Should I feed pellets?

[TiddlesTheTortoise2]

I don’t feed my tortoise pellets just fresh vegetables but I’ve seen a lot of people on this forum who are feeding their tortoises pellets! Should I be feeding them???

 

[Maro2Bear]

The good thing about feeding pellets of some type is that usually they have added ingredients that are usually beneficial to a torts overall health and welfare. Regardless of what natural ingredients you feed, especially in the UK, there are probably many trace elements of minerals & vitamins & stuff that are not available. Sooooo, a good pellet will have those compounds & make a healthy tort.

For example, Mazuri tort pellets:

Ground soybean hulls, ground corn, dehulled soybean meal, ground oats, wheat middlings, cane molasses, dehydrated alfalfa meal, wheat germ, dicalcium phosphate, soybean oil, brewers dried yeast, calcium carbonate, salt, dl-methionine, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate (form of vitamin E), biotin, cholecalciferol, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K), calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, folic acid, riboflavin, preserved with mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, nicotinic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, citric acid, l-lysine, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate.

 

[TiddlesTheTortoise2]

The good thing about feeding pellets of some type is that usually they have added ingredients that are usually beneficial to a torts overall health and welfare. Regardless of what natural ingredients you feed, especially in the UK, there are probably many trace elements of minerals & vitamins & stuff that are not available. Sooooo, a good pellet will have those compounds & make a healthy tort.

For example, Mazuri tort pellets:

Ground soybean hulls, ground corn, dehulled soybean meal, ground oats, wheat middlings, cane molasses, dehydrated alfalfa meal, wheat germ, dicalcium phosphate, soybean oil, brewers dried yeast, calcium carbonate, salt, dl-methionine, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate (form of vitamin E), biotin, cholecalciferol, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K), calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, folic acid, riboflavin, preserved with mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, nicotinic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, citric acid, l-lysine, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate.

So do you recommend I should buy them and if I do how often should I feed them to my tort