This is an attempt to compile a chart of the food value of the more common vegetables. Serving Suggestions Grated stems of broccoli and cauliflower, mixed with your choice of roughage, usually appeals even to the most spoiled tortoise. To this mixture chopped leaves of less palatable vegetables may be added and served on crisp turnip greens or juicy lettuce. Rabbit pellets are a most economical and practical roughage. If sprinkled with a handful of water the evening before use, they are of a crumbly consistency easily pulverized for small animals.
Tortoises are extremely susceptible to colors.
They prefer green, yellow, and red, although they love the white clover blossoms. At different times of the year it appears they are partial to just one of the above colors, ignoring the others. Domestic Foods - Vegetables are served raw unless otherwise stated.