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Hello,
I would like a definitive answer as to whether it's okay to feed these two items to Gopherus Agassizii.
From Captive Desert Tortoise Diet sheet my hubby found, it includes mushroom as things to avoid. I've pulled out any that grows in the vicinity of her pens/vivarium/backyard where my tort roams...but I read others in this forum feeding store-bought mushrooms so I have given a few porcini mushrooms recently to mine and she just loved it.
Chayote is supposedly native to Central America and first domesticated in Mexico see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote In another thread, someone else (Thalia) was asking a while back if it's okay to feed it to her tort and someone responded it as "promising" but I don't think hers was a DT.
Penelope is a juvenile tort and I am always looking for a way to vary her food intake. It's getting a little mandane with spring mix and and other same old things.
DT owners? I'd appreciate any feedback.
I would like a definitive answer as to whether it's okay to feed these two items to Gopherus Agassizii.
From Captive Desert Tortoise Diet sheet my hubby found, it includes mushroom as things to avoid. I've pulled out any that grows in the vicinity of her pens/vivarium/backyard where my tort roams...but I read others in this forum feeding store-bought mushrooms so I have given a few porcini mushrooms recently to mine and she just loved it.
Chayote is supposedly native to Central America and first domesticated in Mexico see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote In another thread, someone else (Thalia) was asking a while back if it's okay to feed it to her tort and someone responded it as "promising" but I don't think hers was a DT.
Penelope is a juvenile tort and I am always looking for a way to vary her food intake. It's getting a little mandane with spring mix and and other same old things.
DT owners? I'd appreciate any feedback.