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I hadn't been on here in awhile so I thought I'd give you all an update. We now have 23 Sulcatas ranging from 5 oz. to 100 pounds. We have 10 males in one pasture; 5 males in another pasture; 5 males that are all under 20 pounds in yet another enclosure, and the baby in the house. We took in...

I was just curious about your experience with large tortoises as I tried to differentiate between the fact and fiction of your advice. While I did not make it clear in my first post that all 3 were males, that was corrected quickly and long before your diatribe about my terminology.

I'm curious, Team Gomberg, how many tortoises do you have? What species are they and how are they housed? I used generic terms on here because I am not an expert and wanted to get my point across. I have, however, been in touch with an expert and we are handling this based on his advice.

I'm such a newbie, I'm not sure how to add pictures. I had a heck of a time putting the one on my profile. The "lover" is the guy in the back of my profile picture.

He's doesn't seem to be a fighter, just an intense lover!! The crack is on the bottom of his shell right where it strikes his love interests shell. It happened yesterday and we saw it almost immediately because we try to protect the others from him when they are all out grazing. But he is...

Oops, typo. I meant we have NOW separated him from the other two so all are safe. We noticed that one of the others stays in the barn most of the time and figured it had something to do with the constant breeding. We have rescued all of these and each came from a home with no other tortoises...

I get that, but the other two are males as well and have never bred anything.

We have a 70 pound Sulcata male that breeds our others until he has cracked his shell!!! It's not a bad crack but it started to bleed. We have now separated him from the other two so all are safe. My question is . . . has anyone else experienced this and what did you do??