My little Russian is less than a year old. In the summer I happily went into the backyard everyday and picked weeds (my neighbours already know I am a few segments short of a full shell and they are used to this behaviour), grass, added hibiscus, hay, hens and chicks, spider plans, and what ever else that was safe when the mood struck.
Now it is hypothetically fall which has morphed into an early winter. We have snow so my daily frolic in the backyard is no more. I read somewhere sometime ago that with torties one does not have to have a daily varied diet as for warm blooded critters as long as it is varied over several weeks. I cannot find that article/post and I cannot remember if that was tortoise-wide or just for one species of torts or if it is even a valid article/post. My tortoise is still a baby so buying several different bundles of greens (dandelions, kale, etc.) from the grocery store will cause huge waste because she will only eat a small amount before the greens go bad. I am wondering if I can just buy one bundle of, say, kale, give her that for a week or two, and then buy a bundle of dandelion, and change every week or two with a new type of green. She does get Mazuri tort diet once a week instead of greens. She also gets multivitamins sprinkled on her greens once a week and calcium with D two or three times a week (should I be doing more or less of the calcium?).
Please understand, I am not trying to be cheap and will do what ever it takes for her to be healthy, but I do not want to waste money or food either.
Thank you
Now it is hypothetically fall which has morphed into an early winter. We have snow so my daily frolic in the backyard is no more. I read somewhere sometime ago that with torties one does not have to have a daily varied diet as for warm blooded critters as long as it is varied over several weeks. I cannot find that article/post and I cannot remember if that was tortoise-wide or just for one species of torts or if it is even a valid article/post. My tortoise is still a baby so buying several different bundles of greens (dandelions, kale, etc.) from the grocery store will cause huge waste because she will only eat a small amount before the greens go bad. I am wondering if I can just buy one bundle of, say, kale, give her that for a week or two, and then buy a bundle of dandelion, and change every week or two with a new type of green. She does get Mazuri tort diet once a week instead of greens. She also gets multivitamins sprinkled on her greens once a week and calcium with D two or three times a week (should I be doing more or less of the calcium?).
Please understand, I am not trying to be cheap and will do what ever it takes for her to be healthy, but I do not want to waste money or food either.
Thank you