Various types of nutritious grasses.
Baby sulcata tortoise diet list.
Prickly pear cactus opuntia sp pads are affordable food that sulcatas eagerly consume.
Basic diet of a sulcata tortoise sulcatas need a high fiber low protein calcium rich diet.
Sulcata tortoises need access to grasses and hay on which to graze.
Buffalo grass buchloe dactyloides bermuda grass orchard grass dactylis glomerata big bluestem.
Grass should form the bulk of a captive sulcata s diet.
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.
Weeds leaves and flowers.
Clovers trifolium spp honeysuckle lonicera periclymenum preferred by t.
Hawkbeards crepis spp plantains plantago spp.
Approved foods for sulcata tortoises grass.
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.
They are grazers much like a cow and love to walk all day lazily munching on it.