Pooing
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Not usually... I have 3 and they poo BIG
Drop drop drop it is all I hear!
Not usually. Sometimes they will make noise when they are constipated.
What do you feed the tortoise, and how often do you soak?
Not a great diet. That might be your issue. Sulcatas are grass eaters. They need a high fiber diet. Grocery store greens like lettuce and spring greens are very low in fiber. Fruit should never be fed to them because the sugars mess up their GI tract.
You've got to find a way to get the right foods into your tortoise, or at least supplement and amend the grocery store greens with some fiber and variety one way or another.
Here is some diet info, and there is more diet info in the care sheet:
For Those Who Have a Young Sulcata...
Over and over I type up and answer diet questions and try to get people feeding the right stuff, but I find that the "norm" is grocery store food. Grocery store food is expensive, a hassle to obtain, and very low on the list of what is best for sulcatas. These tortoises are GRASS eaters. From...
tortoiseforum.org
The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...
tortoiseforum.org
BTW, your tortoise looks great!
Not a great diet. That might be your issue. Sulcatas are grass eaters. They need a high fiber diet. Grocery store greens like lettuce and spring greens are very low in fiber. Fruit should never be fed to them because the sugars mess up their GI tract.
You've got to find a way to get the right foods into your tortoise, or at least supplement and amend the grocery store greens with some fiber and variety one way or another.
Here is some diet info, and there is more diet info in the care sheet:
For Those Who Have a Young Sulcata...
Over and over I type up and answer diet questions and try to get people feeding the right stuff, but I find that the "norm" is grocery store food. Grocery store food is expensive, a hassle to obtain, and very low on the list of what is best for sulcatas. These tortoises are GRASS eaters. From...The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...
BTW, your tortoise looks great!
Hi yes he as grass hay but he won’t eat it thanksNot a great diet. That might be your issue. Sulcatas are grass eaters. They need a high fiber diet. Grocery store greens like lettuce and spring greens are very low in fiber. Fruit should never be fed to them because the sugars mess up their GI tract.
You've got to find a way to get the right foods into your tortoise, or at least supplement and amend the grocery store greens with some fiber and variety one way or another.
Here is some diet info, and there is more diet info in the care sheet:
For Those Who Have a Young Sulcata...
Over and over I type up and answer diet questions and try to get people feeding the right stuff, but I find that the "norm" is grocery store food. Grocery store food is expensive, a hassle to obtain, and very low on the list of what is best for sulcatas. These tortoises are GRASS eaters. From...The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...
BTW, your tortoise looks great!
Hi thanks but he dose have grass hay cattle bone but won’t eat the grass he eats dandelion ballsNot a great diet. That might be your issue. Sulcatas are grass eaters. They need a high fiber diet. Grocery store greens like lettuce and spring greens are very low in fiber. Fruit should never be fed to them because the sugars mess up their GI tract.
You've got to find a way to get the right foods into your tortoise, or at least supplement and amend the grocery store greens with some fiber and variety one way or another.
Here is some diet info, and there is more diet info in the care sheet:
For Those Who Have a Young Sulcata...
Over and over I type up and answer diet questions and try to get people feeding the right stuff, but I find that the "norm" is grocery store food. Grocery store food is expensive, a hassle to obtain, and very low on the list of what is best for sulcatas. These tortoises are GRASS eaters. From...The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...
BTW, your tortoise looks great!
None of them eat grass hay when they are little. Hay is for older, larger tortoises, and even then it must be introduced and you have to "teach" them to eat it. I don't even start trying to introduce it until they are 12+ inches.
Regardless, your tortoise needs a much better diet, and this is the reason your tortoise is having poop issues. You can improve the diet in many ways very easily, and those methods are described in the threads I linked for you. Saying the tortoise "has hay but doesn't eat it", doesn't not solve your problem, and this problem is going to get worse if you don't take action.
Thanks so much I will start adding grass to he’s feed and see how he goes xx
In my experience both of the Sulcata that I have now make very loud grunting noises when pooping. They are free fed locally grown grass hay, so their poops are mostly hay with very little feces involved in it.
I have the same experience as Maggie - my 100+ pound sulcata grunts audibly when he poops. He has nice, moist, well formed poops and has a diet of 98% growing Bermuda grass and weeds and 2% grocery store greens. I should add that his poops are quite large.
Yep Both mine as well, huge cigar shaped string of turds...grunt grunt grunt
