Skillie eats small stones?
 

Active 3 year old female, mostly in garden eating weeds, drinking water. cuttle bone.
On the grit path, she just loves digging for small stones. They come out in her excriment.
Why ?

Some of mine do this, I don't know why, but unless you move her off the grit path she will keep doing it, they are little buggers 😄

just seen other thread too. one of mine always eats them, and digs them out too, ive counted loads when she poops them. The body strips the calcium and oxides out so no harm I know of. Just if they are adopted sometimes I find they have been fed pellets and they can mistake them for the food source so just be wary of that. I cant believe the size of them she swallows. She has cuttle fish also and chomps on that occasionally and lime flour biscuits but stones remain a favourite. CB

Although mine are outdoor all the time they still eat small stones. If I see this I move them on but they still want to return. I wondered if it was something to do with the stones looking light and the torts thinking stones were food.....but I don't think this could be right. X X X hugs X X

I have heard it can be when they are deficient in something. Minerals etc. I took one of mine to the vet a few years ago thinking she was gravid but couldn't pass the eggs, had her x rayed turns out Tilly was full of stones. Had to give her lots of baths and oil enemas and she eventually passed them.

I think keeping yours well hydrated will help☺

I remember seeing the x-ray pic on here Lynn. I hope Tilly is behaving now and hasn't had so many stones again?
A couple of my females seem to seek them out even though they have cuttlefish, chalk and plenty of calcium on their food.