Is this right?

[Maggie3fan]

Take a gander at this photo...It's of a tort rescue near me...Personally, I see 1 reason why my tort wouldn't be put there...anybody?

 

[zovick]

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Take a gander at this photo...It's of a tort rescue near me...Personally, I see 1 reason why my tort wouldn't be put there...anybody?

Too many tortoises for the space? Also they are being fed lettuce when they could be grazing on the grass, etc. already growing in the pen.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Too many tortoises for the space? Also they are being fed lettuce when they could be grazing on the grass, etc. already growing in the pen.

It's the lettuce...when I had bigger Sulcata I planted pasture grass and I only fed anything else Spring and Summer if I grew it...as an example...in this one photo I grew everything she is eating...peppers, grape leafs and Rose of Sharon...I have 13 ROS trees that feed torts 6 months outta the years...

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

Too many tortoises for the space? Also they are being fed lettuce when they could be grazing on the grass, etc. already growing in the pen.

Maybe someone donated the lettuce ?

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

That does look a lot of torts for that areahopefully it leads to a bigger space

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

That does look a lot of torts for that areahopefully it leads to a bigger space

These were my first thoughts.

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

I only see 4 tortoises in that area

 

[jaizei]

I only see 4 tortoises in that area

I'm up to 5 but who knows what's hiding in that grass

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

I only see 4 tortoises in that area

There’s 5 but they’re big guys that hopefully have lots of roaming room

 

[Tom]

If there were too many tortoises for that pen, that grass would not exist. There is no way to grow grass like that in a pen for sulcata if its too small.

And there is nothing wrong with feeding some lettuce in addition to grasses, weeds, leaves, etc... All lettuce and nothing else would be bad, but not as a watery treat for them with an otherwise varied, high calcium, high fiber diet.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

If there were too many tortoises for that pen, that grass would not exist. There is no way to grow grass like that in a pen for sulcata if its too small.

And there is nothing wrong with feeding some lettuce in addition to grasses, weeds, leaves, etc... All lettuce and nothing else would be bad, but not as a watery treat for them with an otherwise varied, high calcium, high fiber diet.

That’s a valid observation about the grass! There must be much more land we aren’t seeing