Pitcairn Islands

Tuesday, June 13, 2006 THE NEW TORTOISE FARM

By unanimous consent it was decided at last month's Full Council Meeting to start a Tortoise Farm on the Island. Ostriches has been the favourite but someone suggested they may try to escape. We are 4,000 miles from the nearest inhabited land, where they were going to escape to?

Anyway, the eventual solution has been the adoption of the Tortoise Farm plan. It is our intention to farm both for the shells, to be made into trinkets, carvings, jewellery etc., and for their meat.

This picture of the first of our farm, the idea is to breed from this one and so double the numbers ever time he breeds. A great idea, if only someone would have thought that a female might help the process along some.

Apparantly tortoi (which is the plural for tortoises) breed rampantly ever 40-50 years, before reaching their peak at around the 200 year old mark, then dying.

The other drawback is that tortoi are impossible to sex, so even if we do introduce another tortoise, it will be sixty years before we know the outcome.

We're going to have another vote this evening in the Council House - whether or not to have Baked Tortoi and Chips on Friday.

I hope I get a leg!

Posted by Pitcairn Islanders - The Real Christians :: 3:22 AM :: 3 comments

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