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Anthony Darby

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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #60 on: May 26, 2010, 02:45:25 PM »
I have two female boettgeri and one male hermanni (grand parents from Mallorca). Thankfully two subspecies don't seem to want to breed together. I have been offered a male of one and a female of the other but not sure if breeding these fits in with my plans?
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #61 on: May 26, 2010, 04:00:28 PM »
anthony, all the testudo species can hybrid each other, that´s the problematic...you must seperate the hermanni, and boettgeri...
female breed at the eight year.....
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #62 on: May 26, 2010, 10:59:47 PM »
I'll consult my friend Bob. Here's a pic of Pebl (female hermanni boettgeri) and Rocky (male h. hermanni), and a male Goliath beetle thrown in for good measure.
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #63 on: May 26, 2010, 11:04:07 PM »
anthony, fantastic, exspecially the goliath  :D
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #64 on: May 26, 2010, 11:16:04 PM »
Anthony that is one scary beetle :o

Every morning I have the same deer in my pony paddock. I think he has got used to me as he just stands and looks at me.
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #65 on: May 27, 2010, 07:44:38 AM »
I'll consult my friend Bob. Here's a pic of Pebl (female hermanni boettgeri) and Rocky (male h. hermanni), and a male Goliath beetle thrown in for good measure.

Anthony, you put a smile on my face   :D   with your two tortoise this morning.... what great action shots! Their shells have lovely clear markings and Bob too looks really smart - did he give sound advice?   8)
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #66 on: May 27, 2010, 07:47:35 AM »
Anthony that is one scary beetle :o

Every morning I have the same deer in my pony paddock. I think he has got used to me as he just stands and looks at me.
Angie :)

The moment when you look eye to eye is wonderful isn't it Angie  8)  I love deer of all sorts although I know they can be a nuisance with trees and plants - does anyone hound us for what we eat  :P :-\
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #67 on: May 27, 2010, 10:24:23 AM »
- does anyone hound us for what we eat  :P :-\

 My doctor and Luit van Delft hound me for what I eat, Robin....... :P
Though they say it's for my own good  :-[
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #68 on: May 27, 2010, 11:30:14 AM »
- does anyone hound us for what we eat  :P :-\

 My doctor and Luit van Delft hound me for what I eat, Robin....... :P
Though they say it's for my own good  :-[
;D ;D ;D
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #69 on: May 27, 2010, 01:11:12 PM »
- does anyone hound us for what we eat  :P :-\

 My doctor and Luit van Delft hound me for what I eat, Robin....... :P
Though they say it's for my own good  :-[

My words still hound you Maggi ? 
In that case it should be: My doctor Luit van Delft......  ;D ;D ;D :-*
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #70 on: May 27, 2010, 01:25:23 PM »


My words still hound you Maggi ? 
In that case it should be: My doctor Luit van Delft......  ;D ;D ;D :-*

Oh, yes, Luit..... and your little reminders.......


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I like the colour of the Cornus 'Sweetwater' too.... like crushed raspberrie s in cream  ;)

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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #71 on: May 27, 2010, 01:31:32 PM »
Robin, I have a pine wood two feet from my back door there are deer there all the time but since I no longer have my shetland ponies that deer has took over the pony paddock.
We have been here for 16years and at no time have I had a deer in my garden, but we are in the process of doing a vegtable garden so maybe it might be different next year.
I do love watching them and also there babies.
Angie :)
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #72 on: May 27, 2010, 01:32:50 PM »
Anthony do you let your tortoises hibernate?
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #73 on: May 27, 2010, 02:21:39 PM »
Hibernation should be compulsory for ALL European tortoises, even hatchlings, even if it is only for a couple of months. Mine have always been hibernated. This is what happens in nature and I would suggest anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. This year, due to the cold, I placed their box full of shredded newspaper on a heat mat, which was connected to a thermostat, in a large orchid cabinet and set to 4oC. This was in the garage. The temperature never got as high as 10oC. A reptile incubator, which works to raise or lower temperature dependent on whether you are incubating or hibernating and set to 4oC, would be the ideal. In the past I have used a cardboard box inside a shredded paper-lined polystyrene tropical fish box on the floor of the greenhouse which was set to 4oC, but this year I set the GH on a frost stat. They were hibernated from the end of November to April, then I raised the temperature and switched the light on and kept them fed and watered inside until they were moved to their outside area in May.
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #74 on: May 27, 2010, 10:18:53 PM »
 They were hibernated from the end of November to April, then I raised the temperature and switched the light on and kept them fed and watered inside until they were moved to their outside area in May.
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Wish I was a tortoise and I could hibernate from Nov to April,  then I could miss out our cold winter and think of it what a easy way of losing weight ::)

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