 noooooo......I'd be itching for days....knowing my luck it'd find its way down my knickers! 🙀🙀😳😳😳😳
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Well at least it was in their house not mine!! I did try to find it, without much luck I hasten to add!!
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Oh Christ. I'd have a breakdown..😭 imagine it was in your handbag, and it jumped out at the checkout at the supermarket....🙀😂🤣
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;D ;D oh my I would be in hysterics
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I'd be crying! 😭😭. 😆
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I'd be screaming like a banshee 😫😫
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;D ......... you won't survive the Bomb then :D - I fed our birds live meal worms they don't seem to mind.
This morning a cricket escaped but I couldn't catch it and the assistant told me they have 100s hopping around. Good if one of the reptiles gets out in the night, it won't go hungry ;-)
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A tortoise sanctuary has said it has received hundreds of phone calls from owners concerned local lockdowns will affect their pets' hibernation.
Each winter about 200 tortoises hibernate at The International Tortoise Association's temperature-controlled facility in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.
But the charity said about a third of its 500 members live in areas facing restrictions, so were unable to travel. "These are animals that are in danger," a volunteer said.
I would consider that this organisation are essential so owners should be able to deliver their reptiles to Sully.
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I heard about this, I completely agree CKLD, it's a much needed service.
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The people with the tortoise that drops by occasionally to R garden are moving. So I looked on their house sale details, well no wonder he wanders!!! their garden has nothing but grass. No shrubbery, nowt of interest :'( :-\ ...... I'm half hoping that they will leave him behind. With me ;D but we would never find him in here ............ it's a wild garden. If hedgehogs can get in, he could wander further :o
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Have yours taken themselves to bed yet?
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R they slow going to sleep this year?
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Sadly the tortoise didn't like the move :-\
Apparently there are many for rehoming ........ am I tempted!
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Do you want to adopt a tortoise?
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I have fads: last week it was ferrets ;D. 2night, tortoises ::)
Best keep to rehoming plants on the 'for sale' shelving.
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Does any1 know how to sex an adult snake ?
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Not had to do that lately clkd ;D
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:rofl: there's always one aint there :lol:
what happened to Yorkshire Girl :-\
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Does any1 know how to sex an adult snake ?
Very carefully ;D
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;D ;D
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:lol:
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;D ;D Taz.
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I asked the question because I thought that the way to sex a snake is by probing under the tail end. Reports saying these dumped boas are male/female puzzled me ...... ::)