If you live near a mountain road, or an underdeveloped area take a drive or a walk and collect some dandelions and misc weeds. Be sure to take pics and post them if you are not sure if they are edible.

I'll ocasionally drive out to the desert and pick a few flowers, and leaves from the areas where I actually caught my chucks. They like dried weeds and flowers just as much as the green stuff.

I no longer feed any store bought veggies to my chucks, they do far better on the weeds that I leave growing around the yard.. However, as a treat I will add fresh steamed, or grated sweet potato, and Mazuri tortoise food quite often.

Go real easy on supplements.. Chucks seem to be really delicate and sensitive to vitamins. I offer vitamins once a month if even that. I feel that they probably get toxic levels built up because of their ability to go long periods without food or water in the wild. I read something about their lymph systems and water storage some time ago... probably here

Some of the best rocks that I've found are at Home Depot... They are the paver stones, and are about 2 inches thick, and stack prefectly, and offer perfect crevices that are safe for a chuck to hide in. I also use cleaned playground sand, and mix in lava, and mexican river pebbles etc...

Good luck!
-Kory

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