Baby Sulcata Tortoise Diet List
They are grazers much like a cow and love to walk all day lazily munching on it.
Baby sulcata tortoise diet list. The bulk of their. Approved foods for sulcata tortoises grass. We suggest 40 of the veggie diet should. Various types of nutritious grasses.
Grasses and hay 100 of the time. Clovers trifolium spp honeysuckle lonicera periclymenum preferred by t. Along with fresh water the most important staple in your sulcata s diet is grass. Strive to provide 75 percent of the tortoises diet from.
60 of the diet. Grass should form the bulk of a captive sulcata s diet. What is the best diet for my african sulcata tortoise. Buffalo grass buchloe dactyloides bermuda grass orchard grass dactylis glomerata big bluestem.
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. Recommended tortoise safe plants. Dandelion taraxacum officianale hawkbits leontodon spp sowthistles sonchus spp hawkweeds pictis spp. Dandelion prickly pear cactus pads opuntia species.
Weeds leaves and flowers. Hawkbeards crepis spp plantains plantago spp. Prickly pear cactus opuntia sp pads are affordable food that sulcatas eagerly consume. Leafy greens can be offered often.