Almost yearlings!

[Pearly]

So how do they look?
Non nom nom...
filthy and dry enjoying their cooked shrimp (this is their calcium supplement disguise) they love it

? Shellie and Tucker, my Grandtortoises

here's vagabond-Tucker, sweet and petite

and here's Shellie, growing like a weed, eating machine

Tucker's belly and skinny legs

and Shellie-bellie

here the obvious difference in size. They are this same age according to the breeder. Tucker was the one that gave me so much trouble at the beginning, not wanting to eat, then escaping and being gone for 4 weeks (bad boy, bad boy!!! Grandma was soooo worried!!!)

sweet pretty boy (or... girl?)

courageous, very inquisitive girl (???) with huge personality.
We don't coconut oil them very often but may need to step it up a bit. It really helps those dry head scales

 

[JoesMum]

Dry head scales are just the skin shedding. It's normal.

Snakes do it all in one go. You do it in very tiny dust unless there's a problem. A tortoise does something in between and looks downright tatty on occasion. The shedding skin just rubs off as he barges round.

A tort's skin doesn't need oiling or moisturising.

 

[Pearly]

Dry head scales are just the skin shedding. It's normal.

Snakes do it all in one go. You do it in very tiny dust unless there's a problem. A tortoise does something in between and looks downright tatty on occasion. The shedding skin just rubs off as he barges round.

A tort's skin doesn't need oiling or moisturising.

I know they don't get the oil massages in nature but it makes me and my daughter feel good when we give them little spa treatment from time to time

 

[Oxalis]

I could use a spa treatment, speaking of which! I wish my mom would admit that her grandkid is a grandtortoise. You're not getting human babies from me!

 

[kathyth]

I think they look great and are very lucky tortoises!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

They really are two beautiful tortoises.
Are they both cherries or just Tucker?
Don't forget that most cherries grow slower and end up smaller than your regular RF.

 

[Pearly]

I could use a spa treatment, speaking of which! I wish my mom would admit that her grandkid is a grandtortoise. You're not getting human babies from me!

Haha! You are so funny! I used to say that to my Mom too! but in my late 30's decided to beat the "running clock" and had my daughter at 37.5 yrs old and then my twin boys 2 wks after my 41st birthday so never say NEVER

 

[Pearly]

I think they look great and are very lucky tortoises!

Thank you Kathy. I love animals, all of them, and whatever critter enters my house they get the "Polish hospitality" treatment

 

[Pearly]

They really are two beautiful tortoises.
Are they both cherries or just Tucker?
Don't forget that most cherries grow slower and end up smaller than your regular RF.

Tucker is the Cherryhead, Shellie is RF. Funny bcs she was a very pretty baby and little Tuck-tac, not so much and now, look at him! And Shellie is just a chubby little funny bulldozer! I love them both. And that slower growth definitely checks out in Tucker's case. Shellie is so heavy (over 14 oz!) and he's just little over 8oz. She's also a whole inch longer than he. His little legs are so skinny though! I always worry that he may not be eating enough. Shellka is my eating machine. She eats everything and all the time. Tuck-tac has few things that he really likes and others he just turns his nose up to... Little stinker

 

[Oxalis]

Haha! You are so funny! I used to say that to my Mom too! but in my late 30's decided to beat the "running clock" and had my daughter at 37.5 yrs old and then my twin boys 2 wks after my 41st birthday so never say NEVER

Wow! Actually "no kids" was a deal-breaker with my fiance when we started dating. Neither of us ever want kids. Sometimes I would tell him, "If you want kids, you can have the uterus!"

 

[Pearly]

Wow! Actually "no kids" was a deal-breaker with my fiance when we started dating. Neither of us ever want kids. Sometimes I would tell him, "If you want kids, you can have the uterus!"

You are both lucky to have agreed on such important issue plus is sounds like your fiancé is supportive of your "animal connection". That's huge!

 

[Anyfoot]

So how do they look?
Non nom nom...
View attachment 170828 filthy and dry enjoying their cooked shrimp (this is their calcium supplement disguise) they love it

?View attachment 170816 Shellie and Tucker, my Grandtortoises

View attachment 170817 here's vagabond-Tucker, sweet and petite

View attachment 170818 and here's Shellie, growing like a weed, eating machine

View attachment 170819 Tucker's belly and skinny legs

View attachment 170820 and Shellie-bellie

View attachment 170821 here the obvious difference in size. They are this same age according to the breeder. Tucker was the one that gave me so much trouble at the beginning, not wanting to eat, then escaping and being gone for 4 weeks (bad boy, bad boy!!! Grandma was soooo worried!!!)

View attachment 170822 sweet pretty boy (or... girl?)

View attachment 170826 courageous, very inquisitive girl (???) with huge personality.
We don't coconut oil them very often but may need to step it up a bit. It really helps those dry head scales

Only just seen this pearls. They look fantastic. Should be proud. .

 

[Pearly]

Only just seen this pearls. They look fantastic. Should be proud. .

Hey thanks! Mostly I'm just happy to have them. The animals just "fill up my bucket", I have to have them in my life

 

[Kasia]

Dry head scales are just the skin shedding. It's normal.

Snakes do it all in one go. You do it in very tiny dust unless there's a problem. A tortoise does something in between and looks downright tatty on occasion. The shedding skin just rubs off as he barges round.

A tort's skin doesn't need oiling or moisturising.

Beautiful torts you have there Grandma

 

[Pearly]

Beautiful torts you have there Grandma

Dzieki, Kasia

 

[ZEROPILOT]

My wifes mother was from Poland
My wife speaks some Polish. Mainly to me. I'm not exactly sure what it means, but I'll bet it's not very nice.

 

[Pearly]

My wifes mother was from Poland
My wife speaks some Polish. Mainly to me. I'm not exactly sure what it means, but I'll bet it's not very nice.

Yeap! She probably curses you out like a drunken sailor to blow the steam off when you do something that's disagreeable to her. That's what I do with my Old Man

 

[Oxalis]

Yeap! She probably curses you out like a drunken sailor to blow the steam off when you do something that's disagreeable to her. That's what I do with my Old Man

Ha! I love it! Sometimes I do that too.