An awesome teacher sent me 16 drawings of Helix that her first graders made for me. They each wrote me a personal letter telling me how much they loved Helix gets His Wheels, and that they couldn’t wait for the second book Helix Rolls Into a Sleepover. So guess what? I sent them each their […]
Tortstork and theTheTurtleRoom ran a 72 hour Helix Thon. For every book sold off Tortstork.com, Tortstork would donate $5 to theTurtleRoom. 24 books were sold in the 72 hour “Helix Thon,” and $120 was donated to tTR. Helix Gets His Wheels is a great book to help children become interested in tortoises. The last few […]
Lots of people easily mistaken a Moroccan tortoise as a Moroccan greek tortoise. Its pretty simple to realize why. The scientific name is Testudo greaca marokkensis. The funny thing is, they aren’t even from Greece, they are native to Northern Africa. They are distinctly different than Greek tortoises. The babies are super unique looking as […]
Helix has a children’s book! How exciting is that? The pre-sale for this book will be in the beginning of November. I am waiting on an Amazon link before I launch the exact date. If you’re interested in getting a signed copy, please email me [email protected]. Here are two reviews that have already come in.. […]
Helix hatched on July 31st, 2019. it was pretty deformed to the point where i thought i was going to have to euthanize it. Though as the days passed, Helix was making “strides.” He was scooting all over the incubator. I moved Helix to a growing container, like i do with all other hatchlings, and […]
Tortstork was honored to be highlighted in the August edition of Neighbors Magazine. It discusses my goals for colony assurance (captive breeding). It also talks about how I envision the hatch a tortoise instahatch egg to one day help the conservation of these amazing animals.
Some of our baby Egyptian eggs are starting to hatch. I was hoping these would be instahatch eggs and hatch in some lucky person’s incubator. This Egyptian egg was laid on 5/9/19. It piped on 7/31/19 and slowly is emerging at a tortoise’s pace. This little tortoise weighs around 4 grams.
Another Hypo redfoot has joined the future of Tortstork. This gorgeous little redfoot will be added to the hypo breeding colony we are building. This amazing orange/red baby is a great addition to our other hypo’s. Redfoots take 7 to 8 years to mature to breeding size, so we are many years away from a successful […]
The 100th instahatch egg was an Egyptian tortoise egg!!! It was shipped to Gainsville, Florida, 1,000 miles away. It was laid on 4/20/19, shipped on 6/27/19, delivered on 6/28/19, and started to hatch later that afternoon. It is doing fantastic and is super active.
Instahatch egg #83 was laid on 4/6/19, shipped to Tulsa, Oklahoma on 6/3/19, delivered on 6/4/19 and started to hatch on 6/22/19. 18 days after delivery. Talk about a stressful few weeks. I was confident that it was going to hatch because the customer kept sending me updates of candling pictures and it was progressing […]