Tortoise seed mix help

[Tortoisegirl97]

Hello,

I was just wondering if any of you knew of some fairly cheap prices of any tortoise seed mix and where to get them from easy?

Thank you xx

 

[ascott]

I believe some folks use :

http://www.carolinapetsupply.com/ca...th=115&zenid=e5076f0c702d9e2718364478c588f1fb

 

[ZEROPILOT]

+1 Carolina supply. Also, make a copy of the list of plants eaten by your tortoise and go to the hardware store. Envelopes of seeds are very cheap. Grow your own food that way.

 

[Dizisdalife]

I have had good luck with seeds from Carolina Pet Supply. Also have purchased from Grow Organic. I like their pasture mixes like this one http://www.groworganic.com/seeds/pasture-seed/irrigated-pasture-mixes.html.
Tortoise Supply.com has some good mixes too. Their Testudo Mix has a good variety of broad leaf plants that produce lots of food. http://www.tortoisesupply.com/TestudoMix

 

[Tom]

For grass eating species there is nothing better than this one:
http://www.groworganic.com/premium-horse-pasture-mix-irrigation.html
Seriously. I have tried all sorts of mixes from all sorts of sources. Even other grass mixes from this same seller. NOTHING produces or grows better than this particular mix. I've grown this one side by side in the same planter with other mixes, and there is just no comparison. I highly recommend growing lots of this if you are feeding a sulcata or SA leopard.


And for broadleaf weed eaters, and all other species too, nothing beats this one from Tyler and Sarah:
http://www.tortoisesupply.com/TestudoMix
I have it growing in 8 different planter beds and it just keeps producing crop after crop after crop. This is the main food I use throughout spring summer and fall. For my grass eaters, I either mix it with grass clippings or feed it to them on a bed of grass hay. I've tried other seed mixes and other seed, but this one just grows so well for me and produces so much food that I stopped bothering with all the other mixes. Outdoors it slows down over winter, but it comes back with a vengeance every spring. My tortoises eat wild weeds and grass all winter when our rains come, so this system works out perfectly for me.


I don't see how ordering could get any easier and they bring it to your door. When you consider what these two mixes provide food wise, the price is negligible. One 4x8 planter bed of either of the above two mixes will fill my five gallon feed bucket once a week for the entire spring and summer seasons. It takes about 10 heads of endive to fill that same bucket. Endive typically sells for $2 a bunch here, so that's the equivalent of $20 a week worth of food, and I get that much week after week after week for 7-8 months a year from EACH planter bed. A pound of Tyler's seed will plant around 3-4 4x8' planter beds depending on how thick you plant it. And I think I might be planting it much too densely, so it could be spread out even more.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

http://www.tortoisesupply.com/SeedMixes My russian also like the Italian dandelion, and the testudo mix is great.