3rd one looks like catsear or hawkbit, edible.
4th one looks like dandelion, also edible. My Greek loves these.
I think the first might be a California poppy (they have them in Utah!). Is the foliage a bit gray-green? I can’t quite tell from the photo. Californi poppies are safe.
The second I don’t know.
I agree the third and fourth photo looks like chicories (catsear, hawksbit, dandelion), all are safe. In the third photo you also have some burr or hop clover (upper left), safe. I think the fourth one might have some chickweed in it, the one with the white flowers. I’d need a better picture but chickweed is safe.
I don’t know five or six.
I think the first might be a California poppy (they have them in Utah!). Is the foliage a bit gray-green? I can’t quite tell from the photo. Californi poppies are safe.
The second I don’t know.
I agree the third and fourth photo looks like chicories (catsear, hawksbit, dandelion), all are safe. In the third photo you also have some burr or hop clover (upper left), safe. I think the fourth one might have some chickweed in it, the one with the white flowers. I’d need a better picture but chickweed is safe.
I don’t know five or six.
Thanks a lot! I’d like to ask the same question above. Besides eatible and safe, is it good for
tortoise health compared to mustard green, dandeleon green, wheat grass which can be bought from Grocery store?
Thanks a lot! Besides eatible and safe, is it good for
tortoise health compared to mustard green, dandeleon green, wheat grass which can be bought from Grocery store?
I don't know what tortoise you have, but I think most tortoises' diets include broadleaf weeds like what you have in the 3rd and 4th photos. They are good for tort health; it's food they would find in the wild.
My greek is growing up on weeds and he seems quite healthy:
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And what’s this? It’s growing pattern looks like pic3 or pic4 but its leaf shape is differentView attachment 268116
Also some sort of broadleaf weed, dandelion. Also edible/good for torts.
Is there any typical weed which is not suitable for tortoise to eat? I think it will be easier that just put my tortoise in my yard to let it to eat whatever weed he would like to eat instead of picking up weeds by me for him.
But I’d like to make sure if there is any dangerous weed which is in my yard. At least no well-known, typical dangerous ones.
I don’t worry about my tortoise eating whatever is growing in my yard but I’m pretty open minded about feeding. There is very little out there that isn’t going to make your tort sick if they are eating a bunch of different things imo. Eating only one or two things all the time is what’s not good for tortoises.
But plenty of people don’t agree with me. Generally speaking I say to new owners not to find anything they aren’t comfortable with. Maybe pick some for now until you are really familiar with the ones no one argues about.
I have built an outside 8ft exercise yard. But my tort does not eat any of the grasses. Hates hibiscus leaves and flowers. And just walks around the outside circle of the pen wanting to escape. He eats kale and romaine and loves his mazori cubes.I have been putting him outside with supervision, for 3 days. I got him as a hatchling in February.
He has gained weight and is now 3.2 oz.on a postal scale. Any ideas how I can get him to graze?
What specie?
sorry, he is a Sulcata. Very active outdoors but likes to burrow in his container