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  1. Edna

    Babies are doing great!

    Lynne, He spent about 10 hours in my classroom, working with my students, and he used my classroom as a supply stop when working in our building. I have offered to include live worms, roly-poly bugs (crustaceans), meal worms, fish, snails, moss, plants, living soil, adult tortoise or box turtle...
  2. Edna

    Babies are doing great!

    Thanks! Our district science teacher informed me that life science is "dry". In my own classroom, as least, this is not true at all. My first grade students have read extensively about fish and aquaria, and have observed and written about the inhabitants of our aquarium. They have read...
  3. Edna

    Babies are doing great!

    I acquired 3 baby boxies from HermanniChris several months ago and set them up in a terrarium in my classroom. My students "discovered" that we had turtles when one of them chanced to see a little guy peeking out of the moss. That was an extremely rare occurrence up until Wednesday...
  4. Edna

    Do you like meat?

    I can honestly say that I've never craved seaweed. In my first pregnancy I didn't crave anything, but instead had an extreme revulsion to potatoes. Raw, cooking, cooked it didn't matter. The smell made me want to puke. In my second pregnancy I was extremely attracted to the smell of beer. While...
  5. Edna

    New baby box turtles

    Smallish meal worms and roly-poly bugs.
  6. Edna

    Do you like meat?

    I'm going to say "no." Game animals don't respect boundaries. They spend a lot of time in the farmers' fields and are exposed to/eating chemicals that grass-fed beef would not encounter. Roundup, anyone??
  7. Edna

    Do you like meat?

    Similar experience, without the weight gain. I am allergic to peanuts and most tree nuts, don't do well with corn, soy, or legumes, and have a hard time digesting several vegetable families. Meat is my best source of protein. I eat a lot of vegetarian meals, but meat is still regularly on the menu.
  8. Edna

    Attachment issues

    When I read your thread title I expected your post to be about how you were so attached to your torts that you thought about them all day and had a hard time leaving for work, etc. Anyway, I use photobucket for pictures on this site. It's a little bit of a pain because it adds a couple of steps...
  9. Edna

    would this be a benefit of brumation?

    Courtney, two of my Hermanns have been brumating in their indoor enclosure since the second week of January or so. They are burying themselves deep (6-8-inches) in the damp substrate. I dig them up every few weeks because this is our first season of brumation and I am trying to develop faith in...
  10. Edna

    2 YEAR OLD FACEOFF

    LOL I didn't notice the shirt until you mentioned it:)
  11. Edna

    2 YEAR OLD FACEOFF

    That's a beautiful grandson you've got there! I vote for strawberry in his fingers rather than red on his perfect nose.
  12. Edna

    Are rocks from outside safe to bring in and use?

    Wood mites? Chiggers? Having lived in the cold northern reaches of the country for so long, I'd forgotten about chiggers. Don't tell me the rocks have mites, too:)
  13. Edna

    Volunteer keeper lost her life today...

    DeanS, your comments reveal an incredible degree of insensitivity to the tragic loss of human life. I get that you value animal life over human life, and I get that you have no inhibitions about blaming the victim. Still, you wouldn't have to be mean-spirited about it.
  14. Edna

    Are rocks from outside safe to bring in and use?

    Just curious here. What exactly are you all killing when you bake/boil/bleach? I use rocks directly from my garden without doing any of that. I brush off clinging dirt and in they go. I use bark from the yard with just a little rinse and inspection for spider egg sacs. In they go. Tortoises are...
  15. Edna

    Holy URATES, Batman!

    In the words of Shrek, better out than in!
  16. Edna

    My girl, Friday!

    I appreciate the faith expressed in my ability to care for this girl, but I have to say that she is only my 4th box turtle ever, and my first three arrived the day before I got her! Thread on them to come, no hurry on my end:) Anyway, I have a question: Her hind toenails are long and curved. My...
  17. Edna

    My girl, Friday!

    The earthworms have had quite the effect on the old girl. I weighed her again after placing six big worms in her enclosure, and she was 14 grams heavier. Also, this morning when I first met her, and all day at school, she was Miss Congeniality. After her first three worms, her personality made a...
  18. Edna

    pretend chat

    Where I lived in Montana (NE corner) it was a big flyway. We'd see lots of geese and ducks, and cranes. I loved when the cranes came over.
  19. Edna

    My girl, Friday!

    Yes, her first live food in at least six months. She had a really hard time getting that first one down, but at this time she has eaten two more and continues to hunt. The woman who gave her to me said she liked fruit, but she seems to "forget" about fruit when there is live food available.
  20. Edna

    My girl, Friday!

    Quite serious. I don't know why someone would do that, but I know a couple of weeks ago a forum member found a Russian that was painted green with orange marginals. People just don't think.
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