Specific Red Foot food list?

Question

I was wondering if anybody could help give me a specific list of food for a red foot tortoise, and maybe a diet plan that worked for them you.

Answer 1

I have three of these guys, and I am following Terry Kilgore's plan- http://www.redfoots.com

It is great, BUT you have to have good temps, tank size, humidity, etc. as well for healthy tortoises.

On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: Greens- endive or escarole lettuce, turnip greens or dandelions.

Wednesday and Saturday: Fruit- a mix strawberries, melon, pineapple, mango, papaya, kiwi, cactus fruit, etc. Rarely bananas or grapes, very rarely things like apple or pears (focus on tropical fruits and berries). I use a frozen/thawed 'smoothie mix'. On Saturday, try to add something new or different.

Sunday: Meat- Terry uses several pellets of weight-maintenance cat foods, well-soaked, and lightly dusted with calcium carbonate. Serve meat in about a 1/2 size portion, and skip it for babies under about 6 months.

Portion size- a daily portion is about the size of the animal's head. When the turtle hits about a year old, skip a day or two a week, and skip more as it gets older.


I vary Terry's program a little: I use a few more kinds of dark leafy lettuce- based on what I can find locally that is fresh, and I use a sprinkle of vitamin mix 2x a week. I also let them graze on some safe garden stuff (edible and no chemicals in many years) outside.

Answer 2

The woodland habitat can grant the purple-foot with an abundance of fallen culmination including wild plum. It additionally eats wild mushrooms, vines, grasses, succulents and carrion, and is involved in yellow and purple flowers. two times each and every week feed purple-foots blended vegetables, eco-friendly leafy vegetables, and culmination and flowers supplemented with Osteoform powder, and as quickly as each and every week grant them Zu-Preem.hatchlings consume a matching weight loss software to the adults. inhabitants of humid forests, purple-foots do drink various of water perfect extreme calcium vegetables contain: collard, mustard, and dandelion. different vegetables including endive, watercress, romaine, kale, and escarole additionally should be jumbled at the same time for variety. Spinach must be fed sparingly, because it includes oxalates that bind nutritional calcium, making it unavailable. reliable culmination and vegetables to furnish contain: pumpkin, wintry climate squash, grated carrots, criminal-neck squash, zucchini, papaya, mango, kiwi, melon, cantaloupe, frozen blended vegetables (thawed), and prickly pear culmination. Feed cruciferous vegetables including broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts in small quantities, those vegetables contain iodine binders that could reason a nutritional deficiency if fed as an excellent part of the load loss software. suitable for eating flowers contain: hibiscus, nasturtium, prickly-pear flowers, and dandelions. A small volume of animal protein must be presented the different feeding, extreme high quality canned canines food and pinky mice are suited. Hatchling tortoises must be fed familiar, and a pinch of extreme high quality reptile calcium complement must be sprinkled on their food the different day. After the 1st 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, purple-foots may be fed the different day and given calcium two times each and every week. 2-3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous tortoises and adults must be fed two times weekly and given a pinch of calcium at each and each feeding.

Answer 3

Here ya go! Just provide a variety.

http://www.kingsnake.com/rockymountain/RMHPages/RMHredfoot.htm

http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/cs-redfoot.htm

Answer 4

Here's an awesome feeding list (and website)...
http://www.redfoottortoise.com/redfoot_tortoise_diet.htm