11-10-2011, 07:29 PM | #1 |
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Favourite foods? Particularly in Winter!
I'm over-wintering my babies (due to their age, very recent arrival with me, and the fact they are my first tortoises) and although I am trying to grow some weeds and flowers from seed, I was wondering what else people do when choices of weeds and wildflowers outside are sparse?
There are loads of dandelions around and my two LOVE them but I am trying to feed them a wide variety of food. I'm giving them the odd bit of lettuce (NOT iceberg), some raddicio which they like, and have tried them on a number of different flowers (evening primrose, rose, harebell, geranium, petunia, marigold) and they're not interested in any! I've not run out of things currently growing in my garden so am trying to think of what else I could get hold of. What about a suitable pellet feed for Hermanns? If I feed this to supplement their weeds during the Winter, how easy will it be to wean them off it in Spring / Summer (as I don't really want to rely on pellet food year round)? TIA!
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Have to add i also use Pre Alpin as a mix, every thing is moderated to an extent. Other winter food's apart from home grown weed's/plant's could be if the winter is kind, safe wild weed's in sheltered area's, mixed salad bag's like Med mix, Italian mix, squashes, small amount's of veg if not feeding a Tortoise pellet.
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mine also get pellets and greenery and again once they've had enough of the pellets will move over to the greenery, and again don't seem to mind on the days there's no pellets, they just eat the greenery.
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Mazui tortoise diet... Winter... Spring... Summer and Fall...
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I got all excited then as I thought this was a thread about human favourite Winter foods !!!!
I was going to suggest home made soup and stews, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !!!! |
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Well if we're going for HUMAN favourites, it has to be bread and butter pudding, really!!
Nom nom...
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Tortoise feeding to Jamie Oliver, Dumpling's, Faggot's and Spotted Dick .
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This would go over well here in Georgia.
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I hate dumplings and faggots but I love spotted dick
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