Hey I was just curious to how much a sulcata eats in a week? As a baby as a juvinile and an adult? For example well use romaine lettuce. Does an adult eat more then one whole lettuce bunch etc?
How much food?
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My almost 6 year old can eat a whole romaine lettuce in one sitting and still be looking for more food. I think of him as a large walking food disposal unit...
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My 100 pound Sulcata Bob would eat 5 to 7 heads of any lettuces daily. So times that by 7 then that by 4 and you have your answer.
But in the real world Bob grazes in the yard to which I add about 7 grape vines every other day or so and about 3 times a week I add a group, 3 or 4 heads of different lettuces and some softened squash. Then in the evening he and I bond together by me holding a quarter of a watermelon and he munches on it. He eats it in a funny way and it is really cool to watch him eat. He takes a large bite at first, then he eats it like we eat an ear of corn. He takes tiny bites all in a line and he does this down to the rind which is his favorite part. But the way he bites at it is so funny and he play bites then kind of laughs and then actually bites. You'd have to see it to understand what I mean, but it's a time that I really enjoy. This guy just has so much personality...
But in the real world Bob grazes in the yard to which I add about 7 grape vines every other day or so and about 3 times a week I add a group, 3 or 4 heads of different lettuces and some softened squash. Then in the evening he and I bond together by me holding a quarter of a watermelon and he munches on it. He eats it in a funny way and it is really cool to watch him eat. He takes a large bite at first, then he eats it like we eat an ear of corn. He takes tiny bites all in a line and he does this down to the rind which is his favorite part. But the way he bites at it is so funny and he play bites then kind of laughs and then actually bites. You'd have to see it to understand what I mean, but it's a time that I really enjoy. This guy just has so much personality...
maggie3fan said:
lol, Vegas does that with cactus. It is very funny to watch him go from side to side until it's all gone...
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dalano73 said:
I hired a guy to replace Bob's floor that was damaged in the Bob flood of 2011 and he was just amazed at how much personality Bob has and how much emotion he showed. He said "I never knew that tortoises could show emotion like that". Bob got very upset at his sleeping box out in the yard and his shed gutted. I took a lot of pix and will post a thread on it...
Generally, they can eat a pile of food bigger than themselves. This would be true for any size or age. I feed my adults on food trays, like what you get at McDonalds. Each one will clear an entire heaping tray of any kind of lettuce or pasture weeds and then go right back to grazing or munching on grass hay. When Scooter, Bert and Deloris were all 10-12" I wanted to see just how much they could put away. The three of them polished off 9 full heads of romaine in about 10 minutes. I stopped for fear of hurting them, but when I stopped they just walked away and starting hunting for weeds or any leaves that might have blown into their pen.
dalano73 said:
That is what they seem like most of the time, lol
Bowser gets fed everyday with a mixture of greens, vegies, flowers, and weeds
tyguy35 said:
I feed all my torts every day. Babies, adults, all of them. My adult sulcatas have constant access to grass hay and what ever weeds they want to graze in their big pen. For most of the summer, its just a little dried up grass or dead weeds, but they still munch on it. Their pen is mostly just dirt this time of year. Soon the rains will come and they will be surrounded by yummy weeds. I also feed them a whole assortment of what ever else I can find during the summer. Mulberry leaves, weeds and grass that I find, opuntia, Mazuri, grocery store greens leftover from the catering trucks at my jobs, grape leaves, hibiscus and rose of sharon blooms, roses and rose leaves, pumpkins, pumpkin leaves and blooms, ... all sorts of stuff. So, yes, they are to be fed everyday.
Yep mine get feed everyday...
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My 9yr old 47lbs.. the other day ate a 3lb box of spring mix, a very lg head of Romaine.. That was in the morning... For lunch I filled a plastic grocery bag full of grass and weeds and he ate that..Then the weather cleared I let him out and he grazed around the yard.... Winter feedings inside is going to be expensive..
They eat like cows and poop like goose... Tony will be eating and pooping at the same time...(Now poops 3 times a day and were talking a copious amount)..
They eat like cows and poop like goose... Tony will be eating and pooping at the same time...(Now poops 3 times a day and were talking a copious amount)..
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