About MeI am married with two daughters and I am a custodian of the countryside (farmer), not the best profession to be in at the moment as everything we produce we sell at a loss. We have a flock of pedigree Suffolk sheep and breed rams for sale, a commercial sheep flock and we grow cereals. Several years ago depressed by the state of agriculture, I decided to look for an alternative enterprise that I could use my existing skills on, breeding animals. What about tortoises, I thought. Everybody used to have a tortoise years ago but since the ban on the importation of wild caught tortoises ( good thing too) in 1984 there is a shortage. So I started reading everything I could about tortoises every night to gain the knowledge I needed. Then the slow process of acquiring breeding adults, building accommodation, then waiting for that first egg to hatch. We now have a breeding colony of Testudo Hernanni (hermanns) and Testudo graeca (spur-thigh) tortoises.
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