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    Winter Diets

    From the grocery store, try sticking to escarole, endive, radicchio. You can add to that some dandilion, turnip greens. You can buy spineless opuntia pads off of eBay for reasonable price. Tortoise supply sells testudo seed mix that you can try growing indoors with a grow light, and they also...
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    Shell Is Dented

    @Yvonne G , can you help this member with your experience?
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    Shell Is Dented

    Sorry I can't help you further. Hopefully one of the others will be along shortly that might be able to help you more.
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    Shell Is Dented

    Meant proper uvb light!
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    Shell Is Dented

    Looks like it might be metabolic bone disease, but can't say for sure. Hopefully someone with more experience will respond now that I have commented. Does this tortoise have access to natural sunshine or a proper job light?
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    Concerning poop

    I don't have a sulcata, and am by no means an expert and also fairly new to tortoises myself, but aside from the poop question you stated that this tortoise just came out of a hibernation. It is my understanding that sulcata tortoises are not a brumating/hibernating species.
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    Is this lambs ear?

    Looks like spearmint to me. Did you try smelling it. If it is, I believe it is safe.
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