I've been really trying to feed my torts a lot more lately to try and get them to leave the new weeds in their pen alone. This is easy as I have hundreds of acres of safe, untouched, unkempt, unsprayed weeds and grass around me. I've been giving them bags full, plus they still have their bermuda grass hay always available. So, they eat the dry stuff, then a mound of mallow, filaree, hawksbeard, mustard and two kinds of grass as big as they are, then, when the weed pile is all gone, and I do mean ALL gone, they immediately go over and and start munching away on the newly sprouting weeds. Each tort eats a pile of weeds bigger than they are, in addition to the dry grass hay and then the sprouting weeds! Temps here have only been in the 50's and it doesn't even slow them down.
Its just amazing what they can put away. In the past I've tried to see how much it would take to fill them up, but I always stopped short after some obscene amount of food, because I'm afraid they're going to hurt themselves. I used to do this with my saltwater pufferfish too. They never quit either. Seriously. I know small horses and cows who don't eat this much. My donkey doesn't eat this much!!!
Anybody who's got a young sullie or wants one, go back and look at that pic of Maggies' fridge and really consider what you are getting into.
Its just amazing what they can put away. In the past I've tried to see how much it would take to fill them up, but I always stopped short after some obscene amount of food, because I'm afraid they're going to hurt themselves. I used to do this with my saltwater pufferfish too. They never quit either. Seriously. I know small horses and cows who don't eat this much. My donkey doesn't eat this much!!!
Anybody who's got a young sullie or wants one, go back and look at that pic of Maggies' fridge and really consider what you are getting into.