Is that true "they will stuff themselves till they burst"? How will I know if I'm overfeeding???
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No, it's not true that they will stuff themselves until they burst. Also pyramiding is related to the conditions in which they're kept, and diet is at best a small part of that.Is that true "they will stuff themselves till they burst"? How will I know if I'm overfeeding???
I only feed mine once a day in the morning, There are 25 all told. So about half a romaine lettuce & some stalks of coriander or cucumber peelings etc etc . Even if I put out 3 times as much it would still disappear. So I will not kill them with kindness, which is a bad fault. BUT the only exception is to make sure that the babies have a good feed. at least 2 hours of chomping away, free from the older ones , who would scoff the lot before the babies could eat their fill.Is that true "they will stuff themselves till they burst"? How will I know if I'm overfeeding???
Is that true "they will stuff themselves till they burst"? How will I know if I'm overfeeding???
Exactly how do you tell if your tortoise is over weight?
Possibly if they can't pull their head in at all? That would raise few flags!I ask cause I have a sulcata hatchling that seems to be fatter then the others. When he pulls into his shell I notice his skin puffs out a lot.
Why does this discussion make me recall a scene from a Monty Python movie? Does a tortoise know the meaning of life?