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Age and Commercial Food
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terryo
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RE: Age and Commercial Food
One thing I want to point out is RFs are are forest torts and as such grass is not a big part of the natural diet. When mine eat grass (can't avoid it outside), it comes out the other end almost unchanged. In the wild the diet is fruits, succulent plants, and whatever animal protein they get their beaks on.
What kind of succulent plants? I thought succulent plants were cactus?
1 Southern Painted
1 Eastern Painted
1 Cherryhead Redfoot
1 Three Toed Box turtle
3 ponds, 1 indoor, 2 outdoor
"The highest form of wisdom is kindness"
Terry
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Itort
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RE: Age and Commercial Food
I used this word in broader sense meaning nonwoody, soft type plants such as dandilions, fresh leaves, and sproats. Grass is coarser and more fibrious type plant that takes a longer gut to digest then a redfoot has. Think of what we eat as opposed to cow. We are an omnivore whereas a cow is a herbivore.
Larry
This post was last modified: 05-05-2008 08:09 AM by Itort.
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terryo
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RE: Age and Commercial Food
Oh...thank you. So we should watch out when letting them outside that they don't eat too much grass? I noticed some growing (how it got here I don't know) in his new outside pen, which I didn't put him in yet, as it hasn't gotten warm enough. I was going to leave it, but I'll pull it out.
1 Southern Painted
1 Eastern Painted
1 Cherryhead Redfoot
1 Three Toed Box turtle
3 ponds, 1 indoor, 2 outdoor
"The highest form of wisdom is kindness"
Terry
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