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Tortoises especially female tortoises and hatchlings need calcium so you can sprinkle tortoise food with calcium carbonate or feed us boiled crushed chicken egg shells. They will eat meat if you give it.
You can occasionally feed them the leaves of the romaine or red and green lettuce and endive escarole radicchio and chicory are all good for them.
What foods can a horsefield tortoise eat. In addition they need a diet high in calcium and fiber and low in protein. Calcium and fiber is important in their diet. Having a variety of food as much as possible is important to being healthy.
Do not get in the routine of feeding them the same thing everyday. What Do Horsefield Tortoises Eat. There are even some fruits that Horsefield tortoises can eat such as plantains and figs.
Larger non-starchy vegetables like artichokes cucumbers aloe vera sweet peppers and celery are also great choices. Horsefield tortoises are herbivores and need to be fed and managed accordingly. What Foods To Avoid Feeding Them.
13 Zeilen The Horsefield tortoise is an herbivore and not a carnivore. They will eat meat if you give it. Turtles in general require a diet which is higher in protein than most tortoises.
They tend to eat insects small fish and commercially available turtle food thats higher in protein than equivalent products available for most tortoises. Hermann Dwarf Hermann Horsefield Spur-thighed Marginated Sulcata and Leopard Tortoises are herbivores and feed mainly on plants and leaves. Fruit should only be fed as a treat not everyday.
Red-footed Tortoises are omnivores and eat a wider range of food than other species of tortoise. In addition to the lists below they can occasionally eat. From the store I buy curly endive escarole mustard greens turnip greens spring mix red lettuce romaine lettuce.
I feed kale once in a while. There are a lot of different things you can feed your tortoise that are listed on the Forum. Do not feed your Russian tortoise fruit.
Tortoise Food List - What They Can and Cant Eat 1. All legumes and grains are prohibited food for turtles such as beans corn rice pea pods. Despite the necessities of feeding vegetables to your tortoise there are some which you will need to.
Root vegetables such as Carrots or Parsnips are high in carbohydrates and should be limited and preferably not fed at all. Dark green leafy vegetables such as Cabbage are often recommended for tortoises when flowering plants and weeds are not available but remember they are high in goitrogens and should not be fed exclusively. Brussels Sprouts Brussel Sprouts Brassica oleraceae Gemmifera Group See More.
Cabbage Red Cabbage Savoy Cabbage White Cabbage Sweetheart Cabbage Brassica oleracea Capitata Group. Sweet woodruff is more useful as a low growing evergreen shelter plant but is occasionally eaten. In general tortoises do not like herbs and actively avoid those with very strong scented leaves.
Tortoises especially female tortoises and hatchlings need calcium so you can sprinkle tortoise food with calcium carbonate or feed us boiled crushed chicken egg shells. Some people scrape a cuttlebone over tortoises food. Food that is dangerous to tortoises The things in this list are NOT food for a tortoise.
Aldabra Leopard and Galapagos Like the sulcata the leopard tortoise Aldabra tortoises and Galapagos tortoises have evolved to eat various grasses. Their diet would consist of two thirds or three quarters in grasses or hay. The rest of their diet should be flowers weeds and greens.
A Horsfields tortoises diet consists of vegetation. Good foods include dandelion clover honeysuckle leafy salads watercress curly kale brussel tops spring greens coriander parsley rocket carrot parsnip courgette and bell peppers. The bulk of the vegetation should be leafy greens.
In the wild tortoises wont alway eat every day as at times food can become very scarce. However for many captive tortoises there is a tendancy to be over fed by their keepers probably because we feel they should eat plenty every day. This overfeeding can lead to rapid growth which in turn can cause bone and other problems so should be avoided.
Horsefields will naturally eat the right amount of food and not overeat preventing obesity. This works well because it takes much of the guesswork out of feeding your tortoise. They can eat the grass weeds dandelions wild plants etc.
In the outdoor setting. A few edible plants and vegetables that are suitable for feeding to your Horsefield tortoise include dandelions leaves and flowers dry hay grasses bramble chick weed nasturtium mustard sunflower mint clover water cress turnip carrot cabbage barley apple. Tortoise food list.
You can feed your tortoise the following items. Dandelion Taraxacum officinale Sowthistle Sinchus species Chicory Cichorium intybus Coleus Solenostemon scutellarioides Shepherds purse Capsella bursa-pastoris Field bindweed Convolvulus arvensis Hawkbit Leontodon species Mallow Malva species. You can occasionally feed them the leaves of the romaine or red and green lettuce and endive escarole radicchio and chicory are all good for them.