egyptiandan said:(snip)Say you were being good and making a salad with Romaine, Dandelion, Opuntia, Plantains and Pansy flowers. Say you did this every day for a week. You are feeding a variety, but your tortoise may just be mostly eating the Dandelion out of the mix. So actually your feeding Dandelion 7 days and not actually a varied diet. This is where the problem comes in with feeding foods with oxalic acid, i.e. feeding it in a salad every day.
Danny
LOL! I know what you are saying, but I rarely have that problem. Mine usually eat down to the plate!
I can also go ya one better on the superfood- I ground up some Timothy hay cubes for rabbits into coarse fibers, then shook that with the calcium powder and a crushed multivitamin, and offer a decent pinch on each salad. Fiber and calcium. Now I just have to get some vitamin D drops!
Torty Mom said:I was under the assumption that green beans were NOT good to feed? They are just a tad different than dandelion.
Does anyone feed their CDT's green beans?
Lisa's Tort Elliott LOVES green beans, but she was NOT going to feed them anymore as she had heard they were bad for him!
Green beans are the immature beans and you are feeding the pad as well, so they are not quite as 'beany' as other legumes. In fact, 100g of gren beans and snap peas only have about 2g of protein in them compared to the 35g in peas (which have little calcium and a terrible ratio.)