I have 7 rescued cherry head and regular red foot babies about 1 or 2 years old. I set them up in two rubbermaid tubs and some how or another I must've included a pregnant cricket in their substrate. I noticed a couple days later that there were many...many smaller than pinhead crickets running all over one of the habitats. I have seen the little RF's eating baby crickets. They also eat butter worms and cut up night crawlers. (a suggestion if you don't want to feed them cat food)

Yvonne

Oh they are getting a varied diet, including crickets and worms. I just wanted to add another variance in, as in the organ meat.


PS: Yvonne youve got me ooogling over Mtn Torts right now and trying to figure out how I can fit them into my future tort plans!

This post was last modified: 02-04-2008 01:12 PM by JustAnja.

PS: Yvonne youve got me ooogling over Mtn Torts right now and trying to figure out how I can fit them into my future tort plans!

They are similar to box turtles in their personalities. But they are VERY VERY slow and quite prehistoric. I have a bird flight in the same lath house where the Burmese houses are and one morning at zero dark thirty as I was tending to the birds prior to leaving for work I just had an inkling that I needed to look down at my leg. It was dark...about 5:30a, and there were no tortoises around when I started filling the bird's feeders. The largest female Burmese had crept up on me and was about to take a bite out of my leg. Thank goodness they are so slow. I was able to save myself!!

Yvonne

Is chicken hearts OK, or just beef? Also should I sprinkle some calcium on the hearts? I would only do this once a week.

Chicken hearts are just fine too Terry

Danny

JustAnja Wrote:

PS: Yvonne youve got me ooogling over Mtn Torts right now and trying to figure out how I can fit them into my future tort plans!

They are similar to box turtles in their personalities. But they are VERY VERY slow and quite prehistoric. I have a bird flight in the same lath house where the Burmese houses are and one morning at zero dark thirty as I was tending to the birds prior to leaving for work I just had an inkling that I needed to look down at my leg. It was dark...about 5:30a, and there were no tortoises around when I started filling the bird's feeders. The largest female Burmese had crept up on me and was about to take a bite out of my leg. Thank goodness they are so slow. I was able to save myself!!

Yvonne

Thats quite comical Yvonne! Eventually I want a larger species but not quite as large as an Aldabra until I own my own land and have tons of space to dedicate to them.

I think my RFs are starting to bribe the Ball Python to make his hunger strikes longer.

I would never feed my red foots organ meat.

And thats your choice, we all have that choice to make. I would never feed my Redfoots something that was developed for Mammals.

It is recommended by an expert breeder.....