Recently, many people have asked me about cleansing the intestines before hibernation. In my personal understanding, the process of cleansing the intestines should be left to nature and not be too deliberate. For example, personally, when the temperature here is around twenty degrees Celsius, I basically feed them very little, and occasionally I will feed them a bit. The amount is actually like a quarter of what it was in the summer. Then they eat a little food and bask in the sun, which can also be digested.
However, when the temperature drops to around fifteen degrees Celsius, fifteen or sixteen degrees, I stop feeding them completely. At this point, there is still some time before they truly enter hibernation.
During this time, you don’t need to do anything, just let them move freely in the original environment, which can be considered as natural intestinal cleansing for them. But there are also turtles that come out to look for food at fifteen or sixteen degrees Celsius. At that time, you don’t need to do anything, don’t feed them just because they want to eat. If you really feed them and they don’t digest it, they are likely to get enteritis, which will be very troublesome at that time, and it is likely that they will not be able to survive.
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