Getting a tortoise to eat greens/ vegetables?

Question

First, thank you everyone who has helped with my previous questions. Now my question is that she doesnt like to eat greens and vegetables. Anything that is plane and kinda Blah she doesnt eat. Anyway to get her to eat these things? Anybody also had this experience?

Answer 1

I've had that problem with my Sulcatas. They didn't want to eat their greens, so I bought a small $10 food processor at Wal-Mart. I used it to chop up the greens, and I added what my Sulcatas loved to it, such as corn or apples. They couldn't pick out what they liked, but they smelled what they did like, so they ate it all. This mixture also made it easy to mix in calcium powder. Now they eat all of their greens, even if that's the only thing I give them, since they got used to eating it.

Answer 2

attempt to feed him different sorts of lettuce or maybe weeds out of your overgrown backyard. something leafy and green particularly. Romaine is customarily water so it has little or no dietary fee different sorts of lettuce have greater supplementations. additionally, be sure you're utilising a calcium complement with D3 because of the fact it particularly is significant on your tortoises shell advance. additionally, a tomato is a fruit and could be fed much less generally because of the fact it has a extreme sugar content cloth.

Answer 3

You can also make a puree of their favorite fruit and use it as a "dressing". Put the fruit in a food processor and add a bit of water, blend till its like a sauce. Pour over the greens/vegies. You don't need much.

Answer 4

prepare a container filled with water, add in fish oil or shrimps in the pail of water, then soak your veggies in the container with the oil or shrimps ( as long as you feels that the smell is strong enough) like 30mins to 45mins later, you can drain out the water and feed your tortoise with the veggies. Your tortoise will eat it as it has smell on the veggies

Answer 5

what I did is I bought turtle treats(dried shrimp work best) and get them used to eating that first. then take the treat and put a little peice of lettuce on it. then start giving them lettuce first then a treat afterwards. they will eventually get used to all veggies if you do this method with every other one. you then might be able to figure out what his favorites are.