African Spurred Tortoises AVAILABLE
March 11, 2009 11:01 am African Spurred TortoisesHatchlings $55 each or buy 5 or more for $45 each
To order email us at richardfife@q.com or call at 520-378-4059
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Hatchlings $55 each or buy 5 or more for $45 each
To order email us at richardfife@q.com or call at 520-378-4059
July 24th, 2009 at 12:44 am
IM INTERESTED IN THE 5 -45 . BUT I WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TO BE LITTLE MORE THAN 2IN 3-4 SO IT COULD HAVE BETTER CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE CAN PICK THE ONES THAT LOOKS LIKE A FEMALE TO HAVE A MORE CHANGE OF GETTING MORE THAN ONE. I LIVE IN SOUTH FLORIDA AND I HAVE A BIG YARD OF AN ACRE DOWN IN THE REDLAND AREA. I READ AND SEARCH FOR ARTICLES ABOUT THEM. THEY ARE GOING TO BE IN GOOD HANDS. IM A GUY 26Y OLD THAT LOVE NATURE-ANIMALS AND PLANTS. I HAVE LIKE A LITTLE FARM WITH A PASO FINO FILLIE, CHICKENS, POND FISHES, RABBITS, AND HONEY BEES. I RECENTLE BOUGHT A PAIR OF ADULT RED FOOTED TORTOISES. BUT I ALWAYS WANTED THE SULCATAS. HOW YOU CAN SEE I LOVE ANIMALS. MY EMAIL IS dannersarmiento@gmail.com and you can replied to my girlfriend LuyeL13@aol.com. PLEASE COULD YOU HELP ME.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Danner:
The hatchings sulcatas are $45 each. People rarely have a problem raising the hatchings. The yearlings are $90 each (it takes a lot of time and money to raise them for a year so I don’t sell them for the hatching price). I have worked with sulcatas for many years and have spent a lot of money trying find ways to sex hatchings and it can’t be done. I also invested in a University study to do temperature sex determination study, and blood work. They can be temperature sexed for females at 90 degrees but over 30% will end up with irregular scute patterns, which must be discounted so I rarely temperature sex them anymore. There is no way to determine the sex by blood work. The tortoises I have were incubated between 86 and 88 degrees, which would result in a mix of males and females. If you are interested in breeding them in the future you would do much better buying a pair of yearling heterozygous for “Ivory Tortoise” ($400 a pair). 25% of their babies would be “Ivory tortoises” and would sell for way more than a normal sulcata. I also have unsexed heterozygous tortoises for $100 each and temperature sexed females for $150 each.
If you are interested in the hatching for $45 I will look at them to try and determine the sex but can’t guarantee anything.
Thank you for your interest,
Richard