My big girl is not eating :(

[pagan queen]

I have advised 2 people on here before about tortoises not eating and it's been a success. These pellets. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/17061...f14=108&ff19=0

They are for parrots but have a very similar formula to tortoise pellets but smell very fruity and torts seem to love them.

[Hanako]

Originally Posted by pagan queen

I have advised 2 people on here before about tortoises not eating and it's been a success. These pellets. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/17061...f14=108&ff19=0

They are for parrots but have a very similar formula to tortoise pellets but smell very fruity and torts seem to love them.

I know, those worked on my Goldie! But no luck this time!

[pagan queen]

Originally Posted by Hanako

I know, those worked on my Goldie! But no luck this time!

I've done it again. Of course it was you who used them before. Sorry, my memory is shot to pieces.

Have you tried squeezing cucumber juice on some weeds or pellets? Grapes are usually loved too.

[pagan queen]

The balls at the bottom are her hip bones by the way.

[Hanako]

Originally Posted by pagan queen

The balls at the bottom are her hip bones by the way.

Thank you! Weird that none of those tortoises in the Xrays pictures in the book seem to have any hip bones!

[Hanako]

Originally Posted by pagan queen

I've done it again. Of course it was you who used them before. Sorry, my memory is shot to pieces.

Have you tried squeezing cucumber juice on some weeds or pellets? Grapes are usually loved too.

Not only squeezing cucumber juice on other food. I have even served cucumber in thin slices (thin to save her having to bite too hard) and also grated cucumber (just in case she can't be bothered to bite at all and wants to just swallow it). The cucumber was most successful - she had two bites. (under 'normal' circumstances she would polish off the whole lot, but two bites is still much better than nothing.) But the following day not even a bite and not even the grated one.

[becciwales]

of course they are Wendy.

[pagan queen]

I found this one on Google. You can see the hip bones quite clearly although they aren't a round as your tortoises.

[Hanako]

It seems to me as if mine has got something on top of the bones. Something that probably isn't bones, it may be above it on the picture...but maybe I am just being paranoid.

[egyptiandan64]

It's not anything solid as you can see the bones underneath. It is possible it's calcium oxalate sand (as in little bitty stones). Enemas may help with that but it shouldn't be preventing her from eating.
I would say it's a protozoan problem and a course of Flagyl may do the trick and get her back eating. If it doesn't get her to eat, than a feeding tube should probably be put in to get her some nutrition.

Danny