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16-06-2015, 08:31 PM
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Eating Grass
I am interested in whose torts, well med torts who enjoy eating grass please?
I have moved two Margies recently from a dry rocky enclosure. To freeroam an area with a large lawn. Well as well as demolishing my plant collection they seem obsessed with eating grass. Each time I look out theyre grazing. Consequently their poos now resemble cow pats! Anyone else got any observations on this? |
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16-06-2015, 08:38 PM
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I have a few thb that will but not a lot are you sure they are not getting the clover.
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16-06-2015, 08:51 PM
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There is clover too Gordon so maybe but consuming grass with it
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16-06-2015, 08:55 PM
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Both of my Ibera eat grass.
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16-06-2015, 08:58 PM
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My margies are obsessed with eating grass too, they love it, and some times do cow pats, so I do have to make sure they get enough pre alpin .
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16-06-2015, 09:02 PM
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My hermanns don't eat grass other than small greedy ones that will try to eat any green plant material.
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16-06-2015, 09:32 PM
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16-06-2015, 10:30 PM
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Mine look like they are eating grass but they are not, they munch on these tiny yellow flowers which grows in the grass also a bit clover
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19-06-2015, 04:13 PM
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two of mine chomp grass like cows no discrimination to clover, vetch, dandelions, nothing. Wolfgang's book said they can't digest it but mine have ok poops.
If I put them in a row I swear they would make tennis court lawn stripes - they mow it.
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19-06-2015, 04:23 PM
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