Ok, so I have a giant rosemary bush can I let my tortoise munch on that? What about other herbs? I wanted to be sure and ask before I do any harm.

The answer is you can feed them herbs, but they normally won't eat them. I think it's the smell usually that stops them from eating them. Rosemary is often used in the pens as a shade plant.

Great, I just wanted to make sure that I could build my pen around the bush.
I did not want to have to pull it, since I love the fragrance and often use the herb when cooking.
Thanks again

you sound like me...lol. I love smelling rosemary and get several plants a year. At Christmas time, WalMart gets ones trimmed like Christmas trees and I always buy several. I just love rubbing my hands across them and then smelling my hands when ever I can...hmmm that sounds a little warped doesn't it?

I love it fresh on my turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Great advice! Hunter is getting one for Christmas this year. Thanks

Just remember if your putting the entire plant into the tort pen, be sure to wash off the old dirt it comes in and change it for something turtle safe. I can't remember what the soil it's potted in looks like, but usually the plants you buy have things added to the soil that's bad for torts, so be safe and repot...or plant in the enclosure's substrate itself.

The rosemary, unlike most plants, should be safe for eating right away, since it's advertised for human consumption. Myself I would give it a couple of weeks before placing in with the tort, just to be a little safer about it. Other plants need time to get the chemicals out of their system before introducing to torts.

The rosemary needs to be kept from drying out, so watch for that. That seems to be why I lose mine.

Just was thinking that could make a gret photo shoot for your Christmas card even.

This post was last modified: 10-04-2007 04:42 PM by Jacqui.

Hi, various herbs are bad to feed.
Please study or research in the herbs that are edible.

Weed identifier website...its cool

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/PE...edkey.html

What herbs have you found to be bad? From reading places like Shelled warroirs and other sites,
I have always found them to be ok. The torts normally don't eat them however because of the smell.

Are these you think are bad proven bad or just assumed? Many plants are called poisonous, but yet aren't to torts or atleast not in normal amounts.

You really have me curious now TP.

Not everything is edible to tortoises, you will find there is some herbs that arent edible, and some are.

i havent assumed, or proven anything.