When I was young, I wanted a sulcata, but after doing a TON of research, I figured out it was going to be WAY outside my comfort zone. Still love tortoises, though, so I adopted a native Sonoran Desert tortoise from AZGF. Because of Socrates, I turned my back yard into a beautiful desert botanical garden. They don't get big, so I don't need heavy equipment, and his personality is just so cool. The best part is that my dream of having a tortoise came true, and he's native to this habitat, so it's pretty easy to take care of him. Socrates is my little garden guardian. :) I think it's so important to do the research. Not everyone realizes what it takes to keep exotic pets. Thanks so much for sharing this video!
I got one when I was young. Very thankful she’s a small female lol. Not yet to be fully grown or even close, 9 years later lol. I have no intentions of abandoning my garden grazing pal
Hmmm, I'm not sure about his motives. "Had 6000 of them but we shipped them off overseas" I think he may be collecting them and selling shipping them off to Asia as food. Not exactly a sanctuary.
This was one of our favorite videos. We have watched it multiple times. The knowledge is remarkable! Thanks for sharing the great times and not so great times with huge reptiles! We adopt and keep sulcatas, some are very large. The need for programs like ours is huge here in Florida. We would not be prepared for so many things we encounter if it were not for your honest approach.
Have had small tortoises but just got a 6" round Sulcata! I call her Ithska. Watching you all the time. Not planning on breeding nor any others. Your videos truly help us all learn what it takes to provide great homes for these tortoises!
Wow ur videos are all interesting!!!! This one very very very educational !! I’ve watched ur video with all my attention. Very impressive! Love this video ! 👍🏻 great job guys!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I never knew sulcatas got so big until I started watching your channel, and now that I know that, I cannot believe there are SO MANY people who get these animals. A lot of the pet youtubers I watch have them, they sell them readily at pet stores, people buy them for their kids. Like...why?? I feel like they are an animal that few people will have the ability to care for properly. I feel like the vast majority of people who buy them either don't know how big they get or they know, but they buy them with the mentality that they can just get rid of them when they get too big which is a terrible way to go into owning an animal 😭 I don't understand how sulcatas have gotten to be such popular pets when there are some really beautiful and amazing species of torts that stay small!
It is sad, but don’t look at the bad. My dad let me get a sulcata when I was 11. We knew what we were getting into… but I’m 20 now and my tortoise is still happy and healthy. Had to learn over time for some things but never anything bad happened. Not every kid was as interested as I was though.
This!!! Our neighbor that keeps letting their cats have kittens in our yard- has also let loose a bunch of baby sulcatas! One wandered into my house and the other my other neighbor found in her driveway. Everytime I go over to tell them he needs to be more responsible and do something about these wild animals he tells me "I'll think about it." I tried calling animal control and they said they don't service our area. Which I didn't even know was a thing?!! I really don't know what to do. They keep just letting their animals reproduce and kittens, tortoises, and puppies are just spawning from their house, wandering around, and then usually get ran over. 😔 They don't care.
I love your channel and I love sulcatas even more, so I don’t no how I just now found this video. Some people might disagree with what I’m about to say, but I hope my sulcata gets the size of these ones. Mines really big but not nearly the size of those ones, mine is about 70 pounds and 10 years old but then again I haven’t weighed him in a long time and when I bought him the breeder had guessed that he was five. He wasn’t sure because he had a very similar set up in Arizona as this guy in the video does so he couldn’t keep track of them all. And he had said that the sulcata I bought from him had actually stayed in a burrow the entire winter before I bought him because he didn’t even no he was in there.
Protrusions are sometimes growth patterns from early wounds from the wild or captivity. Our Female Sulcata was with a family that kept her part time in the garage in a plastic tub and the heat lamp started a fire and she was burned and survived. Now she has upgrowth on her shell edge and strange striations with reshaping from healing and repair growing. All the black burnt parts have finally regenerated and are completely gone from her body and shell now though after 7 or 8 years. They rehomed her with our family once this tragedy happened.
Wow, this guy's turtle ranch is absolutely incredible! That's so cool that there's a man in Arizona who's got a ranch that can process 3,000 turtles. From massive 300 pound beasts all the way down to 2-3 inch hatchlings
conspiracies are just great stories I bet he rides an ATV around in summer to keep an eye on all these tortoises. It gets super hot. There’s a lot of desert out there. Happy to see someone doing such a good thing out there
I live in AZ too with a huge rescue sulcata (she just wondered up to my door one day we looked for a year for her owners no one ever claimed her I think they left her in the road in front of my house or something). This place is so neat. I thought my girl had a big pin!!!! I'd love to see it.
Love living in Arizona. My wife and I want to purchase a few acres soon to open a desert tortoise and sulcata tortoise rescue. Being in the vet field and working with fish and game, we receive a lot of them. Great video
@@danicarodriguez7770 Its a rescue for the tortoises usually coming from people like you. How does that even make sense to you when they're the ones that will pay for the animals care, food, needs?
Poor baby! I know it happens.. I just hate them hurting because I love them! I hope he heals up fast! 🐢💚 Those are some serious burrows!! He needs a massive pond right in the middle!😁
I live in New River Arizona. Periodically neighbors will lose a sulcata from it digging out under a fence or the like, and then it's all hands on deck in the neighborhood until we find it. It's really scary if they get out during a rainy period, which rarely but occasionally does happen in winter.
Pet stores and sellers online definitely do not show pictures or tell people how large they actually get and they're selling them for $75 on some websites this is why so many get abandoned
i recently got 2 sulcatas from an old lady who cant keep them anymore, thay are 5 years old and already pretty bulky, im not sure i know what ive gotten myself into lol
Absolutely love your videos , amazing not only for seeing the reptiles but the info makes it even more interesting, thank you and look forward to watching more
I was about to move to Arizona because I refuse to get rid of my sulcata tortoise. Any engineering ideas for owning a full grown one in Delaware? I would rather leave my partner than get rid of my Sulcata. So I'm in for life
We have one here in New Mexico. We built a wood shelter with the plastic flaps and placed it over the entrance to the burrow and reinforced the area over the first 3-4 ft of the burrow (the most fragile part as its closest to the surface) so it never collapses. Then I made an IOT(internet of things) heater controller that runs a 500 watt heater and a heat lamp. The controller will look up the weather forecast to determine if the box at the entrance needs to be heated, live readouts to a webpage on the temp and heater state. It also emails an alert if the power cuts or the temp drops too low. This way it can be plugged into a GFCI outlet without risk of power cutting and we don't know it. We haven't ever had to force him into his house to get him out of the cold, he will come out for short spurts even when its snows but when he wants heat he has to go back to his house and he knows it.
Good call on the wound I kept box turtles and they aren't that big but they can be feisty too Hope the sulcata heals up ok please update his condition and get new photos ,thanks in advance
Good work guys!!! Not cruel when its life or death for that poor baby. And quite frankly this gentleman knew what he was doing, knew how to handle thas t equipment, and was not at all wreckless achieving their goal.
awesome video I have two baby sulcta torts that are about a week old and thanks to kamp kenans vids on how to take care of them they are healthy eating and drinking plenty thanks Kenan.
Seriously. I don't get why SO MANY people get sulcatas. You know the vast majority of those people don't have any intention of doing what it takes to keep an animal that size.
This video talked me out of it! I didn't realise that they dig so much. If I ever get the acreage then I'd really love to have a pair of Aldabras. They are the friendliest of the giant tortoises.
Saw a vet who had a tortoise with an overgrown beak. They sedated him then used an electric spinning file. Fab video, thanks for sharing 🇬🇧 I have a 5 yr old male
Wow, beautiful, I rescued one 8yrs ago, she was in bad shape, her shell was pyramid badly and you can see her shell move when she would breathe, now she is good shell is hard again and she loves food again. Not sure how old she is, compared to your guys, shes really small.they are beautiful creatures, unfortunately i live in canada, so my guys get to go out in summer months, and indoors in winter months, dont know what i will do when shes to big to carry in and out🤣
Best informative video! Two strong men? One tortoise? Trust me, I am convinced to stick with the Greeks and the Leopards. Lesson learned... Research the worst part of caring for a species before diving in.
sebern2 Very true. People who rush to own the wrong tortoise end up usually needing to rehome them because they get too big or they live in the wrong climate
Have you ever tried using the glue that they use in surgeries. Once the wound has healed the glue just disintegrates... It would be better than trying to stitch it thru the shell.
When I was young, I wanted a sulcata, but after doing a TON of research, I figured out it was going to be WAY outside my comfort zone. Still love tortoises, though, so I adopted a native Sonoran Desert tortoise from AZGF. Because of Socrates, I turned my back yard into a beautiful desert botanical garden. They don't get big, so I don't need heavy equipment, and his personality is just so cool. The best part is that my dream of having a tortoise came true, and he's native to this habitat, so it's pretty easy to take care of him. Socrates is my little garden guardian. :)
I think it's so important to do the research. Not everyone realizes what it takes to keep exotic pets. Thanks so much for sharing this video!
I WANT A DESERT TORTOISE SO BAD 😭
I got one when I was young. Very thankful she’s a small female lol. Not yet to be fully grown or even close, 9 years later lol. I have no intentions of abandoning my garden grazing pal
Yea, i just got a sulcata tortoise😅
Wow, these tortoises are so lucky to have this guy taking care of them. He must really love them to go through this kind of trouble.
Dude is watching his friend get dug out and flipped on his back while enjoying a nice pumpkin.
Hmmm, I'm not sure about his motives. "Had 6000 of them but we shipped them off overseas" I think he may be collecting them and selling shipping them off to Asia as food. Not exactly a sanctuary.
@@jbaldwin185
What are you talking about?
@@jbaldwin185 you drunk? Asian people didnt eat sulcata
i realize it is kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to stream new series online ?
@Ronnie Castiel i dunno atm I've been using Flixportal. just google for it:) -pedro
This was one of our favorite videos. We have watched it multiple times. The knowledge is remarkable! Thanks for sharing the great times and not so great times with huge reptiles! We adopt and keep sulcatas, some are very large. The need for programs like ours is huge here in Florida. We would not be prepared for so many things we encounter if it were not for your honest approach.
Hey Kenan, do you have an update on this poor guy? You guys did the right thing, I hope he's healing up!
Have had small tortoises but just got a 6" round Sulcata! I call her Ithska. Watching you all the time. Not planning on breeding nor any others. Your videos truly help us all learn what it takes to provide great homes for these tortoises!
POOR BIG BOY GIVE US A FOLLOW UP HOPE HE RECOVERS ASAP! LOVE WHAT YOU DO BROTHA! KAMP KENAN SUPPORTER FOR LIFE MAN!
1234567 NOT YELLING SORRY I TYPE AND WRITE IN ALL CAPS!
Turn off you caps
@@seanedwards6193 Turn off your caps. It causes people to take you less seriously.
Wow ur videos are all interesting!!!! This one very very very educational !! I’ve watched ur video with all my attention. Very impressive! Love this video ! 👍🏻 great job guys!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much 😀
I never knew sulcatas got so big until I started watching your channel, and now that I know that, I cannot believe there are SO MANY people who get these animals. A lot of the pet youtubers I watch have them, they sell them readily at pet stores, people buy them for their kids. Like...why?? I feel like they are an animal that few people will have the ability to care for properly. I feel like the vast majority of people who buy them either don't know how big they get or they know, but they buy them with the mentality that they can just get rid of them when they get too big which is a terrible way to go into owning an animal 😭 I don't understand how sulcatas have gotten to be such popular pets when there are some really beautiful and amazing species of torts that stay small!
It is sad, but don’t look at the bad. My dad let me get a sulcata when I was 11. We knew what we were getting into… but I’m 20 now and my tortoise is still happy and healthy. Had to learn over time for some things but never anything bad happened. Not every kid was as interested as I was though.
Indeed. My sulcata's night box and day shed cost me over $3k alone. Monthly upkeep is around $200 on average.
How many do you have and you could’ve got that done cheaper you know that
This!!! Our neighbor that keeps letting their cats have kittens in our yard- has also let loose a bunch of baby sulcatas! One wandered into my house and the other my other neighbor found in her driveway. Everytime I go over to tell them he needs to be more responsible and do something about these wild animals he tells me "I'll think about it." I tried calling animal control and they said they don't service our area. Which I didn't even know was a thing?!! I really don't know what to do. They keep just letting their animals reproduce and kittens, tortoises, and puppies are just spawning from their house, wandering around, and then usually get ran over. 😔 They don't care.
Sulcata tortoise are awesome large I like sulcata tortoise they are my dream pet
while the tortoise move back fastly, it is so cute 😆.. very shy☺
Keep us updated on the Sulcata
I used to work with Bob at st Joseph's hospital, hes a cool dude. Gentle giant
I love your channel and I love sulcatas even more, so I don’t no how I just now found this video. Some people might disagree with what I’m about to say, but I hope my sulcata gets the size of these ones. Mines really big but not nearly the size of those ones, mine is about 70 pounds and 10 years old but then again I haven’t weighed him in a long time and when I bought him the breeder had guessed that he was five. He wasn’t sure because he had a very similar set up in Arizona as this guy in the video does so he couldn’t keep track of them all. And he had said that the sulcata I bought from him had actually stayed in a burrow the entire winter before I bought him because he didn’t even no he was in there.
Protrusions are sometimes growth patterns from early wounds from the wild or captivity. Our Female Sulcata was with a family that kept her part time in the garage in a plastic tub and the heat lamp started a fire and she was burned and survived. Now she has upgrowth on her shell edge and strange striations with reshaping from healing and repair growing. All the black burnt parts have finally regenerated and are completely gone from her body and shell now though after 7 or 8 years. They rehomed her with our family once this tragedy happened.
Wow, this guy's turtle ranch is absolutely incredible! That's so cool that there's a man in Arizona who's got a ranch that can process 3,000 turtles. From massive 300 pound beasts all the way down to 2-3 inch hatchlings
conspiracies are just great stories I bet he rides an ATV around in summer to keep an eye on all these tortoises. It gets super hot. There’s a lot of desert out there. Happy to see someone doing such a good thing out there
What are you talking about?
These are tortoises not Turtles one lives on the land one lives in the water
glad to learn I do the right thing by closing up my tortz den with hay for our desert "winter"...i never thought to block the hole. thnx Kenan
I live in AZ too with a huge rescue sulcata (she just wondered up to my door one day we looked for a year for her owners no one ever claimed her I think they left her in the road in front of my house or something). This place is so neat. I thought my girl had a big pin!!!! I'd love to see it.
I’m redoing my pen. I’m looking for ideas
I'm about to get my first sulcata. Good to know this stuff!
Can you do a follow up on this tort please?
Love living in Arizona. My wife and I want to purchase a few acres soon to open a desert tortoise and sulcata tortoise rescue. Being in the vet field and working with fish and game, we receive a lot of them. Great video
Do u guys buy sulcatas
Skeebles Ruedas I hope you will do that. Arizona is awesome. These tortoises are awesome! Good luck
@@danicarodriguez7770 way to try and profit. Geez
@@danicarodriguez7770 Its a rescue for the tortoises usually coming from people like you. How does that even make sense to you when they're the ones that will pay for the animals care, food, needs?
We also live in Arizona and have 2 Sucatas, male& female, they were born in 2011, and are about 75lbs
They're so cute...I could never keep one of course, but I love them!
All i can say is, wow! Incredible video, and very informative. Thank you for the wisdom.
Yeah please do a follow up video
I love my Sulcata’s!! Love your channel man.
Great video. Poor baby I hope he gets well soon! ♡♡♡
That's Funny! Some kind of odd birthing. You can imagine Kenan trying to birth a Sulcata and Bob is the Obstetrician
Wow. Amazing work in keeping that Sulcata healthy and free of maggots. So interesting.
I have a 3 year old sulcata and as I learn more about caring for them I'm starting to realize what I got myself into xD
The_Wise_Tortoise yeah I'm new I've got 3 month old just got em not too long ago, any advice u got ?
Poor baby! I know it happens.. I just hate them hurting because I love them! I hope he heals up fast! 🐢💚 Those are some serious burrows!! He needs a massive pond right in the middle!😁
Amazing! Good work bud
Hahahah not nice but
I live in AZ and i am getting a sulcata. This was so helpful and cool.
I live in New River Arizona. Periodically neighbors will lose a sulcata from it digging out under a fence or the like, and then it's all hands on deck in the neighborhood until we find it. It's really scary if they get out during a rainy period, which rarely but occasionally does happen in winter.
Pet stores and sellers online definitely do not show pictures or tell people how large they actually get and they're selling them for $75 on some websites this is why so many get abandoned
Hi, u need to do 2nd part...this was great vid!!!
I think I’m happy with just my one Sulcata.
Kira K he didn’t ask if you wanted more than one
@@lovegymnastics8953 he was just saying after looking at this he doesn't need more.
same 😂 my one baby rescue is good enough for me!
Wow guys i have never seen such beautiful animal
i recently got 2 sulcatas from an old lady who cant keep them anymore, thay are 5 years old and already pretty bulky, im not sure i know what ive gotten myself into lol
what a great and instructive video thanks Kenan im so glad i found this youtube channel a 1.5 year ago
Hey Kenan I know its been like 9 months, but any chance you got an update on the tortoise? Thanks! :)
I’m totally happy with my 3 leopard tortoises ! 🍓🐢. 🥬🐢 🥦🐢
Hey .. everyone Moniee-Mon , is listening thanks for the info and videos. Keep doing what 'cha do best God bless you 🙏all
Absolutely love your videos , amazing not only for seeing the reptiles but the info makes it even more interesting, thank you and look forward to watching more
I was about to move to Arizona because I refuse to get rid of my sulcata tortoise. Any engineering ideas for owning a full grown one in Delaware? I would rather leave my partner than get rid of my Sulcata. So I'm in for life
Lol dang. What did you end up doing
So update? @J C
Update everyone!!! They sold it to me and I ate it!!! Was delicious!!
@J C hows it going with the sulcata?
We have one here in New Mexico. We built a wood shelter with the plastic flaps and placed it over the entrance to the burrow and reinforced the area over the first 3-4 ft of the burrow (the most fragile part as its closest to the surface) so it never collapses. Then I made an IOT(internet of things) heater controller that runs a 500 watt heater and a heat lamp. The controller will look up the weather forecast to determine if the box at the entrance needs to be heated, live readouts to a webpage on the temp and heater state. It also emails an alert if the power cuts or the temp drops too low. This way it can be plugged into a GFCI outlet without risk of power cutting and we don't know it.
We haven't ever had to force him into his house to get him out of the cold, he will come out for short spurts even when its snows but when he wants heat he has to go back to his house and he knows it.
Please can you reply and tell me how the big guy did after you dug him out got me worried. Poor guy 😑 thanks x
Marginated tortoise enclosure
I'm big
Keep the amazing videos coming!
WOW - THAT IS SOME KIND OF EDUCATION ON SULCATAS. I'd be wondering what the heck to do without a tractor. I feel bad for that guy, he needs help.
Good call on the wound
I kept box turtles and they aren't that big but they can be feisty too
Hope the sulcata heals up ok please update his condition and get new photos ,thanks in advance
12:00 what are they talking about clipping???
The tortious over grown beak, you can trim them just like you do a birds.
Extremely awesome video. Thank you for sharing.
21:14 tortoise continues to eat
loved this video, hope Bob's Sulcata Tortoise is going to be ok.
I have a sulcata tortoise and I also live in Arizona would you please give me some form of contact with Bill for tips and mentor-ing
What a wonderful video
You can really make things happen
Thank You
With Love
Barbra. X x
Any update? How did he recover?
How did the tortoise make out?????? Please let us know Or do an update pretty pretty please!!!!
Hey Kenan, what's the update on this story? Did the tortoise heal?
Beautiful animals. Love them
Where is Bob at in Arizona ? Nice set up. We got ours from Ballard tortious, in 2011
Good work guys!!! Not cruel when its life or death for that poor baby. And quite frankly this gentleman knew what he was doing, knew how to handle thas t equipment, and was not at all wreckless achieving their goal.
Guy straight sells these things.....
I didn't know that Sulcatas eat pumpkins. Gotta try it for my sulcata.
awesome video I have two baby sulcta torts that are about a week old and thanks to kamp kenans vids on how to take care of them they are healthy eating and drinking plenty thanks Kenan.
Every person thinking of getting a cute little wee sulcata baby ought to have to watch this video first. 🤔🤔🤔
Seriously. I don't get why SO MANY people get sulcatas. You know the vast majority of those people don't have any intention of doing what it takes to keep an animal that size.
@@shannonrickard8605 or feeding it the proper way to avoid pyramids and other problems!
This video talked me out of it! I didn't realise that they dig so much. If I ever get the acreage then I'd really love to have a pair of Aldabras. They are the friendliest of the giant tortoises.
I really enjoyed this video thanks for sharing
My heart just stopped. 300 living boulders with NO concept of their actual size. I can barely handle one.
Can you use super glue to fix the skin to the shell? Like you use on humans.
Saw a vet who had a tortoise with an overgrown beak. They sedated him then used an electric spinning file. Fab video, thanks for sharing 🇬🇧 I have a 5 yr old male
WOW! This was incredible!! Thank you!!
The odd birth canal comment killed me 😂🤣
thank you so mach!
Do you have any links for Bob Blome's place and his groups???
I just got my first sulcata a few months ago that are amazing animals & very smart . Is there any helpful tips for me
Wow, beautiful, I rescued one 8yrs ago, she was in bad shape, her shell was pyramid badly and you can see her shell move when she would breathe, now she is good shell is hard again and she loves food again. Not sure how old she is, compared to your guys, shes really small.they are beautiful creatures, unfortunately i live in canada, so my guys get to go out in summer months, and indoors in winter months, dont know what i will do when shes to big to carry in and out🤣
Is there an update vid? Curious if the tortoise healed up?
Awww poor thing. Great job guys
They are such awesome creatures.
Best informative video! Two strong men? One tortoise? Trust me, I am convinced to stick with the Greeks and the Leopards. Lesson learned... Research the worst part of caring for a species before diving in.
sebern2 Very true. People who rush to own the wrong tortoise end up usually needing to rehome them because they get too big or they live in the wrong climate
Have you ever tried using the glue that they use in surgeries. Once the wound has healed the glue just disintegrates... It would be better than trying to stitch it thru the shell.
Very informative
nice vid Kenan! Can you do a hibernating guide ? would be very helpfull for alot of people in this period of the year.
thx
What is the address of the cactus forest reptile ranch in Florence as. I want to go
Awesome video!!!
Love your channel
Amazing video
How Cool : ) Love it : )
Make sure that you let us know what ends up happening with the big fella.
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wtf does this mean. period?
@@zenithgreyz3017 it means they want to get a notification in case someone answers the question
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I am
Any update on the big injured sulcata?
Might be a stupid question but can you trim off the gular horns to reduce the likelihood of injury when males fight?
It's their bone. Not a good idea
“In mating season they can push each other through the block wall”- cement it then 😲
They can still push through it sulcatas are strong
They are strong ass tortoise's
I heard recently that sulcatas use land a mile radius from home base,to walk around and call thier yard. A mile. If they roamed wild.
That injured tortoise was not helping one bit!😂😂
Decomposing hay?
I live in Washington State and we do that for our suckling caves!
Keeps them toasty warm in the winter!
8:18 beautiful tortoise
Hope you make an update video eventually
Need some straps for the backhoe like awuascape does for the large rocks 😁
It’s getting cold in Texas! Can you gives us tutorial video of how we can keep our tortoises (my are redfoots) warm?
Eliezar Vallejo get them inside dude.
You'll need to bring them inside your home or have a heated and insolated building to put them in.
Just noticed that this was 5 years ago, what happened with him ?how long did it take for him to heal and what was his recovery like?
awesome video
where is this in Phoenix?
Can sulcata be with other tortoises??? Aneyscia