Garden Tortoises

31/07/2025

🐢🐢Another very useful article from The Tortoise Trust - about food and diet, please have a read 🐢🐢

A wild Testudo hermanni hermanni grazes on low-lying vegetation. Updated Tortoise Trust guidelines for:Feeding Leopard tortoises - Feeding Mediterranean tortoises - Feeding Redfoot and Yellowfoot tortoises - Feeding American Box turtles - Feeding Russian tortoises - Feeding Hingeback tortoises - Fee...

26/07/2025

🐢🐢 Here’s a very clear and detailed explanation of why Coco coir is not a suitable substrate for Mediterranean or Russian tortoises, top soil, the most like their natural environment, is best 🐢🐢

A. C. HighfieldA relatively recent phenomenon (within the past 15 years), apparently driven by advice and recommendations on social media groups and internet forums, is the use of coco coir as a substrate for Mediterranean tortoises and related Testudo species such as the Asian Testudo horsfieldii (...

24/07/2025

🐢🐢 Another more positive news finding today, although not telling us anything we didn’t already know - correct environment and enrichment keep your tortoises happy, which is what we all want! 🐢🐢

Tortoises can feel human emotions like optimism and positivity, a study has found.Tests have shown red-footed tortoises experience long-term moods, similar t...

23/07/2025

Earlier this year Uzbekistan banned all export of Horsfield tortoises (a good thing for welfare in our opinion), meaning that are far fewer hatchlings available in the UK this year. Possible coincidence, but it’s sad to then see news articles like this. It’s a cruel and reckless thing to do.

A Boston woman is being investigated after allegedly importing an endangered species into the UK.

06/07/2025

24/06/2025

🐢🐢 Hello All, we hope you are keeping well. This warm weather means our torts have got off to an early start this year, and we now have Horsfield, Hermann and Marginated hatchlings. Pm for more info thanks 🐢🐢

16/05/2025

🐢🐢 Hello all, this might be a cute half term activity for our smaller tort fans 🐢🐢

14/04/2025

🐢🐢 Easter is fast approaching, but our torts are busy preparing a different kind of egg 🥚 🐢

10/04/2025

🐢🐢 Hello all, we’re on a little Easter break away, today we visited The British Ironwork Centre and found these fabulous statutes of Giant tortoises, thought you all might like to see them too! Aside from tortoises there are many, many other amazing statutes to see here, well recommend a visit if you’re in Shropshire!

05/04/2025

🐢🐢 A great idea for new owners and existing alike to make sure your torts have the best care 🐢🐢

A completely new course designed for those new to keeping tortoises (this particular course does not include aquatic turtle care). All of the

29/03/2025

🐢🐢 Hello everyone, we hope you and your torts are all enjoying the upturn in sunny weather we’ve been having, ours apparently are, we had an unexpected discovery today - 4 horsefield eggs 🥚 Last year the first eggs didn’t appear until Mid April, but the incubator is now on which means the 2025 season has officially begun! Exciting times 🐢🐢

05/03/2025

🐢🐢 hello again, a quick guide of things to check on your tortoise when they emerge from brumation (hibernation) 🐢🐢

https://www.tortoisetrust.com/post/common-post-hibernation-problems-in-tortoises?fbclid=IwY2xjawI1FJFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZWQHneOkrWsFgXIjWJZx5dzjweJCPXyFtJmmlAbOlahAL4Rz7Nne0PsRg_aem_CLtFTmNfhPRBsth4hsACXQ

Tortoises which emerge from hibernation (technically it is more correct to use the term 'brumation', through for the sake of familiarity and brevity we use both terms here) with health problems are in serious - and immediate - danger. For a variety of biological reasons, tortoises are at their most....