Doris and Dolly are Horsfield tortoises (so a small species, but with large personalities
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). We had a couple of hours of sunshine yesterday, and it was 15C so I put them outside for an hour or so, until their shells started to feel cold. Today it's raining and only 11C. I sometimes think that the reason the British Empire mainly consisted of areas that were warm (Africa, India, Australia etc.) is because it allowed the ruling classes to have somewhere to go to escape the climate here!
Doris laid two eggs about two weeks ago (she always lays a couple of eggs about two weeks after waking from hibernation and then another one or two about two weeks after that.) So on Saturday she laid another one (which I hope is it for the year). Horsfields lay large eggs for their size, and I always marvel at how those large eggs fit inside of her and somehow manage to come out. Here's a photo of her next to the egg she laid on Saturday (she weighs about 640g and the egg was 30g). She digs a lovely deep nest, lays the eggs and then covers the nest back up (I have photos of the whole process), but sadly the eggs aren't fertile as she has only ever been kept with another female, so I then go and dig the eggs up when she's not looking
Nina
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