Recommended diet items can be broadly classified into three types.
Baby sulcata tortoise diet list.
Clovers trifolium spp honeysuckle lonicera periclymenum preferred by t.
The bulk of their diet should be from pesticide and herbicide free grass and grass cuttings cheatgrass clover edible flowers nasturtium geraniums hibiscus rose petals and shrubs.
Dandelion prickly pear cactus pads opuntia species.
They are grazers much like a cow and love to walk all day lazily munching on it.
Grass should form the bulk of a captive sulcata s diet.
Sulcata tortoises need access to grasses and hay on which to graze.
Spring mix a blend of various greens and lettuces normally consisting of an even ratio of baby lettuces baby green romaine lettuce and red romaine lettuce tango lettuce baby green oak lettuce and red oak lettuce lolla rosa baby green leaf lettuce and red leaf lettuce baby green butter lettuce and red butter lettuce baby greens red swiss chard mizuna tatsoi baby spinach arugula frisee and raddichio.
Hawkbeards crepis spp plantains plantago spp.
Along with fresh water the most important staple in your sulcata s diet is grass.
Dandelion taraxacum officianale hawkbits leontodon spp sowthistles sonchus spp hawkweeds pictis spp.
Buffalo grass buchloe dactyloides bermuda grass orchard grass dactylis glomerata big bluestem.
Various types of nutritious grasses.
Recommended tortoise safe plants.
Weeds leaves and flowers.
Prickly pear cactus opuntia sp pads are affordable food that sulcatas eagerly consume.