I'm so excited!!
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It is always hard anticipating the worst, waiting for them to come up.
Next Fall will be the first time I leave my Three Toed outside to hibernate. I will be a nervous wreck. We never had a problem with the Ornate or the Easterns, so hopefully she will come up OK too.
Can you post a picture of your enclosure, and where you let them hibernate. I am building a new boxie pen and am looking for ideas, and always interested in seeing where and how others hibernate.
Next Fall will be the first time I leave my Three Toed outside to hibernate. I will be a nervous wreck. We never had a problem with the Ornate or the Easterns, so hopefully she will come up OK too.
Can you post a picture of your enclosure, and where you let them hibernate. I am building a new boxie pen and am looking for ideas, and always interested in seeing where and how others hibernate.
Yea! It is scary the first time you do it, so I'm glad everything worked out well!
I don't have good pictures of the set up. At the end of summer, the pen was full of Strawberry plants, a tomato plant, many different flowers, ferns,...I also have half buried rotting logs. The picture of the pen is after I took the winter roof off this week and took out about six paper yard bags of leaves out.
I am in Michigan and today was in the upper 70s. Three did come up, but there is at least four more to show up (it's hard to remember exactly how many I put in last summer because I only see a couple at a time during the summer and none during the winter).
I am in Michigan and today was in the upper 70s. Three did come up, but there is at least four more to show up (it's hard to remember exactly how many I put in last summer because I only see a couple at a time during the summer and none during the winter).
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That's very sad news. Hopefully the rest will turn up OK. I like the portable roof. How deep do you make the
leaves.
leaves.
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When I added the leaves, I was not really looking for a certain level, but after I was done their was at least a foot plus of leaves. I used the roof to keep the snow from pyling up and I was not sure how well things would drain so it helped keep the extra rain out. As you can see, the two sides stayed open which let some in. Also, one open side was to the south. We do have easterns here in MI and I wanted the 3-toeds to have a good chance if we had a harsh winter.
One thing I noticed is that they did not go very deep into the dirt. They either were very close to the surface or under a log. So it was good I had the leaves and cover. Mel, the one that died, was about half way out of the dirt, so the leaves where really all that covered him.
Another thing...I always thought they would dig deeper and be closed up in their shells tight. So far, the one that came up were not closed tight because when they dug down the dirt got trapped in their shells so they could not close them much at all. Their legs were able to be pulled in most of the way though.
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Sorry to hear of the loss.
Kevin, I'm so sorry for your loss. I have experienced the same thing. It was the most upset I've ever been at the loss of an animal. I felt like it was my fault and it could have easily been prevented. I was right.
You know I like you, and I mean no offense, but this is exactly why I don't hibernate anything "naturally" anymore. I spend too much time, money and effort to RISK their lives for no good reason. They can hibernate just as well and get all the same benefits indoors, under controlled, monitored conditions.
I wish you all the best.
You know I like you, and I mean no offense, but this is exactly why I don't hibernate anything "naturally" anymore. I spend too much time, money and effort to RISK their lives for no good reason. They can hibernate just as well and get all the same benefits indoors, under controlled, monitored conditions.
I wish you all the best.
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