A few of our grandchildren seem to really have the interest in our tortoises and love to help when they come stay at our new Galapagos Farm.
Our granddaughter Emma is helping today along with a friend of hers. Both love to help and the help is welcome! Here they are putting back some of the 2023 hatchlings after their soak. These Galapagos are between 6 and 9 weeks old now.
A few weeks ago one of the Grandsons spent 3 days at our place. Gavin really loves to stay over and will keep busy most all day helping with chores from feeding, bringing in and out, letting them out in the morning opening the night houses, etc, etc. He is really interested in tortoises and looks like a future tortoise keeper. Here he is greeting some of the larger tortoises as he let them out that morning.
We often throw out some opuntia pads in the morning to supplement their diet, but mostly they all simply graze all day on the pasture. That is 95% of their diet.
Even the one-year olds graze almost exclusively in a temporary enclosure I can move around in adjacent pastures.
As the sun get higher and temperatures rise, they all do seek shade.
I do run the sprinklers on them and let it rain for several hours during the hot days. Then they all come out of the shade and graze. It's amazing how much the walk around and travel during the course of a day in these large pastures.
Our granddaughter Emma is helping today along with a friend of hers. Both love to help and the help is welcome! Here they are putting back some of the 2023 hatchlings after their soak. These Galapagos are between 6 and 9 weeks old now.
A few weeks ago one of the Grandsons spent 3 days at our place. Gavin really loves to stay over and will keep busy most all day helping with chores from feeding, bringing in and out, letting them out in the morning opening the night houses, etc, etc. He is really interested in tortoises and looks like a future tortoise keeper. Here he is greeting some of the larger tortoises as he let them out that morning.
We often throw out some opuntia pads in the morning to supplement their diet, but mostly they all simply graze all day on the pasture. That is 95% of their diet.
Even the one-year olds graze almost exclusively in a temporary enclosure I can move around in adjacent pastures.
As the sun get higher and temperatures rise, they all do seek shade.
I do run the sprinklers on them and let it rain for several hours during the hot days. Then they all come out of the shade and graze. It's amazing how much the walk around and travel during the course of a day in these large pastures.