Some good meat sources include.
Feeding box turtles cat food.
It works best if you begin to to feed the insects these foods two days prior to giving them to your turtles.
Generally green and leafy things should be the largest part of turtle s diet while you should avoid fibre rich vegetables such as lettuce and celery.
These things are not good for humans either but we can make the choice to eat them or not.
Depending on the species of your tortoise about 80 of your pet tortoise s daily diet should be fresh vegetables like kale dandelions mustard and collard greens.
Basically anything high in salt or other preservatives.
Good vegetable choices include kale parsley green beans bell peppers and cabbage.
What do box turtles eat in the wild.
Tortoises like a variety of plant based foods.
Dark leafy greens such as collard greens mustard greens parsley endive escarole dandelion greens beet tops.
Sweet potatoes high quality fish flakes or cat food are good options.
Gut load the insects you intend to feed your turtles.
Good choices of vegetables for feeding your box turtle include.
For fun toss in a little green or yellow bell pepper sweet potato squash or cauliflower.
Feeding a box turtle is more difficult than other reptilesbecause of the variety of foods they require.
Box turtles enjoys eating eartworms.
Dog food semi moist canned or soaked dry food.
Although they accept cat food and cooked lean beef they even accept burger insects are the best food choice for them.
Fallen fruit often over ripe or rotten berries.
Your box turtles rely on you for their food and they would never find these things in the wild so don t feed them to captive turtles.
You should aim to feed a diet that consists of 60 meat 30 vegetable and 10 fruit.
Carrion even big carrion from mammals birds and amphibians.
Picture by wisconsin department of natural resources.
Small amounts of spinach and broccoli are also good choices.
Chinese and green cabbage green beans blackberries raspberries grapes apples with skin but not seeds papaya butternut squash romaine lettuce but it is not very nutritionally dense.
Do this by feeding the insects foods that contain calcium and other vitamins and minerals.