Baby Button is still quite tiny; she fits on my shoe top, so she eats her breakfast by herself. She gets bullied by the others, even the rather small Mosquito!
Dusty and Mosquito eating breakfast. Milagro, the largest by far of the four, has finished eating so she's walked away.
These tiny tortoises are lucky, as they are hand fed everyday. The older torts have to forage for their food, eating the tall weeds that they can bulldoze over in the garden and eating the leaves, as well as any dried grasses they can find. Poko, the mother tort eats Euphorbias, as well.
We do feed them, later in the year, with some greens, spent roses, and elm leaves from a stump that is still growing. They also eat other fallen flowers. I can't plant day lilies because they dig up and eat them every time!
Love hearing about the tortoises! yummy stuff
ReplyDeleteHiya PJ, and thanks for joggling my brain about the tortoise pix from Ohio. Summer is here so the babies will also get to go outside and eat some grass that we are sure hasn't been round up'd of some other such thing. They can go with us to the bay, I think.
ReplyDeleteThe city is careful because baby humans play on the grasses, so the gardeners are prudent and kind about taking care to keep anything harmful out of the care of the lawns. The baby torts will love going there, like their parents before them have. We have to protect the babies from birds because the seagulls and ravens would love to eat them! We have a special cage for them.