MoreCowbellAz
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I've long given my 4 year old DT lots of fresh grasses, grassland pellets, etc., all of which he loves, but only now am starting with orchard grass hay. I chopped some up yesterday into maybe 3mm pieces, dampened, and he loved it all by itself. Even with orchard grass hay, I noticed there's far more/bigger stems than what you'd see in just regular grass clippings for instance. That raised a curiosity, how in the heck do tortoises eat hay just in a pile, not cut up or sorted (stems from smaller parts)? Even with this orchard grass hay, there's lots of thicker stems and whatnot that I can't see them just biting through like they would a leave for example, seems like that could be a choking hazard. Dry, some of those stems are tough to cut even with scissors. Do they just work around the stems and eat the easy parts, and somehow know to now try to swallow a huge, long stems?
My DT is 4 years old, about 7.25", about 2.5 lbs.
My DT is 4 years old, about 7.25", about 2.5 lbs.