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Since I don't have a life - all I do is take pics of my "babies" - how about sharing pics of one or more of your redfoots.. everyone?

Late April '05 PIP -

About a year later -

August '07 -

April '08 -

July '08 -

Jan. '09 -

Last week -

Hope I haven't worn out my welcome.

Terry E. Kilgore

Turtletary.com

Nice pics here are a few lookers;

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

Drat, now I gotta break out the camera too?! LOL
Cute baby there!

Matthew

Love those "RED-Legs" Richard!

I knew something was going on when I saw this -

His 'daddy' has these legs!

Thanks..

Terry E. Kilgore

Turtletary.com

what a beautiful baby!

here's junior... i need to take an updated pic or two. hard to believe how tiny she was when i first got her over 5 years ago!

Yeah.. let's see what the front-half of junior looks like unchikun! Was junior comin' or goin'???

Reminded me of this one:

The new keeper of this one calls him "Chucky".. maybe because he came into the world backwards - and - he is a little devil. [ he DID incubate for about 132 days! ]
I told him he was fine when he left here.. but then 'Chucky' was just a few months old then..

He looks O.K. to me..

Terry

Turtletary.com

aww, a breech hatchling!

junior has a thing for boxes... when i took the pic i though, "there's no way she's going to fit in there..."

a few minutes later:

here are some brand new pics i took of her yesterday!

Richard,

I love it when you can see the yellow in the eyes of a hatchlings!

Allegra

Your tortoise pictures you posted below are amazing. The colors are so brilliant. Here is one of my Northern babies swallowing more then its share....thought this was very funny. Richard

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

Thanks, Richard. It is easy when the torts cooperate and pose like the supermodels they are! Ha! Just kidding. I love taking pics of them. I love your tort shots as well.

Here are some pics of three of my cherryhead females. We have added so many new torts, I can't keep up with the pics so here are some of the oldies but goodies. Enjoy.

Allegra

Thanks for the pics Allegra! Most don't realize the Brazilians come in different colors also. And some "marble".. and some don't.

Nesting trance -

Last summer.. [ I didn't raise this one.. a little 'bumpy' ]

Early '05 -

The male at 18 months -

What a nose [ typical of Brazilians ]-

Terry

Hi Terry....You know Pio...he is still looking good...thanks to your care sheets.

what YELLOW eyes they have! love the big red neck blotches, too!

one thing that i've noticed is the variations in eye colors that i've seen... yellow, brown, green and grey (which is what junior's are). can anyone in the know about regional redfoot variations say whether the different eye colors are more typical in certain regions?

below is one of the first pics i took of junior, so tiny that a blueberry wedge is more than a mouthful...

That is a great shot! Such a small thing like a blueberry looks so huge next to the tort. I love it!

My baby LOVES blueberies, picks them out first. Is this a Redfoot thing?

Matthew

I can't believe I caught this on video. [ if there's a better way to post this let me know ]

A "PIP" trying to eat?

Click on PIP below.

Terry

PIP

that is so ridiculously cute! what was he trying to eat, a piece of eggshell or something? bet he's gonna grow up to be a complete pig...

also i laughed when he did what we call "the claw" (wiping his little face). junior does "the claw" not only when she has something on her face, but sometimes as if to let us know that she doesn't want something!

below is a recent pic of her peeking out of the newspaper shreds she digs into to sleep at night.

OK here goes a few...

Rocky in 2001

Rocky 2003

Rocky 2005

Rocky 2005 again

Rocky in 2007. Failed attempt at freeroaming my reptile room. This plan failed for a variety of reasons not the least of which was humidity impossibility and poop painting

Rocky 2008 outside

Thats all for now folks!
Carole
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www.reptilecare.com

This is a picture of a Bolivian Red-foot tortoise I purchased from Pet Farm in 1979. She is just over 16-inches and produces beautiful babies for me every year (eggs incubating now).

Nice Bolivian. My wife (who was my girlfriend in 1979)and I spent three hours picking through that group of Bolivians (there were 500) at Pet Farm for the two most beautiful specimens. I think they were $40.00 each?
Anyway, neither of mine ever fed and both died in less than a week. I was hugely disappointed but I heard from some employees there that many of the others also died as mine did.
But I am glad that at least some of them made it into the hands of those who bred them.
BTW, I saw a number of individuals that were over 18 inches.

Notice the 'dark' plastron on that big girl. She's a beauty!

Would you like me to post one of those "Brazilians" of yours Carl? Let me know which one(s).

Terry

No.
I can post my own photos.

Good.. I'm glad you've learned how. You had recently mentioned on another forum.. on a similar thread.. that you didn't know if you knew how to post pics. You certainly have had several beauties that you've shared pics with me in the past.

Terry

Thanks.
I didn't know how to post on that website. I have been posting photos on Kingsnake.com for many years though.

YEP!.. that 'site is unique in many ways!

I thought/knew you had posted here.

First EVER redFOOT hatchling.. [ wanna see about 100 pics of her? ]

She came out FAST! [ note dates ]

Terry