Can redfoots eat boiled sweet potatoes??
Mine eat every allowable food I put in front of them so I was wanting to try sweet potatoes.
Mine eat every allowable food I put in front of them so I was wanting to try sweet potatoes.
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Seems like tortoises prefer raw over cooked foods. I used to give my redfoot many different types of fruits, but I never offered her boiled sweet potatoes. We'll see what others say, but if it were my redfoot, I would only stick with what she could eat raw. Given that tubers (potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, etc.) are so firm, I would not offer them to my redfoot tortoise, either raw or cooked.
I have given mine raw yam and they like it.
Good question. We will see what others say.
Good question. We will see what others say.
I just boiled them until they were barely soft as my tortoises are still so little. Needless to say they LOVED them!!
Sweet potatoes are almost a super-dose of Vitamin A. They also have many, many other minerals and vitamins to offer, and most of them in abundance. I commonly feed sweet potatoes to my red foots, and they seem to like them. To prepare, I grate it and mix it in with their greens. I've heard some do boil it til its soft, so you have just a big mushy potato they can easily bite, but I grate most things so my tortoises can't be picky.
In short, its perfectly fine to add and can be safely added to the 5-10% vegetable part of any red foots diet.
In short, its perfectly fine to add and can be safely added to the 5-10% vegetable part of any red foots diet.
Cool! Good to know. 
(www.livestrong.com) and (www.nutritiondata.com) are really good sites I commonly use for nutritional info.
Thanks all for the insight!!
I try to give my redfoots sweet potato regularly, but they never really eat it. Not sure why...maybe if I dye it red.
Mine seem to like them best when baked or microwaved over the boiled or grated.
I feed mine boiled sweet potato..he loves it. I tried it raw and he refused it. Squash is good also...
Mine get raw yams shredded from time to time....trick is to mix it so they cant get picky
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I have fed my torts potato before but they didn't care for it much. My torts do liked steamed veggies. I fed them steamed cauliflower and they loved it. I think things like cauliflower or broccoli should be steamed because they are just so crunchy for a tort.
My RF loves part boiled (cold) sweet potato and squash
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