Kapidolo Farms

06/29/2024

Pomona (LA county Fairplex) Pets super show. Reptiles, birds, fish, & plants.
Tortoises in comments.

06/25/2024

https://www.kapidolofarms.com/product/sample-variety-pack-offer/

These are very popular at shows. To buy one has a low economical encounter at the post office, so the folks at the webpage company I use sorted out making purchases in bundles to bring the price down to what I offer them for at shows.

Explore our 1 oz Sample Variety Pack Offer! Pricing is simple: buy 1 for $24.99, 2 for $44.99, or enjoy a special rate of $19.99 each when you purchase all 3. Perfect for trying our range of products!

06/11/2024

https://youtu.be/J6JN0BKhGds?si=AX5Sv9ZaKKTVXhRW
A balanced and level headed short that should help anyone considering moving your tortoises outside, to go forward or at least have the benefits and potential concerns associated with 'outside'. Super cool shirt as well.

Keeping tortoises outside can be a wonderful enriching opportunity for them - but it's not for everyone. NO JUDGEMENT if you are a strictly indoor keeper! Th...

06/03/2024

A new variety pack 'More Popular Tortoise Weeds' is on sale for June 2024. More Tortoise Weeds include Echinacea, Marshmallow, and Tulsi.
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Giving Tulsi a little boost. It's clear that free sample placed with orders move the needle some. Maybe a sale will do more?

I am putting organic teas in with orders now that are of one of the foods, so you can enjoy it, or use it for your tortoises. It takes alot of time to prepare all those one ounce sample packs, and I get near zero feedback. The teas are another way to offer a treat for your tortoise, or you if you care to try them. So far I'm really liking the echinacea, rose hips/hibiscus combo is good too.

If you are really interested in a one ounce sample to be included in your order, ask in comments to vendor when you order. Take your time and read the options as you progress through the buying process, every web browser and pay path have it different, so I have no universal guide as the where that box appears.

I'm trying to sort out a way for sample size (one ounce) sales of any individual items, in my own opinion, it's too expensive. Some are here https://kapidolofarm.etsy.com under the brand name Urotastic. These are selling like this, labeled for Uromastyx lizard keepers, but the same wholesome organic sourced botanicals.

Kapidolo Farms delivers tortoises, food, supplies, and merchandise across the United States from our farm in Bonsall, California.

05/18/2024

CTTC one day show at First Christian Church in Orange. The runs 'till 4. If you're in the area I have most items and no shipping cost built into online prices AND a bit lower because CTTC. CTTC is the longest running T&T organization in the US.

05/04/2024

So, the sh*ts happening. 33 acres of southern Texas being sold to a Californian - oh my. I think as gruff as Texans are to Floridians and Californian transplants you all to damn nice to sell that. Common interactions in grocery stores reveal a kind of kindness that is crazy wonderful.

These photos and the link are of the place, and the people. Erin Nichole as a realtor offered no sideways looks regarding a property for tortoises. There is a lot of spilt milk regarding my attempt to land in southern California to have a tortoise farm property. Many realtors just don't listen. Erin listens and has a modestly expressed high end intelligence. I don't suffer stupid so well. William Latham of LandNTexas has a catalog of properties. William and Erin now have a working and proven habit. If Texas is not for you Erin is still likely to help you out. A realtor that 'gets it' regarding herps is super unique. Give her a chance if you too are escaping the ever oppressive Florida legislative environment or the tax and spend folk in California.

So the pictures, one is an image off of Will's phone of a 500 pound boar recently hunted in an adjoining property, my only lingering concern/fear. Come shoot a pig at Kapidolo Farms may become a thing. Erin and Will and Will, Erin and Will, Erin with a snake hook (did I say she gets it?). Lots of images across 33 acres of future Galapagos Tortoise Alliance space for grow out etc. Enough space for alternate climate species in a building. My brain is exploding. Power is there. A water well probably in a month or so, then septic, a pad, a building. Later greenhouse or two. The 'back yard harvest' part of Kapidolo Farms selection is likely to grow - in a few years. I'm a one man enterprise.

I am happy crying as I pull this together. It's been a few decades for the resources to exist and the co-authors in my novel of a life to be silent. Early living here will be spartan, but eventually there will be space for guests. As things progress, this post and comments I ad will be the Texas Kapidolo Farms blog.

I took too long to get this here. Here's the link to LandNTexas. So, the sh*ts happening. 33 acres of southern Texas being sold to a Californian - oh my. I think as gruff as Texans are to Floridians and Californian transplants you all to damn nice to sell that. Common interactions in grocery stores reveal a kind of kindness that is crazy wonderful.

These photos and the link are of the place, and the people. Erin Nichole as a realtor offered no sideways looks regarding a property for tortoises. There is a lot of spilt milk regarding my attempt to land in southern California to have a tortoise farm property. Many realtors just don't listen. Erin listens and has a modestly expressed high end intelligence. I don't suffer stupid so well. William Latham of LandNTexas has a catalog of properties. William and Erin now have a working and proven habit. If Texas is not for you Erin is still likely to help you out. A realtor that 'gets it' regarding herps is super unique. Give her a chance if you too are escaping the ever oppressive Florida legislative environment or the tax and spend folk in California.

04/27/2024

Sacramento reptile show, 27/28 April 2024. All set up. I'll do another few seconds Saturday morning with a viewing of the chelonians.

04/13/2024

04/05/2024

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Here we go! See you this weekend at the OC Fair & Event Center
Sat 10-5
Sun 10-4

03/31/2024

Hey ya all, April sale at Kapidolo Farms is all the 'doubles' are on sale.
What's a double you so rightfully ask?
When you select a variety pack (five items at two ounces each) at about $35, you can select 'double' the amount (five items at four ounces each) for $49.99. so twice the stuff for $15 more.
For April the doubles are all $45 each - so now the double stuff is double less $$.
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03/24/2024

See you there.

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03/20/2024

More and more I'm using cactus flour and the fines from making cactus chips. The fines are what shakes out when I sift the chips.
High calcium foods like escarole, endive, & raddiccio are very critical to growing baby tortoises. Adding opuntia with about a 20:1 bioavailable calcium phosphorus ratio keeps that shell growing, the fenestra closing and reduces the potential for pyramiding. I don't like using calcium carbonate with babies. High calcium foods result in strong shelled babies.

03/15/2024

A short narrative of an enclosure and CenVal show animals coming to Costa Mesa ( Orange county fairgrounds) 6 & 7 April.

03/12/2024

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03/10/2024

Phae, a Manouria emys 'pha'yeri is the chief taste tester here at Kapidolo Farms. She's an Island girl who was hatched at the Honolulu zoo in 1984.

03/09/2024

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03/07/2024

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Thursday evening Aaron S. Johnson joins me live at 8 p.m. eastern. We'll be doing a deep dive on the Bell's Hingeback Tortoise and Aaron's success with this species. Link in the comments. You will not want to miss this.

03/04/2024

Hey, I changed my earlier comment. I think I was too impatient for the complete video to load.

03/01/2024

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Only the best for my babies 🐢❤️

02/23/2024

Best cost. Every order gets a free sample size of an organic botanical or another commercial food. ZooMed ranks high in side by side comparisons to other commercial foods.



Hikari mulberry delight, Arcadia Optimized52, and organic Purina layer crumbles are also in the store.

https://www.kapidolofarms.com/product-category/foods-and-diet-items/prepared-diets/

Check it out.

02/22/2024

Two turtle Tom's podcast tonight Thursday 22 march 2024 will have me as a guest.

Let's play 'stump the chump' ask questions about tortoises in general or their foods, feeding, and nutrition. To be clear, I'll be the chump, not Tom.

Specific topics can be...
1, what's the deal with organic?
2, grassland is a habitat - not a diet strategy.
3, enrichment from food
4, variety - touching on secondary compounds and nonUSDA qualified compounds.
5, how to feed large collections economically

Or the topic you bring. One fun interesting question can direct the whole podcast. It's live, but if you can't listen at that time post your question here, and listen later at your leisure.

Feeding tortoises better since 2015.
Will.

02/20/2024

I am trying out organic 'Tulsi leaf & flower' mixed in with salads.
For those of you who enjoy and are interesting in reading about stuff look here ...https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296439/

The deal, Buy anything from www.kapidoloFarms.com and get a two ounce sample.
Let me know you want to try the tulsi in the notes to vendor. If that does not work for you call me with your order info, right after you make the order and tell me IRL on the phone. 215-483-7675.

Then you got to share what you observe. This is the part where so so so many of you don't follow-up. Then call me and tell me and I'll summarize what you said and report it as 'secret tortoise Keeper says'...

I am using a two ounce portion out of the one pound bag I bought, so there are only 7 free samples. If several weeks go by and any is left over I'll just make it one ounce sample size included with a random purchase.

I'd much rather have the feedback.

Kapidolo Farms delivers tortoises, food, supplies, and merchandise across the United States from our farm in Bonsall, California.

02/20/2024

Grass and hay.

02/03/2024

I call reptile shows, 'trade' shows because to a great extent it's a show for commerce with reptiles and allied interests.

This is not a trade show, it's an educational day, with sales of allied things like books etc. the chelonians are there to share the experience of their keepers. Literally a showing of many species and those people who enjoy them.

CTTC has many chapters, several with shows that are spread across southern California. I like the OC chapter's shows. I hope to see you there.

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