Posted 06 September 2019 - 08:06 PM
To reassure you, most of the keepers and at least the active ones on this forum live in the UK and some even north of the UK and a lot of us keep our torts outdoors at least for April to September, some keep theirs outdoors longer. Here is below the initial basic information on outdoor enclosures:
Regarding protection from predators from the sky (birds) and from the ground (foxes, rats etc) and also to avoid your tortoise to escape, you need to put wire adequately around your enclosure, but the base of your enclosure should be solid and not wire.
Electrics: heat lamp is 100% required for tortoises in the UK outdoors.
Shelter: cold frame in aluminium is good as shelter to start with. Some people have sheds. The heat lamp should be installed in the shelter. Please note that rabbit hutches are too low to install a heat lamp.
Please read the posts in the outdoor enclosure section on his forum that will give you further information on outdoor enclosures.
Also you can Google images for tortoise outdoor enclosures in Google to get ideas of what people have done.
Should have any questions on outdoor enclosures please let us know.we are happy to help
Hopefully that is helpful.
Sabina