Garden behaviours

[Sunshine]

Hi everyone
I know we all live all over the world but this is more of a gereric question around garden behaviour.. Herbie has an outdoor run which she enjoys but spends 90% of her time trying to eat small/ medium even large stones! I worry that she will choke! She loves climbing and digging but no area I can provide her is 100% stone free unless lawn and she doesn't seem to enjoy that and just hides in her hide.
The soil here is dark and not sandy at all, it is full of stones. We will move soon and I'd like to build her a larger garden area but I also want to be able to leave her without worrying she will swallow one.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Big thanks!!
Helen & Herbie

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ps she does have a cuttlebone and regular dustings of multivit and calcium on her food

 

[Edna]

My Hermanns sample all the stones in their enclosures, indoors and out. Biting stones, gnawing on stones, could be an expression of curiosity, or bordom, or could be beak maintenance, the equivalent of a cat sharpening its claws on a tree.

 

[Laurie]

When Tootsie roll is outside, she seems to try to take a bite of everything she comes across. I imagine she's walking around thinking, can I eat this?! She is such a piggy though! I had to block off half of her enclosure because I had seeds down that had not sprouted yet, I went to check on her and saw her eating seed after seed!

 

[Edna]

She wants to cut out the middle-sprout and just go straight for the seed lol.

 

[wellington]

If you can't take all the stones out, maybe cover them with sod or dirt. I would tap them all down into the ground the best I could, then cover them with new dirt or sod.

 

[Laurie]

She wants to cut out the middle-sprout and just go straight for the seed lol.

Ba dump bump!!!! Lol

 

[Sunshine]

Ah thanks everyone I will try these suggestions! I know she's just being inquisitive but the I've caught her trying to swallow a few of the smaller ones - I will bury them down and try not to worry!