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cooking advice

What do people feed their tortoises on?

I feed my two toroises on Tesco's various mixed bags lettuce and Cos lettuce but wonder if they would like anything more substantial.

Except for the last two responses none of the people who have responded have any idea how to care for a tortoise. Tortoises do not eat cat food or dog food and feeding them such can cause severe organ damage which will result in death.

Tortoises are herbivorous, this means that the need a lot of vegetables, greens, and some fruits in order to maintain a well balanced diet. Tortoises in the wild range over extenive areas, grazing somewhat like cattle do. They are opportunistic feeders in some case and depending on the tortoise they will sometimes eat carrion and mushrooms along with grasses, weeds, fruits, and legumes. Because in the wild they have such a varied diet, their healthy remains much stronger than tortoises that are raised in captivity.

Keepers of captive tortoises have been developing diets and nutrition schedules for tortoises since the very first tortoise was taken from the wild for a pet. We have discovered through trial and error that there are some foods that should be fed in limited quantities and others that in abundance are actually quite healthy. Natural foods such as wild grasses, flowers, weeds, and leafy greens are the best however because of limited access to wild vegetation, most tortoise owners are left to use grocery greens and vegetables to feed their tortoises.

Because the nutritional value of grocery greens has declined over the years this can cause an issue when trying to maintain a well balanced diet. So they key to feeding tortoises using mostly grocery produce is to make sure that you offer a wide variety of foods. The mistake that many first time owners make is that they either feed the wrong foods or they pick one type of food and ONLY feed that one food. Lettuce seems to be the food of choice for most first time tortoise keepers, and while there are many types of lettuce that do actually have quite a bit of nutritional value there is one type that should be avoided completly. Iceburg lettuce has no nutritional value and this can actually starve your tortoises to death.

No matter what the species of tortoise always remember that variety means healthy. Still you should always find out what type of tortoise you have. There are some that can process high sugar foods such as fruits much more readily than others. While all tortoises can have some fruit there are most that can only have fruits as a treat while others can have 10% or more of their diet include fruits. If you aren't sure what kind of tortoise you have then don't worry, just feed healthy foods and only give fruits once a month in small quantities.

I have over 25 tortoises myself and they range from tropical fruit eaters to deaset hay eaters. No matter what species this is the diet that I offer my tortoises. For each dinner they are given no less than 6 different vegetables and greens combined. I also grow weeds and grasses in flower pots to supplement their diet and purchase small bales of hay to mix with their food. You can also buy edible plants such as petunias, impatiens, nashturshiums, poppies, hostas, ice plant, and hibiscus.

This is a list of foods that I offer regularly:

Dandelions (greens leaves and flowers)
Collard Greens
Mustard Greens
Turnip Greens
Kale
Chards
Parsley
Cilantro
Fennel
Wild Plantain
Endive
Escarole
Green Leaf Lettuce
Red Leaf Lettuce
Romaine (in small quantities)
Raddicchio
Winter Squashes
Summer Squashes
Radish tops
Carrots tops
Grated carrots
Ice Plant
Petunia flowers
Hibiscus Flowers
Nashturshiums
White Clover
Red Clover
Shamrocks
Red peppers
Yellow Peppers
Opuntia Cactus Pads
Figs (leaves and fruit)
Yams
Watercress
Grape Leaves

While I haven't listed every vegetable available, these are some really good vegetables and greens that can be mixed with other foods. Remember not every food contains all of the vitamins and minerals neccesary for good health so providing 5 or more different vegetables and greens per day helps keep a tortoise healthy. I do not offer the spring mix greens that the grocery stores sell because the greens are very poor quality and tend to have spinach in them which is not recommended for tortoises.

This link is for bearded dragons however it does show some really good nutritional information for various vegetables and fruits which you can use to examine calcium to phosphorus ratios. Since tortoises need high calcium this is a good list. http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/Nutrition.html

For more information and lists of healthy plants and vegetables for tortoises you can go to

http://www.russiantortoise.org

http://www.turtletimes.com

http://www.turtleforum.com

http://www.anapsid.org/mainchelonians.html

http://www.tortoisetrust.org/