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Someone had mentioned a few months back about ingredients for a box turtle salad. I remember they mixed a bunch of stuff, put it in the blender, dumped into ice trays, and froze. Then when needed they popped a cube or two out to thaw and serve. Does anyone have a recipe?

Thanks,
Shawnon

why do ppl do that? its nothing like what they eat in the wild. just give them all kinds of different foods on diferent days. like one day you feed butterworms and the next you use grapes and the next you use mashed up chicken with greens all choped up in it and the next day you give em earthworms and so on. everyday diffrent. strawberry mealworms kiwi carot slugs mushrome mango cricket silkworm sweetpotato waxworms sowbugs ....... like that. keep cuttle bones in there to.

These make excellent supplements to turtle diets.But in my experince they work better for turtles which are not picky eaters to begin with. So if you are having trouble geting some box turtle to eat good foods this migt not work...course if you have any aquatics, they sually take it easuilt if you add enough shrimp t make it stinky.
The basic idea with these is that you can include extra calcium and vitamins and minerals in the food. You can also control the protein and fiber intake and reduce the fat associated with live foods and meats.
There are receipes floating about but basically they all involve use of a gelatine (Knox is the only kind i have been able to get here in the States, its made by Kraft)as a base and a mixing in of various food of choice in semi liquid form at a high temperature.
Cooling then freezing allows for proper setting and long term storage.

I put collard greens, okra, squash, & sweet potato in my turtle mush. I mix it in a blender and then pour it into freezer bags, work the air out, flatten the bag, and freeze it. That way, I can just break off however big a piece I need and pop it in the microwave for a defrost. I'll mix it with vitamins and calcium, then reptamin, chicken, or whatever protein source I'm feeding them that day. Mine usually don't eat just the plain mush - I have to mix it with something smelly as was mentioned in another post or I plop some worms or crickets down in the middle of it.