I have a four year old sulcata that I purchased from ATC a little more than four years ago. I live in Tennessee where it can get quite cold in the winter. He lives in my heated green house, and he has his own fenced in yard. In addition to the greenhouse being heated, he has a smaller house inside of it that is also heated with a ceramic heat emitter set on a thermostat. You can certainly raise them in colder areas, but it does require a good bit of planning and work in order to create the right conditions. For anyone planning on getting one, be sure to plan for the long term, not just immediate needs.
I go over to their house to help out over there sometimes. Their compound is truly amazing. Wonderful people too! 😁 (If you read this comment Juline) Hi! Its Ariana. It's so cool you got to do this!
We also use pumpkins as a mild "natural dewormer" in the goat community - not particularly useful in serious cases (have done before and after fecals to compare) but a wonderful addition to any comprehensive care program.
Watching in 2021 as soon as you made your favourite band from the 90s joke an ad came on for throat lozenges and the quote was "throat drier than a dad joke, try soothers". You nailed it internet gods
Thank you for sharing I have two African sulcata tortoises What attracted me most to the African sulcata tortoise when I first saw one 10 years ago, was they have around their shells beautiful patterns of feathers very amazing
The light brown 1 is named Juno, the dark 1 is name Gangus, and the red 1 is named Jack. They had another dog like Jack but he sadly passed away at a very young age.😢 He was 18 months old and died from a disease passed down through genes in his family. (That is at least what i think Juline said to me when she told me and my family that he had passed away)He was an absolute sweet heart.😔
Wow, those paradox sulcatas are something else, pretty cool how they're formed. I love giant tortoises, incredible animules. Definitely on the dream baby list.
Oh my...beautiful!!! We have gopher tortoises on the property beside us and we go out and check on them and of course take the garden scraps too them in the summer.
You have always hands down the most knowledgeable person on any reptiles.. You go to where the reptile originates from and see the conditions far as heat humidity ETC. and you share that with us and then you take and use your husbandry the exact way they would be in the wild I appreciate all the educational information you do.. #RESPECT
There’s a lot of us that just don’t get that 🤔 he should have his own tv show for sure. He’s so interesting to watch, like a walking animal encyclopedia ha and he’s got the best personality... cracks me up. I just love him!!!
There’s a lot of us that just don’t get that 🤔 he should have his own tv show for sure. He’s so interesting to watch, like a walking animal encyclopedia ha and he’s got the best personality... cracks me up. I just love him!!!
Dude!! Chimara!! How wicked cool man. Thanks for the amazing tour Amazing couple Hey looks like you're getting some of our rain up here! We're having crazy flooding right now :O #RattleOn
I can't wait to get one of these guys in march! I'm already growing food for my bearded dragon, adding a blueberry bush for him next spring. He is a good boy, good to know I can grow food for the tortoise too. I'm hoping to start doing herp education programs too.
I always say the biggest thing about owning tortoises is prepair to have a new caretaker when you pass away because 9 times outta 10 that thing is gonna live longer than you are. They are absolutely beautiful especially the chimara one.
Beautiful explanation of a classic chimera. Love it. Lots of people use the term and never explain it. There is also a second kind in which it starts as one egg and a spontaneous mutation or abnormal chromosome count causes some of the cells to express differently (you see this a lot in humans with extra sex chromosomes, part of their body ends up xy and the rest xx, it gets found sometimes during organ transplant testing but otherwise you would never know it). There are also a couple of other forms but those are the main two. I once had a 50-50 split chimera in a Grey's tree frog. There are 2 wild froglet emergence colors (liveries), green and brown, this little one was split right down the middle. Sadly the two halves did not mature evenly and in the days following emergence it was not able to eat and developed locomotion problems when one half outgrew the other so little Harlequin did not make it. It's body was donated to a university. But Chimeras are really something special, but not all that rare, you just don't see them much because unless there is a strong visual difference between the two components, the animal looks normal. I have also encountered reproductive chimera, where an animal throws babies of a morph it does not express itself :) or the bane of reptile breeders, the animal expresses a morph but never passes the genes on.
They seem so sweet and awesome! I feel like our backyard would be a good home with some modification, but if I did get one I'd try to adopt an adult who needs rehomed. I do worry about so many babies, that is a lot of space they need.
I bought my Sulcata "Methusala " from the Arizona Tortoise Compound... And she is AMAZING.. I live in Missouri and she is 1.5 years old , and already 6 lbs. After watching this I wonder if her father could be the Sudanese male because she is getting so huge so fast? Anyway they were great I reccomend them to anyone looking for a sulcata.
I love smashing pumpkins!!! I mean actually smashing them! I was in a 3 story building where I put them in a clear trash bag & would dropped them off the balcony to watch them splatter inside the bag 👍🏼👍🏼 🎃
I can’t imagine there being enough willing people to give proper homes to 2500 giant tortoises every year. My sulcata rescue is gonna be jumping in about 10 years.
Jacob Fowlkes I’m just gonna say it...sulcata breeding is out of control. The market is over saturated. Babies are going for $40 and that’s a big problem
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures just asking if you are going to look for the big sulcata in Florida I have seen on video that Florida has some of the darkest p.p. leopards
They are magnificent creatures, and I have a neighbor who has spent thousands outfitting his backyard to keep a rescue, but then I see college kids and younger buying babies at reptile shows because they are so "cute"........
He has one 95 lb rescue. One third of his yard grows kale and other greens, the rest he had to fortify with barriers so Hannibal (its name) won't break free to the rest of the neighborhood. A lot of money went into building a heated shelter it can spend winter and come and go as he pleases. As a cost cutting measure, he was able to sell his lawnmower ;). From NC.@@davkaufmansreptileadventures
2,500 a year? There’s a market for that? How many Sulcatas are looking for homes now and how many are receiving anywhere near proper care? I may be ill-informed, but that seems outrageous.
They r very popular!! Just in Florida alone u have so many ppl wanting them. After watching a lot of videos on them I can see it takes a lot to provide good care for these beasts ha
Matt Hampel I totally see your point. I know there are a bunch in rescues and I am sure many die from improper care. They are over produced, which cannot be argued, just look at how cheap they are to buy. How can anyone justify breeding them in mass when they are such a difficult species to keep in all but a few select areas of the country.
I am building a outdoor habitat for our newly homed sulcata and I am building him a small pond and I want to add some little goldfish and I can’t see no where if that’s ok!?
Very interesting and informative. I see they are on the vulnerable list. Since they are desert Tortoises they will flourish in any sandy hot dry environment. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_spurred_tortoise Enjoy your Christmas.
I love tortosies they are cool souls to have, I have two a Herman and a Russian and I don't mean any disrespect but I think the Sulcata shouldn't be one you should be able to adopt because they get way to big and they live very very long. I mean its a 3 or 4 generation pet which is cool. But its a HUGE responsibility that goes on for what 180 years? They should be free
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Ha....Smashing pumpkins! The 90’s were great. Thanks for showcasing Andrew, Juline and their Tortoise Compound!
Yeah they were
Me and my family helped smash the pumpkins. It was a LOT more work then we thought it was going to be!😂
I have a four year old sulcata that I purchased from ATC a little more than four years ago. I live in Tennessee where it can get quite cold in the winter. He lives in my heated green house, and he has his own fenced in yard. In addition to the greenhouse being heated, he has a smaller house inside of it that is also heated with a ceramic heat emitter set on a thermostat. You can certainly raise them in colder areas, but it does require a good bit of planning and work in order to create the right conditions. For anyone planning on getting one, be sure to plan for the long term, not just immediate needs.
That is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Me and my family are good friends with Juline and Andy. They gave us our 2 tortoises as well. They are literally the nicest people EVER!
wow! now *thats* dedication. tortoises are easily neglected bc ppl don’t understand the responsibility. i love what you’re doing
Oh i know where u r....im a Shelly...
Ive been to Sudan...but im a Vet....
I go over to their house to help out over there sometimes. Their compound is truly amazing. Wonderful people too! 😁 (If you read this comment Juline) Hi! Its Ariana. It's so cool you got to do this!
Very cool!
Great Video! (Research, Research , Research, growing your own food and Smashing Pumpkins).
Exactly!
We also use pumpkins as a mild "natural dewormer" in the goat community - not particularly useful in serious cases (have done before and after fecals to compare) but a wonderful addition to any comprehensive care program.
Even though they are huge, I just think those sulcata are so cute 🥰🥰
They really are!
Watching in 2021 as soon as you made your favourite band from the 90s joke an ad came on for throat lozenges and the quote was "throat drier than a dad joke, try soothers". You nailed it internet gods
Thank you for sharing I have two African sulcata tortoises What attracted me most to the African sulcata tortoise when I first saw one 10 years ago, was they have around their shells beautiful patterns of feathers very amazing
His dogs are too cute! “Pay attention to us too!”
They followed us everywhere. Really cute!
The light brown 1 is named Juno, the dark 1 is name Gangus, and the red 1 is named Jack. They had another dog like Jack but he sadly passed away at a very young age.😢 He was 18 months old and died from a disease passed down through genes in his family. (That is at least what i think Juline said to me when she told me and my family that he had passed away)He was an absolute sweet heart.😔
Dāv Kaufman's Reptile Adventures the sulcatas are great too but the dogs are in almost every shot. It’s very amusing.
Wow, those paradox sulcatas are something else, pretty cool how they're formed. I love giant tortoises, incredible animules. Definitely on the dream baby list.
I do too!
I’ve watch this vid many’s times and love it ❤🐢
Oh my...beautiful!!! We have gopher tortoises on the property beside us and we go out and check on them and of course take the garden scraps too them in the summer.
Awesome!
Ugh I can't wait to be in the position to be able to take on such large magnifcent creatures. Brilliant video today!
You have always hands down the most knowledgeable person on any reptiles.. You go to where the reptile originates from and see the conditions far as heat humidity ETC. and you share that with us and then you take and use your husbandry the exact way they would be in the wild I appreciate all the educational information you do.. #RESPECT
Thank you Keith, I really appreciate that! Just wait til you see what's coming soon from Thailand!
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures I can't wait..again thank you for truly great content..
That chimera! I’ve never seen anything like it before. Thanks for sharing 🐢
Neither had I! Incredible, huh?
Wow! That Chimera is awesome! Great video as usual. Why you don't have more subs and views I'll never know.
Thanks Martin!
There’s a lot of us that just don’t get that 🤔 he should have his own tv show for sure. He’s so interesting to watch, like a walking animal encyclopedia ha and he’s got the best personality... cracks me up. I just love him!!!
There’s a lot of us that just don’t get that 🤔 he should have his own tv show for sure. He’s so interesting to watch, like a walking animal encyclopedia ha and he’s got the best personality... cracks me up. I just love him!!!
Dav:"Your not very bright are you"
Tortoise: my mom says im special
Too late, I already purchased a baby sulcata 2 years ago and we are attached to her. Her name is Ruth. I even wrote a song about her.
These were my first tortoises and now I have 3! It's about time you do a video on them! Great facility as well!
Nice!
Very cute babies! Tortoise are so amazing. Didn’t realize they were bull dozers. Such cute little old man faces. 👍
They are bulldozers crossed with tanks :)
Awesome video! I love my albino sulcatas!!
Great video! Dav you have the best vibe! The content on your channel is so enjoyable!
Thank you!
Love the channel ❤❤🐢🐢❤️❤️
Dude!!
Chimara!!
How wicked cool man.
Thanks for the amazing tour
Amazing couple
Hey looks like you're getting some of our rain up here!
We're having crazy flooding right now :O
#RattleOn
I know right? I've never seen it rain that much there actually
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures hot dam, I know they need it, but crazy when it shows up that hard
I can't wait to get one of these guys in march! I'm already growing food for my bearded dragon, adding a blueberry bush for him next spring. He is a good boy, good to know I can grow food for the tortoise too. I'm hoping to start doing herp education programs too.
I always say the biggest thing about owning tortoises is prepair to have a new caretaker when you pass away because 9 times outta 10 that thing is gonna live longer than you are. They are absolutely beautiful especially the chimara one.
Very true!
I’m the 1,000th like🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm about to get my first Sudanese Sulcata soon. This is such good info!
You know, Dāv, I used to live in Phoenix. Great shorts weather down there. 😜
Really great shorts weather!
Beautiful explanation of a classic chimera. Love it. Lots of people use the term and never explain it. There is also a second kind in which it starts as one egg and a spontaneous mutation or abnormal chromosome count causes some of the cells to express differently (you see this a lot in humans with extra sex chromosomes, part of their body ends up xy and the rest xx, it gets found sometimes during organ transplant testing but otherwise you would never know it). There are also a couple of other forms but those are the main two. I once had a 50-50 split chimera in a Grey's tree frog. There are 2 wild froglet emergence colors (liveries), green and brown, this little one was split right down the middle. Sadly the two halves did not mature evenly and in the days following emergence it was not able to eat and developed locomotion problems when one half outgrew the other so little Harlequin did not make it. It's body was donated to a university.
But Chimeras are really something special, but not all that rare, you just don't see them much because unless there is a strong visual difference between the two components, the animal looks normal. I have also encountered reproductive chimera, where an animal throws babies of a morph it does not express itself :) or the bane of reptile breeders, the animal expresses a morph but never passes the genes on.
Thanks! Glad you liked the explanation. There's a lot of confusion over what a chimera is as apposed to paradox.
Good video thanks
I have a redfoot from ATC, would have been nice to get a glimpse of his other tortoises.
WoW !! HUGE tortoise 🐢
Wonder if that's how Billy Corgan got the name for his band? 🎃 LoL !
I love to see chimeras and paradoxs of all kinds.
Rumor has it that exactly how he named his band!
Great video!
Thanks!
lol that smashing pumpkins reference. i see u, dāv
lol
Another good option for colder climates is to build a huge green house!!
Good idea!
Research is key to getting any reptile
Truth!
Really interesting! Shelled Bulldozers!
Exactly!
They seem so sweet and awesome! I feel like our backyard would be a good home with some modification, but if I did get one I'd try to adopt an adult who needs rehomed. I do worry about so many babies, that is a lot of space they need.
And Yep 23 years later my shelly is a spring chicken....
Smashing Pumpkins...lol...
i have two two yr old sulcatas and i live near a pumpkin farm, hopefully i can score after Halloween!
I bought my Sulcata "Methusala " from the Arizona Tortoise Compound... And she is AMAZING.. I live in Missouri and she is 1.5 years old , and already 6 lbs. After watching this I wonder if her father could be the Sudanese male because she is getting so huge so fast? Anyway they were great I reccomend them to anyone looking for a sulcata.
I love smashing pumpkins!!! I mean actually smashing them! I was in a 3 story building where I put them in a clear trash bag & would dropped them off the balcony to watch them splatter inside the bag 👍🏼👍🏼 🎃
Nice!
My sulcata tortoise is not eating as much as he ate last time, any advice? Please help
Try to join a forum on them, keep asking around, good luck. Glad to see ppl care enough to ask.
I love this video 😍
Glad to hear that :)
I can’t imagine there being enough willing people to give proper homes to 2500 giant tortoises every year. My sulcata rescue is gonna be jumping in about 10 years.
Indeed you will
That nunber does seem too high giving all the homeless giant torts there are
Jacob Fowlkes I’m just gonna say it...sulcata breeding is out of control. The market is over saturated. Babies are going for $40 and that’s a big problem
Im not really involved with them but i can see how your right for sure.
It's on the vulnerable list
First comment squad BOIIIIIIIISSSS good video btw
Nice!
Great video of the tortoise can you do one on the pardalis pardalis South African giant tortoise for all of us that have them
I'll look into that for sure
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures just asking if you are going to look for the big sulcata in Florida I have seen on video that Florida has some of the darkest p.p. leopards
@@commercialelectrician133 I'd like to do that next time I'm there
U should get 1 they are kool love my lil guy
That's pretty awesome. 2500 a year produced. WOW. What do they do with them all? Pet trade? Zoo's?
It crazy how something so small become something huge
I just learned that tortoises only dig when they don’t have enough shade and variable temp zones!
I want them big already. Not a small one. I'm sure the small ones are cute and watching them grow would be great. Honestly I want them huge already.
They are magnificent creatures, and I have a neighbor who has spent thousands outfitting his backyard to keep a rescue, but then I see college kids and younger buying babies at reptile shows because they are so "cute"........
That's very cool of your neighbor! How many does he have?
He has one 95 lb rescue. One third of his yard grows kale and other greens, the rest he had to fortify with barriers so Hannibal (its name) won't break free to the rest of the neighborhood. A lot of money went into building a heated shelter it can spend winter and come and go as he pleases. As a cost cutting measure, he was able to sell his lawnmower ;). From NC.@@davkaufmansreptileadventures
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2,500 a year? There’s a market for that? How many Sulcatas are looking for homes now and how many are receiving anywhere near proper care? I may be ill-informed, but that seems outrageous.
Yes there is
There's a market for everything.
They r very popular!! Just in Florida alone u have so many ppl wanting them. After watching a lot of videos on them I can see it takes a lot to provide good care for these beasts ha
Matt Hampel I totally see your point. I know there are a bunch in rescues and I am sure many die from improper care. They are over produced, which cannot be argued, just look at how cheap they are to buy. How can anyone justify breeding them in mass when they are such a difficult species to keep in all but a few select areas of the country.
I want one so bad but before i get one im learning literally everything i can before i rescue one
Are they able to eat purple fountain grass?
Smashing Pumpkins perhaps ?
I have a 4 yr old sulcata tortoise and it's true research resurch resurch. And every year more research
love those spiky feet , that morph scutes pattern remind me of limpets shell
Oh my goodness
I am building a outdoor habitat for our newly homed sulcata and I am building him a small pond and I want to add some little goldfish and I can’t see no where if that’s ok!?
Make sure its not real deep they cannot swim.
Coincidence I was thinking about getting a sulcata
Let’s see savanna monitors bro
Working on doing an in the wild video on them
Do you have to worry about the albino torts getting sunburned? Something I have been wondering!
They have lots of places there to get out of the sun if they need to.
I have a Sulcata and a AZ Desert, it’s easy for me here in YUMA Az
Sweet!
Amazing place but waayyyy too many babies. I'm rethinking breeding mine... There's no way there's 2500 ideal homes out there...
There is actually. We have to remember that the number of reptile keepers globally is well in the millions.
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures but how many of those "reptile keepers" are giving proper care and enclosures?
I totally agree
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I wish i could buy one 😭😭😭
They bend rebar 😳
Yeah they're cute alright. My friend has one in his basement and boy his sulcata destroy and crack all the walls and tiles in that room, lol
dang 2500 sulcata per year.
I want one... its hard to get one in here..
Where is here?
I have a male that is not dome,is 21 years old and is 34 inches long and weighs 251 pounds.
English is not my first language, is that how is pronounced chimera? I always say something sounding like Kimera
Do you guys pick up soak a lot of turtles I found one and nobody's claiming him and I cannot care for him I live in South Carolina
Once there in the basement, hope you dont need to take it back up there stairs🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Without an escalator that is :)
Very interesting and informative. I see they are on the vulnerable list. Since they are desert Tortoises they will flourish in any sandy hot dry environment. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_spurred_tortoise
Enjoy your Christmas.
Will they eat aloe? Do you know?
Is it kai-mara or shy-mara to correctly say chimera?
I've heard it pronounced both ways but a lot of people have already corrected me, so next time I'll be pronouncing it Kai-mara.
OMG....
I wonder how much money Dāv makes off of rainbow mealworms.
Tristan Simpson lol i wonder that too. he got me though bc i live in LA and i got some from their compton store
Glad to hear that ina!
Um that one that was flipped over is not in good shape if not dead. 😢
Chimaira is actually pronounced (ki-mara)
Any sulcata albino for selling?
Contact them on FB and I'm sure they do!
I want 10 lol
Don't know wat it is cuz still baby
I love tortosies they are cool souls to have, I have two a Herman and a Russian and I don't mean any disrespect but I think the Sulcata shouldn't be one you should be able to adopt because they get way to big and they live very very long. I mean its a 3 or 4 generation pet which is cool. But its a HUGE responsibility that goes on for what 180 years? They should be free
I like that, they are cool souls :)
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures Thank you their beautiful creatures that don't have a correct word for how beautiful and magnificent they truly are
First comment squad BOIIIIIIIISSSS good video btw