My Chucks just go crazy for sweet potatoes! I feed my Black Mountain Tortoise lots of sweet potatoes and thought I'd see if the chucks would try it. Mr. Chuckles pounced on it and actually climbs up my arm to get it. Not bad for an adult wild caught chuck that's been in captivity less than a year! I sometimes mash it and use it to introduce new foods that I’ll mix in with it. Works every time!

They also eat lots of Collards... Not the lizards! Weeds, tortoise pellets, grape leaves, hibiscus flowers and leaves, carrots, they love clover grass, alyssum, and various naturally occurring vegetation that I'll pick when I go out to the desert (Usually grasses, creosote, and Palo Verde flowers) Both also like dried foods as well... Sun dried grasses, and weeds sprinkled on their salads or scattered loosely in the cages.

I've got a gigantic type of weed growing that has leaves that look like watermelon vine leaves. It grows about 3ft tall, and has one leaf per stem. I want to post a pic of it and find out if it’s edible or not. I'll try to post a pic this weekend.

Thanks for posting! And the rest of you out there that haven't posted, take the time to do so. Pics of weeds that grow in our yards that are both edible and poisonous would be very useful to everyone.

-Kory

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