I usually wait until it gets a bit colder outside. This affects the temperatures of my reptileroom. The animals will notice this and start preparing for hibernation. When the temperatures start to drop, I start reducing the hours of light a day. I reduce it with about an hour a week.
As soon as I start reducing the lighthours, I stop feeding them (usually they already stopped eating well before that)
When I'm down to about 8 hours of light a day, I shut their lights off.
After two weeks without any other light then daylight, I move them to their hibernating boxes.
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In the wild, a significant portion of them die during hibernation.
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Yes, indeed. But like snaky says
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It's true that it's a risk, but that's only for an unhealthy snake (sick, to thin, having parasites, ...).
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I have never seen any wild garters, but I guess they wont look like as healthy as our captive snakes