Squash cooked or raw

[Itort]

I wondering how many feed winter squash raw as opposed to cooked. I feed mine raw as I feel helps with beak maintenance ( these are adult and juveniles).

 

[Edna]

I like the idea of raw, but can hardly get a knife into it raw to cut it into pieces. I feed it to adult and semi-adult Hermanns, and I have to par-boil it to be able to cut it.

 

[Len B]

I feed it to them raw and cut it according to to size of the tortoise, except Walker, he gets the whole thing uncut.

 

[tami]

I use a cheese grater for any veggie that's to hard for my torts to eat whole or chunk!!

 

[Jacqui]

Here it depends who I am feeding, some get cooked, some get ground up in the blender, and some get raw chunks (or whole for the big guys). Then I also freeze some for later usage when they are more expensive then this time of year to grow or buy.

 

[wellington]

I had heard once to put the squash in the microwave for 2minutes and it will make it easier to cut. If still a little,hard, can do it for one more minute. I had done it one time and it worked.

 

[tiff3grl]

My sulcatas love it raw.