Can turtles hibernate in the garden?
Is that possible? Theoretically, they bury themselves. Would they freeze to death in our winter, or would that be okay?
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I know a family whose turtles have been buried in the garden for many years. I take no guarantee that yours will survive this!
You shouldn’t let the turtles outwinter. In contrast to habitat, the temperatures here are much faster. So if during the Starre in January nice weather days let the skid buds buddle to the earth’s surface, the temperature drops quickly. Because of the cold, the chick is not in the position of being able to dig deep enough again and would freeze.
A further danger is fress enemies, which, both during the star and generally unfortunately, still get too little attention to the holders. Look at this link http://www.terrarium-schildkroete.de/gehegesicherung-fressfeinde.html
There are turtles that are overwhelmed outside. Be it because the holder wants to handle it this way or because he has not found the turtle. It’s all right and the turtle comes back in spring without prejudice. Often, however, as said, the turtles do not survive it or only with damage/ injury caused by frost or enemies.
I would therefore always recommend to allow an overwintering in the open air only under protected conditions, i.e. in an isolated overwintering pit, whose cover heating, controlled with thermo timer or the like, protects against frost.
lg
It’s on your garden. If the turtle can bury itself in a large compost or foliage pile or in a shelter, it’s not a problem. One of my Greek men has overwhelmed 4 of the last 5 winters somewhere in the enclosure. I have no idea where??
But also my other two males stare out in the winter in the early beet, which I spanned with leaves full and with thick tarpaulin. My wives winter in the fridge.
My parents had turtles as a child, they then put them into the cellar in winter in refrigerator boxes with straw. In the garden, I wouldn’t let them be overwintered if it gets too cold, or they wake up in between. In the basement, the temperature is still “constantly cool” than outside, sometimes in the middle of winter it is already as warm as in spring for a few days!
In order to overwinter land turtles, I recommend the issue of the current reptila (No. 103) there, using the example of the Greek land turtle, to explain the various wintering measures.
LG Salty1
Why do you ask? Or do you already have turtles? Water or land turtles of any kind? Some of my turtles are wintering in the garden under the sheltered breakfast, others overwintering elsewhere. Depending on the species, what the animals need is different.
Whether it’s theoretical is uninteresting, you don’t know how the weather will be. Then there’s no snow for two days and they’ll wake up. Better let in the refrigerator.
Cold temperatures and lack of food supply force the alternating hot vertebrates to overlast the cold season in the so-called winter stars. In this state, they remain restless, the body temperature is equal to the deep temperature of the environment. Heartbeat, breathing and metabolism are greatly reduced. All Mediterranean land turtle species (Greek land turtles due to the low winter temperatures in their habitat keep a winter star in the wild. This is part of the natural annual cycle of these turtles. The southerly and warmer the proliferation area, the shortest it falls out the winter stars. It is especially short for Maurian turtles from North Africa. In the warmest regions, the winter stars are gradually interrupted to absorb the warming sun rays for a few hours. On average it takes about 5 months, from mid-October to mid-March. Interestingly, in the spring the males often wake up in front of the females. Breitrand turtles later enter the winter stars as Greek land
turtles and wake up earlier in spring.
This is all you should know. http://www.sigs.ch/productimages/merkblattueberwinterung.pdf