Secret Tortoise Garden Tour in the Heart of England!

[@catrinalopes5723]

Nothing more adorable than baby tortoise legs oh my goodness!!!

[@katmandudawn8417]

I am enjoying his joy and delight. It’s fun to learn and share someone’s passion. Love the strong “ we owe the animals and the world careful/ proper care” message. We are stewards, not owners.

[@koreyratering4662]

Absolutely one the best places I've seen. so natural and grown up. I love it.

[@zenten1266]

Tortoises are so cool.

[@LadyKEM]

Those baby tortoises are super cute 🤍

[@julierobertson148]

What a fantastic place! It's a magical place for me as a human; the tortoises must think they're royalty living in the best palace in the world. And it's encouraging that there are committed humans all over the world willing to take responsibility for these animals.

[@bkm2797]

What a magical location, and her Tortoises are in such great condition. The lushness of a well loved British garden is like no other. Chris, thank you to you and your host for an educational and lovely experience.🐢❤️👍

[@BenjamintheTortoise]

This sanctuary is beyond beautiful!! 💖 These tortoises are absolutely well-cared for and thriving... Much love to all of the researchers and caregivers making a difference!! 💕😊

[@jeanninelockridge5235]

What a gorgeous place!!! Those animals being treated with such respect is awesome.❤

[@SaltyApple435]

I just love seeing turtles and tortises.

[@mamachola6889]

Thank you Chris for sharing & showing us this beautiful Turtle 🐢 Sanctuary! It is so interesting to see the different species of turtles that thrive in England & Europe. It's so cool! You're smiling from ear-to-ear so I'm sure you're having a fantastic wonderful time! I hope you have more 🐢 Turtle adventures to come in The UK. Thank you so much for sharing this adventure with us ❤️

[@ladykimbers6549]

Being able to see & hear your excitement is funtastic! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. Such a beautiful & efficient facility for all the critters. Watching your vids fills my 🐢 love tank...

[@The_Crucible714]

In addition to leafy greens & dry grasses I’ve always fed my tortoises/semi-terrestrial turtles either whole or very large chunks of veggies (squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, etc.) Working for their food keeps their beaks nice and trim. Certain individuals also enjoy chewing on cuttlebone (sold for pet birds.) I occasionally add pulverized egg shells (chicken eggs) for add’l calcium so their shells grow smoothly.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Wow. I can't get over that place. The landscaping and the plants are beautiful. The Brits know their gardens

[@loriw2661]

What a fantastic place! They must’ve really enjoyed having you both there. Two people who know so much about turtles……enough to be impressed with what they’re doing. I’m sure they need that validation from time to time. 🐢❤️🐢

[@pete2438]

This is incredibly inspiring. I only have 10 Leopard and 10 Speke's Hinge-back rescues in their native Kenya (severe carapace damage and/or habitat loss, they can't go back), but I want to be part of a network like this.

[@anngenaske4648]

Thank you for sharing. These are things I'd never otherwise get to see.

[@nicholas87541]

Awesome to see the turtles and tortoises! Great to join you on your European adventures through KZbin!

[@nifferscritters]

Such a wonderful place!!! I’m so happy you got to visit there and your enthusiasm is contagious! 🐢🥰😃 Can we talk about how cute that scruffy dog is though? 🐶😄

[@BajatheChickenMan]

What a beautiful facility. Im absolutely envious. Glad you guys had a great time across the pond.

[@netney52]

Welcome to the uk. I’m so glad your trip has been outside London as you have been able to see our country. I’ve not been to Norfolk but heard it’s lovely. This has been so helpful learning about turtles and tortoises in the uk 😊

[@katlady567]

I’m looking forward to seeing if you implement any environmental changes when you get back home from such a beautiful and inspirational garden.

[@spingirl4855]

What an amazing place- thanks for sharing!

[@heidihunt8163]

I do ❤ this channel and have learnt so much keeping my tortoise and turtles healthy . Chris, your passion and dedication is inspiring ! I feed my tortoise 🐽 dry pellet in order to keep his beak nice and he loves it ! 🙃

[@jenpink4298]

This place is so beautiful and I am not sure I would want to leave. Especially if I could hang out with the tiny babies 😍

[@tonymonahan1185]

Beautiful video of an amazing place. Thank you for being ambassadors for turtles and tortoises ❤

[@Gizathecat2]

Chris, I’ve been enjoying your videos going on three years. Just want to say thank you!😊

[@lourdesmendez6158]

Espectacular!!! Love it.

[@mettevunsjensen4094]

When I was three months old, my mother bought a ‘greek’ tortoise. It was in Denmark in the 70’. Rasmus lived for 27 years, roaming the expanse of our appartment. In the summer she was outside every day. I always wondered what species she was, and I look for similarities in your videos. The whitey eyed tortoise looked exactly like Rasmus, except for the markings on the shield. Looking at the head and the legs was exactly like looking at Rasmus, and now I’m crying, because she was a big part of my life. Is there another tortoise like this one, but with a more uniform colour on the shield?

[@Heatseeker872591]

Very educational Chris. That's like tortoise paradise. There are so many sub species of greek tortoises . Mine is a little male Hermann's and he's a handful but he's adorable 😍

[@Nova200u]

I love ur channel it keeps my tortise healthy

[@cynthialbell9023]

Hi Chris Magicalbis a true description for this tortoise sanctuary in England. They are so happy, and healthy in their wonderful enviorment. The care that they all get is so awesome. And how they can be active, and pritected from the harsh England winter. Such an incredible place. You were so excited to se so many species that are doing fantastic, and reproducing babies. What aeinder experience for you ❤🐢Cindy

[@rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282]

I am so glad how happy these people are. So am I!

[@hockeymorsa7487]

Chris, you are in heaven in Europe 🍀. Sorry I couldn't make it to your lecture in UK. Thank you for sharing the great work they do at this Secret Sanctuary. Would love to be a volunteer there fir a couple of weeks. My best regards from my Family Paddingtons of 16 THB and THH. ♥️🍀🐢

[@bidlad132]

Amazing and magical

[@k.6160]

What a wonderful place!🐢🐢

[@MFoster392]

Great information , so many amazing people around the world helping turtles and torts :-)

[@bluedeva]

Eleanor’s page has been amazing advice for naturalistic enclosures over here in the UK. I use the foiled bubble wrap (used for behind radiators) to help hold heat and humidity in, just like the bubble wrap roofing in this post which has been so helpful especially this year when the mornings are weirdly still too cold for my western Hermann’s so he starts his day indoors and then goes outside when the sun has warmed up. I have to start weeds and grasses off in seed trays with added calcium d3 powder mixed in and then transplant them into his enclosures when they are more established otherwise Mr Pebble mows them down within a few hours 😁 I’m so glad you got to come over here and there will be no way I’m missing you guys again when you come back again 🤞🏻🤗

[@ashtonjones5768]

Amazing sanctuary.❤

[@RebeccaYouhoo]

What a amazing place! Thanks for sharing

[@SweetNaz78]

Such a beautiful adventure thank you for sharing

[@pegedey1291]

What a wonderous beautiful place! Lovely home for these fabulous animals!

[@lindad1195]

It’s absolutely beautiful there and the tortoises are gorgeous and so well loved and cared for! Thank you for sharing this experience with us!

[@cosmoplakat9549]

Great show and tell from the beautiful sanctuary!

[@pomp5154]

Chris your videos are so informative and are tempting me to invest in a Tortoise or turtle. I hope you are enjoying your time in Europe especially my beloved England

[@MohsenAhmed-dc1yl]

Awesome video, I didn't know that the Algerian Giants existed.

[@yuhe99_torto]

Amazing tortoises ❤❤❤

[@bethannyallain5395]

❣❣ Just brilliant!! Again thank you for taking us along on your adventures. I can't wait for the video.

[@chrisc.czarnopys7618]

I always learn something from every one of your videos. Thank you.!❤

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

She growing plants like Dairy Farmers grow to graze the cattle. In rows!! Too cool!

[@tyliful]

awesome place.

[@alexandreortega3396]

Amazing!

[@naegwut]

Love this channel New sub

[@Lisa-qy3bp]

Nice to see tortoises living a life of luxury ❤🐢

[@Daniel_B_23]

Awesome video! 🐢♥️

[@koreyratering4662]

Watched this again. Your excitement over tortoises makes me so excited that I am able to care for some of my own. I absolutely love this video. to bad winter is coming and the torts are moving inside. I have so many spring goals now.

[@sharim]

What an amazing sanctuary! It’s well worth a trip to Europe just to see that!

[@kirstysmith2903]

Just wow.

[@cosmoplakat9549]

Will turtles naturally seek out calcium deposits in their native habitats the way some species seek out minerals from dirt and salt from salt deposits? When I kept aquariums, I added calcium/mineral tablets called "Mineral Junkie" specifically made for freshwater snails, shrimp, and crabs. Their shells need more calcium than is available in softer water.

[@rebeccacorbin1590]

I'm still amazed by the gorgeous shells. They are all so nice and rounded. Hardly any pyramiding at all.

[@Hewbrry496]

Another one Coool I know when you make KZbin videos and Sundays Sundays were the best and the worse the school comes!💀

[@Shaden0040]

one way to add calcium for tortoises is to find cuddle bone and on the beaches of England they appear quite often so if somebody wanted to collect cuddle bone and donate it to this facility I'm sure they would be grateful! and of course you can always break up the cuddle bone and bury some of it Which will help add to the calcium enrichment in the soil. and it's all natural period now I would think that parts of England would have plenty of calcium in the soil since they have a lot of chalk deposits but maybe it's not water soluble and not able to be incorporated into the plants although any acidic rain would probably break that down fairly quickly I would think.

[@Jill-K]

One thing I've learnt from your videos is cute as they may be, unless your willing to donate a lot of time and care you should not be getting these as pets. They're beautiful and deserve the attention.

[@tassi8925]

That’s why I’m losing my pattern, I’m getting old lol

[@michaeldolan5792]

"He does seem to like your toes, Case." Chris is just happy that he's not the one getting bitten for a change. (Looking at you, Otis and La Cay...)

[@northernplantucky]

❤️🙏🐢

[@safranpollen]

If you want some greece balkan hatchlings, tell it me. You have to organize the transport. I have around 10-15/20 eggs. Normally i throw them away, but if you like sum, tell it me. If you like my whole stock , 2 girls, laying eggs every year an one boy and several different ages.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

You got to see a tortoise post mortem?! How cooool

[@belizeguy]

What a Place!!

[@ChizNuggZ]

Wow 😮

[@Ilovewildlifeandstuff.]

❤

[@JackieArmB]

I want to see graphic details! I'm a tortoise owner with a medical background. 😊

[@woa.h]

I have a question, i keep a hermanns tortoise along with a seperate terrarium which houses some of my dairy cow isopods. Do you think i could add some isopods into my tortoise enclosure as a kind of mini cleanup crew?

[@leosparadox9757]

15:32 Everyone is so smooth until we get to the redfooted tortoises...

[@tortoise_matters]

The centre does holiday care and also the centre help Rehomer’s 150 animals a year. The redfoot are Rehomers who haven’t had the best start in terms of diet and environment. :)

[@joycedavis9996]

will we be able to see/hear your presentations?

[@stellavolberg]

here in ohio isee alot of turtles being given away to people who dont know how to properly take care of them 😢