Hi, the local pet store sells medium sized bags of "organic" dry timothy and alfa hay. Would this be a good food for a tortoise of the Gopherus species?
Would it be willing to eat the dry hay? Soon it will be cold outside in my area and I need to figure out some winter foods it will eat...
Also is "spring mix" a bad food if it was the bulk of the diet for a gopherus species over the winter? Is it too much leafy greens and not enough grass? I have some zoo med "grassland tortoise" diet and it doesnt want to eat that as far as I saw. Dandelions it always eats... are they good for it? Actually right now about all it eats is the grass and weeds in the yard in its pen... it eats lettuce but I don't feed it any.
thx
Would it be willing to eat the dry hay? Soon it will be cold outside in my area and I need to figure out some winter foods it will eat...
Also is "spring mix" a bad food if it was the bulk of the diet for a gopherus species over the winter? Is it too much leafy greens and not enough grass? I have some zoo med "grassland tortoise" diet and it doesnt want to eat that as far as I saw. Dandelions it always eats... are they good for it? Actually right now about all it eats is the grass and weeds in the yard in its pen... it eats lettuce but I don't feed it any.
thx