OWINGS MILLS ANIMAL & BIRD HOSPITAL
9623A REISTERSTOWN RD
OWINGS MILLS, MD 21117
COMMON NUTRITIOUS PLANT SOURCES FOR
REPTILES
Some commercially available (and
home-grown) vegetable food items that are safe and nutritious for herbivorous
reptiles:
Alfalfa:
fresh, sun-cured hay, dried leaves, pellets, meal.
Apple:
fresh, with peel, sliced or grated (discard core and seeds).
Barley:
freshly sprouted seeds, freshly grown leaves, sun-cured hay.
Beans:
(several edible varieties): fresh
leaves and stems, fruit.
Bean sprouts:
(azuki, black-eyed,
garbanzo, lentil, mung, pea, etc.): fresh leaves, stems, blossoms, fruit.
Beet:
tops, stems, flowers, grated roots.
Berseem (Egyptian clover):
leaves, sun-cured hay.
Buffalo grass:
(Bulbilis dactyloides): hay.
Cabbage family:
(kale, napa, broccoli, Brussel's sprouts): do not feed to excess.
Cactus:
flowers, prickly pears, tender young cactus pads.
Carrot:
leaves, grated root.
Clover:
(Ladino, Alsike, etc.): fresh, sun-cured hay.
Collards:
fresh green leaves, flowers.
Cotton:
leaves, dried or fresh.
Cowpea: sun-cured hay,
leaves.
Crucifers:
bok choy, etc.
Dandelion:
leaves and stems, flowers, fresh or dried.
Dicondra:
fresh or sun-cured hay.
Eugenia:
fresh leaves, fruits.
Figs:
fresh.
Grass clippings:
freshly mowed or sun-cured.
Hibiscus:
leaves, flowers, fresh pods.
Kudzu:
sun-cured hay.
Lespedeza:
sun-cured hay, leaves.
Millet:
leaves, sun-cured hay.
Mint:
sun-cured hay.
Mixed vegetables:
frozen, thawed.
Mulberry:
freshly picked tender leaves, fruit.
Mustard:
fresh green leaves, flowers.
Nasturtium:
leaves, stems, flowers.
Okra: fresh,
chopped.
Pea:
fresh pods, sun-cured hay.
Pear:
fresh, cut or grated (discard core and seeds).
Peavine:
sun-cured hay.
Peanut:
sun-cured hay with or without nuts.
Pelleted commercial chows:
(Purina, Wayne, etc.) for guinea pigs and rabbits can be fed ad lib;
those formulated for horses, goats, dogs, cats or monkeys, etc.
SHOULD NOT BE FED IN EXCESS.
Rape:
fresh leaves, sun-cured hay.
Rutabaga:
freshly grated root.
Saltbush (winter range):
sun-cured hay.
Soybean:
fresh leaves or sun-cured hay.
Squash:
freshly grated flesh, blossoms, tender leaves.
Stone fruits:
peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, etc.
COMMON NUTRITIOUS PLANT SOURCES
Sunflower:
seeds (unsalted).
Timothy:
sun-cured hay.
Tofu:
soybean cake.
Triticale:
freshly sprouted seeds, sun-cured
hay.
Turnip:
fresh leaves, grated root.
Vetch:
sun-cured hay.
Wheat (soft wheat berries):
freshly sprouted, hydroponically grown.
*these vegetables are somewhat goitrogenic and should not be fed in excess.