What should i feed my Sulcata Tortoise?
a sulcata needs a high fiber low protein diet The majority of the Sulcata’s diet intake should be from a variety of grasses, weeds, and clovers. NEVER offer iceberg lettuce. A Sulcata tortoise has a high fiber requirement in the diet. Approximately 75% of the diet should be comprised of graze such as the grasses, weeds, and clovers. The remaining 25% of the diet can from mixtures of dark, leafy greens such as turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, chicory, watercress, hibiscus leaves and blossoms, mulberry leaves, grape leaves, dandelion greens and blossoms (untreated with pesticides). If you feed kale and collard greens, only do so once in a while in small portions. Do not offer items such as chard, spinach, broccoli, cabbages, cauliflower, green beans or beans of any kind, corn, sprouts of any kind, tomatoes…or any legume or high protein vegetable. These tortoises are grazing animals in the wild, and a graze type of diet is the very best you can provide for them. If you do no
