The Heat is On: Desert Tortoises & Survival (Part 1 of 4)

[ZaMuMx]

thats sad... lets help maintain those beautiful tortoises

[ZenGuy12]

i might be wrong, but isnt it a bad idea to x ray the tortoises? give them and the eggs cancer

[9DragonMaster]

thats why you see the eggs have little X's on them!!!

[9DragonMaster]

they forgot to say you can't turn the egg from its original position!!!! if you flip the egg, the turtle can die!!!! I'm gonna go excavate our turtles dens, even though my female isn't of proper mating age??? i think the females have to be 10 or so?

[9DragonMaster]

i have a desert tortoise in california, socal, i have 1 male 1 female, the females prolly too young to mate, the male is ready.

[mgwilliams1000]

@9DragonMaster I also have one. A very aged male I found walking down a sidewalk right in the middle of my town here in the Central Valley. He is now registered, and hibernating in the crawlspace below my house. I worked as a volunteer many years ago in the Navy at Ridgecrest with the BLM with these magnificent creatures. He is old and cantankerous as your granddad would be. I can't wait for him to come out in spring, he is a joy to watch.

[9DragonMaster]

@mgwilliams1000 WATCH THEM IN SLIGHTLY FAST FORWARD, THEY LOOK LIKE GODZILLA! Maybe I'll do a vid, I have a funny vid of a baby girl tortoise trying to bite a cats ear that was sniffing the tortoises plate of food. =))) My larger male has created some pretty amazing burrows, I'll try to get a video of the hole and birm he made to battle water flow I'm guessing. We all love em

[Akkkico]

welcome to Earth:)

[440876]

yay