What do baby box turtles eat?

While preparing a flower garden this afternoon we found a baby box turtle that%26#039;s only the size of a quarter. What should we feed him to ensure that its nutritional needs are met?

What do baby box turtles eat?
Try millworms, or even reg earth worms, if you don%26#039;t have any of that try some raw hamburger. You can also try some greens, like lettace. You can also buy turtle food, at a pet store or retail store, it comes in pellet form, but do try to get some milworms, turtles love them!
Reply:Remember that baby turtles can be tough to care for- not just food, but also temp, lighting, shelter, and more have to be offered in the right way. However, as to diet...





1. Baby boxies eat what the adults eat, just smaller pieces.





2. Do not feed turtles packaged food that is mostly ant or fly parts, hamburger, head lettuce, hotdogs, canned dog food, or other foods that lack nutritional value or are too fatty.





3. Baby turtles often do not eat right after birth, so as long as it is getting bigger and gaining weight don%26#039;t worry too much about it if it does not eat.





4. Make sure it has good access to water for drinking and soaking in.





Finally- PLEASE consider making it a %26#039;garden pet%26#039;- let it live in the wild in your garden/yard. Boxies have rather small home territories and as long as it has food, water, and shelter it will probably hang around. People report having %26#039;tamed%26#039; wild boxies to take food from their fingers.
Reply:do not feed any luttuce at all, its only cellouse and will cause diarehha. feed kale or greens. also provide the common insects from your area such as worms, grubs, snails or slugs but limit slugs so that it%26#039;s throat doesn%26#039;t get gummed up. sprinkle vitamin and calcium suppliments every other meal. enjoy him for the summer then return him to the wild in one of your state parks by sept.
Reply:box turtle food, it says Fulker%26#039;s Box Turtle Baby


at petsmart or petco or even target and walmart.
Reply:Another common lament I hear over and over is that someone turtle will only eat one thing. For example, the turtle will only eat bananas, or cantaloupe or beef. Actually, this is a problem that is easy to solve, but it’s going to take some effort on your part to break the turtle of its addiction to one food. To do this, you mix of the turtle’s favorite food with other foods you want your turtle to acquire a taste for. You simply chop all the food into tiny, tiny pieces and mix it well so the turtle cannot help getting a bite of what it doesn’t eat with what it loves. Use a high portion of the favorite food initially, but during the weeks of retraining, reduce the amount of it until the turtle is eating a balanced diet. The process may take awhile but it is possible. A Three-toed box turtle I have took two years to retrain. He now eats whatever I put out for him.





Small jar of pureed chicken baby food


1/2- 1 cup of Pedialite ® or Gatorade ®


1/4 teaspoon cod liver oil


1 tablespoon calcium powder


Mix well and feed via stomach tube and syringe at a rate of 1.5 ml per 100 gms every 7 days. Veterinarians also have commercial syringeable food and can provide you with a syringe and stomach tube. These items can also be purchased from pet supply companies





this will help you and you little baby box turtle!!


i hope the best for the both of you and i think box turtles are so cute, use this mix for baby turtles and gradually add new thing to the diet of your turtle
Reply:TRY DRY SHRIMP
Reply:First are you positive he is a box turtle. Second once you have correctly identified the turtle make sure it isnt a protected species if it is I would let him go. A lot of natural resource regulating agencies monitor this site so that can catch people keeping threatened or endanangered species, which is a huge fine and saying you didnt know will not get you off. Once you have determined it isnt protected by looking it up in the field guide, look that species up and find out its specific food requirement. Most north american box turtles enjoy a varied diet of fruit, worms, insects maybe some dark green lettuce, dont feed him spinach it binds the calcium so it will end up being calcium defient. You can also buy him some premaid turtle diets at the pet store. Most important add calcium to his food and try to give him natural sunlight if possible if not buy him a special UV light otherwise his shell will soften and he will die. Personally I think you should let him go and buy a captive born turtle from a reptile specialist but thats my own opinion as I am concerned about the fact that box turtles are in a lot of trouble in many areas.
Reply:look into supplements at the pet store that are ment jut for box turtles but for now you can use ROMAINE LETTUCE DO NOT FEED HEAD LETTUCE there is no nutritional value it has to be the long leaf romaine



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