OliveW
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I usually feed him romaine, green leaf and dandelions and occasionally give red leaf and raddichio. I have chicory, timothy, alfalfa, orchard, fescue, bermuda growing in the grazing areas. I was told to keep away from kale, mazuri, and the usual stuff like spinach. Anything with high calcium, I'm still learning what everything can be lol. He's also needs at least 1 bath a week now. They told me since he had a stone he's prone to get it again so I have to minimize the chances of him getting it again. He had to live in the kitchen for 10 weeks since our garage is to full and cleaning poo and pee every day wasn't any fun. Plus once a week for 12 weeks he got 2 shots.
A 55 pound tortoise living in your kitchen for 10 weeks takes some serious commitment. 😂
My sully is probably about 9 lbs now, and he passed a stone about half the size of yours, so it's pretty impressive for his size. 😮
I've never fed spinach or kale. Our "grazing area" is anywhere on our property (8 acres) that he wants to wander. It's all Florida weeds. He does ignore certain things and aggressively eats others. I spend weeks looking up every weed that he chooses on phone apps. It was exhausting. There are literally hundreds of different weeds. I now just leave it up to him what to eat when he's grazing.
Organic Timothy hay came this evening, from the Prime driver, so he'll be trying it tomorrow. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to try soaking it first.
Tortimer gets a soak daily. I just moved up his time from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. We've had him four months and he's only missed a soak three days during that time. I even soaked him when I had covid. LOL He's really used to it, and KNOWS when he's getting put in a soak and tries to run from me. But once he's in the water, he just relaxes and chills. He doesn't even bother trying to climb out anymore.
I'm super diligent about soaking him due to his condition when we first got him. As much as he drank and self soaked, I feel like he was not far from complete dehydration. I had thought about cutting him back to three times a week during the winter months, but that idea is completely out the window after this bladder stone. Daily soaks, it is.