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Anonymous users2024-02-06Turtles can be specialized feed, can eat earthworms, silkworm chrysalis, snails and other animals, but also can eat pumpkin, winter melon and other vegetables.
A turtle is an omnivore, and there are many foods that it can eat, and its food is divided into feed, animal food, and plant food.
1. Feed
The special turtle feed is nutritionally comprehensive and has many varieties, which are divided into juvenile, young and adult turtle feed according to the growth stage. The effect of feeding turtles with these feeds is very significant, and the growth rate, egg laying rate, egg production, hatching rate, and survival rate of turtles have also improved.
2. Animal food
Such as earthworms, silkworm pupa, snails, mealworms, small fish and shrimp, snail shellfish, among which small fish and shrimp are also its favorites, you can also eat animal scraps pig blood, internal organs and moths, insects, etc., so that animal food protein and fat content is higher, can promote the growth rate of turtles and increase the number of turtles to reproduce and lay eggs. If the turtle is fed meat, it is better to chop it up and remove the bones.
3. Plant foods
Such as beans, peanuts, corn, sorghum, wheat, rice, millet, pumpkin, winter melon, watermelon rind, apple peel, duckweed and tender grassand potatoes, you can also feed carrots, spinach and other vitamin-rich vegetables, plant foods are rich in vitamins, which are indispensable for the growth of turtles.
Precautions
Don't feed the turtle too often, and control the amount of feeding, because the turtle has a slower metabolism and eating too much may cause indigestion.
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Anonymous users2024-02-051.The turtle cannot eat high-salt food, and its body mechanisms cannot metabolize it; Turtles cannot eat high-fat food, and eating high-fat food may cause symptoms of poor digestive juices; Turtles cannot eat prickly or hard food, food with sharp objects can prick the turtle's mouth, and hard food turtles may not be able to bite.
2.If a turtle eats a large amount of salty food, the salt will accumulate in its body, causing swelling and death. For example, ham sausages and seafood are foods with high salt content, so it is not recommended to feed them.
3.Turtles have poor digestion and can change with changes in temperature. For high-fat food, the turtle may have symptoms of indigestion because it is unable to make a fuss with digestion.
For example, fatty meat, bread worms, etc. are foods with high fat content and are not recommended to be fed.
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Anonymous users2024-02-04Turtles are omnivorous aquatic animals, which eat not only animal feed, such as small fish, small shrimp, snails, mussels, earthworms, maggots, scraps of livestock, etc., but also plant feed, such as tubers, vegetables, grains, aquatic plants, etc. In the case of artificial breeding, peanut cakes, bean cakes and the like are also eaten. However, the turtle is particularly resistant to hunger, and will not starve to death if it does not eat for several years.
Related Content: Artificially bred turtles can be fed soaked wheat grains or rice, and then fed egg yolks and crushed fish, shrimp, mussels, earthworms and other animal feed, can also be mixed with pumpkin, potatoes and other plant feed. In this way, after 20-30 days of rearing, they can be moved to the hatchling pond for rearing.
In addition, each has its own merits depending on the season. In spring and autumn, the water temperature is low, and the adult turtles do not come out in the morning and evening, so they should be fed at 10 a.m.; The water temperature is too high in midsummer, and the adult turtles do not come out at noon, so they should be fed in the evening. The feeding amount should be 5% of body weight in spring and autumn, and it can be increased to 10%-20% in summer.
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