My Outdoor Russian Enclosures

[Tom]

Any chance of a peek at how you house your adults ?!

I don't have any adults right now.

 

[lynnedit]

Here is a trick that sometimes works for me. Buy it FOR your wife. "Look honey. I made this new cage for you, so you don't have to worry about the blue jays flipping our babies any more. Wasn't that nice of me?"

That would certainly work for me!

 

[Ashley99]

That is such a nice enclosure and it looks so secure I bet they love to be in it.​

 

[jeffjeff]

looks great. wish i had room to build some thing like that.

 

[Tom]

Earlier in this thread I mentioned my new semi buried night box in the smaller of the three enclosures. I knew it would take a little time to get them all using it. On night one, I put them all in the box after dark and they stayed until morning. On night two, 4 out of 6 put themselves away. From night three until tonight, 5 out of 6 put themselves away. And tonight... drumroll please... ALL 6 put themselves away! Woo Hoo!

 

[68merc]

Don't hold your breath.

 

[bouaboua]

Once again. Congrats for all 6 russian are all in the night box........

 

[TortoiseRN]

RTs are a lot smarter than people think. I put an insulated dog house in my RT enclosure and put them in it 1x. That was about three weeks ago. Now I can practically tell ya what time it is by there evening routine. 6pm rolls around and it's like someone blew a whistle. They all head straight for their house. Congrats again Tom!!

 

[turtlemanfla88]

Tom great Enclosure. I keep Russians in Florida it took years to get them used to the rains. Our winter are cold and warm and even cold and wet. When cold and wet they come in. I think I have two sub species.