I have three babcock and two pardalis. The one little male babcock was the first leopard egg I ever hatched, so I decided to keep him. I did a terrible job raising him. He's very pyramided. He's around 4 years old and weighs 5lbs.
One of the females really belongs to a friend of mine. She used to be a reptile-keeper at our zoo, but she retired and moved into an apartment. She asked if Tortelini could come stay with me. Tortelini weighs 26lbs.
The other female came to me from Cincinnati, OH. The gal who brought her to me was a school teacher. She went to school one Monday morning and discovered a cardboard box in front of her class-room door. The box contained a handful of green apples and a tortoise. No note or explanation. The school teacher went online and found my rescue web site, and she asked me if I would be interested in taking the tortoise. This was about a month before the end of the school year.
She and her boyfriend were planning a vacation out to California, and instead of flying, they decided to drive out here and bring me the tortoise. She's a young babcock and she's done quite a bit of growing in the 5 or 6 years that I've had her. She weighs 23lbs.
So, here's my babcock family. Tortelini is on the left, but the sun was so bright on her that I moved her over to be in the back of the group. My little male is on the left side of Cincinnati.
The contraption in the back is where I keep my pardalis babies.
Then, I have two pardalis babies that I got from Tom last year. I don't know their age, but they're probably close to a year old. If you compare the upright board, which is a 2x4, to the baby, it looks like he's about 4" long:
Man-o-man...can these babies eat. They are so much like sulcata babies. I put a big mound of food down every morning and they clean up every speck of it.
One of the females really belongs to a friend of mine. She used to be a reptile-keeper at our zoo, but she retired and moved into an apartment. She asked if Tortelini could come stay with me. Tortelini weighs 26lbs.
The other female came to me from Cincinnati, OH. The gal who brought her to me was a school teacher. She went to school one Monday morning and discovered a cardboard box in front of her class-room door. The box contained a handful of green apples and a tortoise. No note or explanation. The school teacher went online and found my rescue web site, and she asked me if I would be interested in taking the tortoise. This was about a month before the end of the school year.
She and her boyfriend were planning a vacation out to California, and instead of flying, they decided to drive out here and bring me the tortoise. She's a young babcock and she's done quite a bit of growing in the 5 or 6 years that I've had her. She weighs 23lbs.
So, here's my babcock family. Tortelini is on the left, but the sun was so bright on her that I moved her over to be in the back of the group. My little male is on the left side of Cincinnati.
The contraption in the back is where I keep my pardalis babies.
Then, I have two pardalis babies that I got from Tom last year. I don't know their age, but they're probably close to a year old. If you compare the upright board, which is a 2x4, to the baby, it looks like he's about 4" long:
Man-o-man...can these babies eat. They are so much like sulcata babies. I put a big mound of food down every morning and they clean up every speck of it.
