I have learned recently that if you happen to heat with wood and have an upstairs, there is no problem keeping a room or two 80-90 degrees for the same energy cost that you are using to heat the main floor. The issue is space. There are only so many days that go by before these animals want to roam and when my almost 2 year 24lb sulcata wants to walk and graze we're talking acres that would need to be heated with living grass. Like a football field or so. You don't want these animals to be sad because they can't go out and it would probably make you feel bad to watch it just sit there waiting to go out. Unless you have a large dedicated heated barn I would recommend against it.Are you sure you want to raise a giant sulcata in Canada? I lived a couple years in Canada and don’t want to think about how hard keeping a large sulcata In winter there would be. Sorry not trying to be a downer. I don’t know of a sulcata breeder In Canada. I would think that is because just how hard and expensive it would be to keep let alone breed them in the Canadian winter.
I agree with the above post. Think long and hard about it. How are you going to keep an over 100lb. bulldozer at or above 80°F during the winter months? Can you make a large enough space for him and keep that space heated all winter. . . I'm talking about something like a barn (they need a lot of room to walk around. Walking aids digestion). Somewhere here on the Forum one of our members posted a picture of a sulcata that tore a hole in the wall of the room he was in.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOl LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL oh that is so freakin funny...I LOVE SULCATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can't see it very good, but this sulcata has broken through a chicken wire fence:
I’ll have to see if I can get a picture of the 2 massive holes Curtis put in a sturdy chain-link fence a while ago…
You can't see it very good, but this sulcata has broken through a chicken wire fence: