hingeback

I recently made a tour of my whole room - I hope you enjoy, and I hope this inspires you to love hingeback tortoises even more.

Not my posting. Someone in a FB group I'm in has found a hingeback (Kinyxis) in their yard. https://www.facebook.com/groups/738523053904299/permalink/982974132792522/?mibextid=Nif5oz

I'm working with Jay Frewer to distribute four of my 2022 very well established, closed-chamber grown, rock solid Kinixys nogueyi. These tortoises are amazing creatures that are omnivorous and stay small. I've kept them for over 20 years and they are a delight to own...

Hello Hingeback and all Tortoise community! I have recently acquired a very cute Hingeback, we have named her Zilli. I was told that she was a male and about 2 years old but I feel she might be a little older but the age is of any huge concern, what i would really like to know categorically is...

Hello! I’m new here and I recently got a spekes hinge back tortoise. I’ve named her Maeve and she’s adorable. She’s eating great, I’m just trying to get her comfortable and less shy. Everything I’ve read about spekes is pretty broad and I feel like every picture I’ve seen has looked different...

(species- forest hinge back)hello, i just got my first ever tortoise a few days ago, he came form a farm and was caught, the farmer said he eats ugbono fruit, but there was a small problem, I fed him a varied diet of cucumbers,cabbage,apples and bannanas but he wont even eat it,my mom even gave...

Hi so I understand that a lot of the Speke's Hinge-back Tortoises that have been coming into the use lately are likely to be Bell's. My question is do these look like the same species or distinct species from each other?

After nearly a two-year absence of imported hingebacks on the U.S. market, some have started coming into the U.S. this year. If you do consider purchasing a wild caught animal, be sure to ask lots of questions to the seller. IF IN DOUBT, I'm here to answer any question about an animal that you...

I'd really like to thank everyone that's contributed information about how to incubate tortoise eggs. I've learned A TON from TFO. Here's a look at what I'm doing with Kinixys. Thanks! -Tom

Hello TFO! Over the past two months, I've been working on a Hingeback Tortoise channel on YouTube. My kiddoes are literally giving me tips on how to make the videos fun while being informative at the same time. In the latest video, I detail some of the foods I buy for my Hingeback Tortoises.

Back in 2000 or so, I created the first and probably only website dedicated to Hingeback tortoises- it was built on the Geocities platform. I've recreated it, and will be updating it regularly blog style. Enjoy- if you'd like your work with hingebacks to be featured, let me know...

Buddy is the cutest little guy of the group. Only about 1-3 years old, he's smaller that all the other, but big in heart!

Moses is my longest, kept tort. He likes walking around when it rains, and loves eating mulberries! He is my oldest male.

I've been keeping western hingeback's (Kinixys nogueyi) for over 21 years. As many of you know, they haven't been allowed to be imported to the USA since 2000 after they were found to carry a tick that could transmit heartwater disease to cattle. Now, they are extremely rare in the U.S., and...

Interesting video on chimps cracking open tortise shells and eating. https://news.sky.com/story/chimps-spotted-cracking-open-tortoises-shells-and-eating-reptiles-for-first-time-11726934?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Hi All- I've been helping quite a few people on Facebook with their newly acquired imported Home's Hingebacks. It doesn't look like we have a good care guide here at this forum, and I'm toying around with the idea of putting one together. For those that have been successful acclimating...

I’d love to add an additional adult female Nogueyi (Western Hingeback) to my breeding group, currently consisting of 2.1 animals. Please Let me know if you might have a female that you are looking to pair up with a male. I know there aren’t many of us out there that keep Nogueyi! I always...

Hello! I have kept two western hingebacks, Kinixys nogueyi, for 20 years, and before that I unsuccessfully kept Home's hingebacks. I'm a scientist by training, so when doing research, I access the scientific literature that is available through databases like Google Scholar. Fortunately...

Hey there! I just got my first hingeback, and from what I can tell he's a Kinixys spekii? I measured his carapace and it was 13,5 cm and I weight him and it was 373grams. I think he might be underweight but I'm unsure? He's still adapting to his new enviroment and is very picky about what he...

Hello Fellow Tortoise Enthusiasts; I'm new here, but I've been keeping Kinixys since I was a teenager; I have two today, including this one, that I'm wondering what exact species it may be. It was sold to me as a West African Hingeback, and it has only four front toenails. However, this one...