Baby Sulcata food
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you can collect weeds are grasses from your lawn for the baby to eat. also i feed my sulcata grassland tortoise food once a week
do you have any hibiscus plants in your yard?
Sulcata's are grazers, so they need to eat weeds like ( @Tom has this big list of all these great weeds and things 
)dandelion (and variations) and plantain. Grass is always a go to food!(if he'll eat it, which should be a goal) Does he always eat spring mix?
I just saw you post! Places like TortoiseSupple sell seed mixes of yummy weeds, and even grass like Bermuda (YUM) that you can plant... I have some, and they grew sooo fast, nice and bushy now!
)dandelion (and variations) and plantain. Grass is always a go to food!(if he'll eat it, which should be a goal) Does he always eat spring mix?I just saw you post! Places like TortoiseSupple sell seed mixes of yummy weeds, and even grass like Bermuda (YUM) that you can plant... I have some, and they grew sooo fast, nice and bushy now!
I've had many of their seeds, but my favorite is the Italian dandelion Everybody loves it!
Everybody loves it!
I've heard people who get that and sprinkle it over food. It's beneficial. Can you grow seeds where you live? My weeds are growing like crazy
Their herbal hay is great.
Here is my list:
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/for-those-who-have-a-young-sulcata.76744/
Anyone who owns a tortoise should not have a yard that gets "treated for winter". I don't know what chemicals were just put on your grass, but that is a tortoise keepers number one place to get and grow their own food. Especially for a grass eating sulcata. Time for you to choose if you want to have a nice green, weed free lawn, or a sulcata...
I have a over 100 acres in the country for food, with a big plot. However while my Sulcata is young and its winter it will stay in my house in town. I'm just looking for foods that I can put away in the house for now.
Tom was informing you to be cautious of what weeds and grass you give to your tortoise. Your tortoise could die if it eats something with the wrong chemicals on it. Some have had to learn the hard way and he doesn't want that to happen to you or anyone. It's better for him to have said it instead of not doing so and wondering if it should have been mentioned. You absolutely can have a tortoise and a nice lawn! Grass is just a great option and has great fiber in it. When your sulcata gets bigger, grass is a great food source that they can graze on like cows all day if they want, creating a not so pretty lawn that many sulcata members have.
I'm jealous that you have so much land and you know how it has been treated, not to mention space for your sulcata! I live in a town that has a lot of country areas, with a jaw dropping amount of edible weeds. I just don't know what it's been treated with, so its not worth trying to feed it.
I totally understand that, That's why after winter and its gets bigger I will move it to my pasture. In the meantime I wanted a few ideas to help with food. It was 30 outside the other day, most of the grass and weeds will die soon and I will have to buy food anyway.
Cool! Thanks for being open and not getting offended. Hopefully you can figure something out for easy access to food for your baby(?).
I stand corrected. If your tortoise will not set foot in your yard and gets its food from other areas, then all the lawn chemicals in the world won't hurt a thing. Not as far as your tortoise is concerned anyway...
I'm glad I could help, and hope to continue, if you need it!
But I'm still not putting any chemicals on my lawn...
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