Rearing a baby tortoise does require a degree of commitment to its welfare and will need some time and care and a little initial expense to create the right conditions.

This ready to print, 28 page booklet will help give you a picture of what this entails.

A Guide to Rearing Mediterranean Tortoises covers the care of Testudo species, with special focus on hatchling and juvenile care.

It includes some fairly high resolution pictures, as well as some rather eye-boggling diagrams (!), so it is worth printing it on a setting a bit higher than plain paper. It is in Adobe Acrobat format (a .pdf file).It takes a few minutes to download, so please be patient.

If you don't have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, download it (free).

And hey! If you can get access to one of the new all-singing, all-dancing photocopying machines, you can feed it in at one end, and get a *stapled A4 booklet* at the other.....not in colour, but very handy all the same!

I hope you will find it useful and will be happy to answer any queries you may have.

With best wishes to you and your torts from Lin King.

*This is copyrighted material but may be copied for the  purpose of education and tortoise welfare.

Linda E. King, July 2001