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mvickers

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Hello all, I am new to this group. I have a 14 year old sulcata. I think I overfed him on leafy greens and not enough hay and now I cannot get him to eat his hay. I stopped giving him romaine with the e-coli outbreak. Suggestions?
 

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Hello and welcome.
I do not keep Sulcata. But it sounds like he has gotten spoiled and is now not interested in the hay.
Keep offering it. Maybe wet it down a little.
 

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Hello and welcome to the forum! Is he into grass?
 

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Welcome! I'd try introducing little bits of of other foods mixed in with what it likes best. It'll come around eventually.
 

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Hi, and welcome!

Does he live outside and is there plenty of fresh weeds and grasses to graze on?
 

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You can do a slow change. Chop some of the Bermuda up and toss it with moist romaine (or whatever leafy green you can get). Over time keep putting more of the grass on the lettuce. At some point it will be that the lettuce is covered in chopped dry or fresh cut grasses. Then start chopping up the lettuce and sprinkling it on the grass, fresh from out side or chopped dry. At that point offer the lettuce less and less. Each tortoise has it's own rate of progression on this and some may hold out one day for lettuce the next, don't give in, stay the course and soon enough your sulcata will just graze.

BTW welcome to TFO from a neighbor in Carlsbad.
 

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