Baby Sulcata Tortoise Diet List
Leafy greens can be offered often.
Baby sulcata tortoise diet list. Basic diet of a sulcata tortoise sulcatas need a high fiber low protein calcium rich diet. Recommended diet items can be broadly classified into three types. Strive to provide 75 percent of the tortoises diet from. Weeds leaves and flowers.
We suggest 40 of the veggie diet should. Grass should form the bulk of a captive sulcata s diet. Hawkbeards crepis spp plantains plantago spp. 60 of the diet.
Approved foods for sulcata tortoises grass. Clovers trifolium spp honeysuckle lonicera periclymenum preferred by t. Dandelion prickly pear cactus pads opuntia species. Along with fresh water the most important staple in your sulcata s diet is grass.
Spring mix a blend of various greens and lettuces normally consisting of an even ratio of baby lettuces baby green romaine lettuce and red romaine lettuce tango lettuce baby green oak lettuce and red oak lettuce lolla rosa baby green leaf lettuce and red leaf lettuce baby green butter lettuce and red butter lettuce baby greens red swiss chard mizuna tatsoi baby spinach arugula frisee and raddichio. They are grazers much like a cow and love to walk all day lazily munching on it. Buffalo grass buchloe dactyloides bermuda grass orchard grass dactylis glomerata big bluestem. Sulcata tortoises need access to grasses and hay on which to graze.
Prickly pear cactus opuntia sp pads are affordable food that sulcatas eagerly consume. Dandelion taraxacum officianale hawkbits leontodon spp sowthistles sonchus spp hawkweeds pictis spp. What is the best diet for my african sulcata tortoise. The bulk of their.