Mushrooms

[HouKen]

I have not seen mushrooms listed as ok for leopards on any of the lists I have found. Is it ok to offer them mushrooms?

 

[yagyujubei]

Sure, but mine won't eat 'em.

I have not seen mushrooms listed as ok for leopards on any of the lists I have found. Is it ok to offer them mushrooms?

 

[Baoh]

Mine do. They were eating oyster mushrooms and portabella yesterday and the day before along with green bell peppers, as I had a lot more than my slow cooker capacity could handle. My tortoises are generally pretty effective food waste disposals. On a side note, a deer died from a wound behind my house. The tortoises just kept pacing the back fence and would not eat (except for one) because they could smell it. They only resumed grazing when the corpse was removed. I am of the belief that they wanted to get at it.

 

[mikeh]

Re: RE: Mushrooms

Mine do. They were eating oyster mushrooms and portabella yesterday and the day before along with green bell peppers, as I had a lot more than my slow cooker capacity could handle. My tortoises are generally pretty effective food waste disposals. On a side note, a deer died from a wound behind my house. The tortoises just kept pacing the back fence and would not eat (except for one) because they could smell it. They only resumed grazing when the corpse was removed. I am of the belief that they wanted to get at it.

Even the leopards?

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Trying to get to the corps?

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[Tom]

I have not seen mushrooms listed as ok for leopards on any of the lists I have found. Is it ok to offer them mushrooms?

Any of the mushrooms fit for human consumption are fine. I offer them to all my tortoises from time to time and they seem to like them.

I would not, however, go picking random mushrooms from outside. Some of those are deadly toxic, and they can be very tricky to ID sometimes.

 

[Baoh]

Mine do. They were eating oyster mushrooms and portabella yesterday and the day before along with green bell peppers, as I had a lot more than my slow cooker capacity could handle. My tortoises are generally pretty effective food waste disposals. On a side note, a deer died from a wound behind my house. The tortoises just kept pacing the back fence and would not eat (except for one) because they could smell it. They only resumed grazing when the corpse was removed. I am of the belief that they wanted to get at it.

Even the leopards?

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Trying to get to the corps?

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Yes. The only one who ignored it was my female Sudanese sulcata. My leopards will eat carrion readily. Not as avid as the forest animals, but close enough.

 

[mikeh]

Boah: how much mushrooms and carrion , and at what frequency do you allow your leopards to eat?
I've been giving my baby leopard oyster mushrooms mixed with grass and weeds once a week.

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[Baoh]

Whenever it is available. It is not planned. They (adults) are usually busy grazing on grass. My babies eat mainly sprouts, Mazuri, some mixed greens (mainly turnip greens), some random weeds, and whatever invertebrates they can catch (they will chase down worms, isopods, small snails, and some other stuff). I really do not limit them. I let them teach me how it is.

 

[kathyth]

Very informative thread. I was limiting mushrooms to my Redfoots!
Thanks all!

 

[HouKen]

Thanks everyone... My reds and yellows like mushrooms, my Burmese blacks love mushrooms.