This gras could cause constipation !

Bee62

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Hello,
today I`ll show you pictures from a poop my 17 month old sulcata tortoise do after eating a special hard gras. Unfortunately I don`t know the name of the gras. The gras is harder and wider than normal gras. Tomorrow I take pics of the original gras outside. It grows in my garden.
Three days ago I brought a grasbuckle in the enclosure of my torts and they eat it.
After soaking them this is the result: The gras is nearly undigested and clenched together. I can imagine that a lot of that gras may cause constipation.
What are your opinion ? Too much fibre ?
Btw, it might look like that, but there are no worms in the poop. It is really only gras !


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Hello,
today I`ll show you pictures from a poop my 17 month old sulcata tortoise do after eating a special hard gras. Unfortunately I don`t know the name of the gras. The gras is harder and wider than normal gras. Tomorrow I take pics of the original gras outside. It grows in my garden.
Three days ago I brought a grasbuckle in the enclosure of my torts and they eat it.
After soaking them this is the result: The gras is nearly undigested and clenched together. I can imagine that a lot of that gras may cause constipation.
What are your opinion ? Too much fibre ?
Btw, it might look like that, but there are no worms in the poop. It is really only gras !


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Thanks for sharing this bee. I would definitely like to see a pic of the grass before it was eaten. We have a type of grass that comes up around here (I call it Johnson grass) that is very tough and very few animals eat it. Because my tort is young I have never offered this tough grass.
I would not have guessed a grass could have come out so undigested. It does look like it could cause constipation especially if a tort was dehydrated for some reason.
 

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Yuck. I would not feed it to my tortoise again!
 

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Hello,
today I`ll show you pictures from a poop my 17 month old sulcata tortoise do after eating a special hard gras. Unfortunately I don`t know the name of the gras. The gras is harder and wider than normal gras. Tomorrow I take pics of the original gras outside. It grows in my garden.
Three days ago I brought a grasbuckle in the enclosure of my torts and they eat it.
After soaking them this is the result: The gras is nearly undigested and clenched together. I can imagine that a lot of that gras may cause constipation.
What are your opinion ? Too much fibre ?
Btw, it might look like that, but there are no worms in the poop. It is really only gras !


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Shame your poor torts. So glad it came out and did not stay in. It looks like it would not have been easy to pass.
 

Bee62

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Shame your poor torts. So glad it came out and did not stay in. It looks like it would not have been easy to pass.
You are right. It was not easy for them. I had to help a little bit. I am glad they are okay. They eat a lot today. Sometimes you must have luck !
 
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