Preparing food for all my tortoises (WINTER) | happy tortoises
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- In today's video I will show you how I prepare the food for all my tortoises over the winter months in the UK. I currently have leopard, radiated and mediterranean spur-thighed ("greek") tortoises.
In the colder months in the UK it is often more difficult to find the food for them, so this video is to show you what I do to give them fresh food as much as possible in the winter, as well as what foods I'd give them to ensure they STILL have a high fibre diet when I can't get hold of the fresh foods.
Please bear in mind that I will be showing ONE day's winter foods and if I needed to do this for another couple of days then I would give them a DIFFERENT selection of foods on EACH day to give them the variety that they need.
I hope you enjoy the video and as always, please post any questions, feedback, other tips you have & video suggestions in the comments below!
Thanks so much to all of you that have taken the time to post feedback, questions, video ideas and lovely comments - I really appreciate the support and motivation you have given me to keep making these videos! THANK-YOU ALL!!
My other videos you may find interesting are:
"grow your own tortoise food" - coming soon!
"Preparing food for 17 tortoises in the autumn/fall months" - • Preparing food for 17 ...
"Feeding your baby leopard tortoise" - • What to feed your baby...
"what to feed greek tortoises" - coming soon!
"what to feed radiated tortoises" - coming soon!
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Awesome video! I'm getting my first tortoise tomorrow (Spur Thighed). Loads of helpful information! Many thanks
I love your videos! Your voice and style of videos are so organized and relaxing! Without context people will think you are growing weed for smoking🤣🤣🤣❤️
Thanks for your lovely feedback, much appreciated! 🙏😊 Haha - you're not the first person to say that!! 🤣🤣
Very nice , I enjoy all of your videos. Watching from Reunion Island (France)
Please can you tell me where I buy seeds to grow for my Spur High tortoise
Thank You so much
Barbra. U K
Barbra Jacobs Ebay has lots of seed mixes x
Hi I really like your video. Can i ask this question why is it that some people say dont feed your tortoise on salads only weeds ? My breeder thats been breeding tortoise for over 20years said you can feed your tortoise on salads? It's really confusing as i feed my 4 month old salad with dandelions.
Kind regards
Josh
because salad has little to no nutritional value. it's basically crunchy water, which isn't bad, but leopard tortoises need a high fibre diet.
Do you feed them the brown plantain leaves or the dirty looking ones?
in Canada, we have snow :( and i'm thinking about getting a leopard tortoise... is there any way i could grow everything indoors? please reply. :) thanks
I'm in Canada and I am also a gardener as well as a new tortoise owner. You could grow everything indoors for a tort but I think you would have a big light bill to do it. I run a 600 watt HID light to grow in a 4 X 4 foot area. Costs me $29 a month. I'm growing orchids, cactus, bromeliads, geraniums and some other plants in that area. My tortoise gets a bit of over flow from the grow area but no where near what she eats. One of the best foods for torts seems to be plantain. It grows like a weed out doors, because it is a weed, but I have never tried growing it indoors. I will save seeds from wild one this summer and try to grow it indoors next winter. Now I am now sprouting barley seeds. I will try oats and wheat at some point. I am hopeful that sprouted seeds will be good food in the winter. It's not easy giving tortoises a good diet up north.
You can grow anything inside, I grow from collards to Cannabis, just don't cheap out on the light, just like the torts, they need correct lighting to thrive too.
Where can you buy the fibre mix or do you make it yourself?
I bought it on-line... (from shelled warriors)
I've not thought of making it myself... now that's an idea! 😂 I might just have to give that a go! 🐢
Make more vidoes pls
Sure, will do 😊! I'm working on a bunch of videos at the moment (these ones are taking a little longer than normal, but I'm still hoping to post a new video every 1-2 weeks!). Thanks for your support 😊🐢
Don't you worry that dogs might have pee'd on the weed picked from the side of a path? This is what puts me off.