O.k i've had a look on loads of the weed giudes but im absolutley rubbish at identifying plants, and i'm never brave enough to make a decision encase i give my torts something toxic. Anyway if people could identify the plants and tell me if there o.k that would be great.
This one i wonder if its a plantain

Again this one looks like a plantain but might be different i dont know

This one i think has dandelion leaves in but i'm not even sure about that

And finally this one which looks like some bigger plantain

Thanks for help i'm really desperate, running out of weeds i do know.

I'm not brave enough to say what they actually are... but definatley not plantain, at least from the plantain I've seen is very different:


Thats broadleafed plantain

and this is quite a large narrow leaf plantain:

Hi tortoise chap,the 3rd pic has young dandelion leafs in it for definate.

Thanks i've seen like 10 different types of style leaves all of which are dandlions and at this time of year without the flowers it's hard to tell.

The others do not look like plantain at all.

The 'spiker' ones you see i think are sow thistle there ok aswell

I and 3 aren't plantain, don't know what they are, but I know they aren't plantain. You can see "ridges" for the want of a better word, down long earred plantain. The second pic is dandelion.

It looks as though there could be a perrenial daisy in there and possibly some young London Pride(toxic) and forget-me-nots. Definately not plantain or sowthistle so I would avoid without a definate ID to be safe. It's not safe to assume torts will not eat toxic plants as some have said as I have known several die from eating common rockery plants

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Thanks i'm only feeding the dandelions to them and the seeds i planted should be ready in a few days anyway. A question on that is it alright if i put the seed trays in there with the torts so they can graze a bit more naturally, i'll only put in what they should be eating in a day though other wise i'll have some fat tortoises.

That is what many keepers do and then lift the trays out to 'rest' them so they can send new shoots up. Remember though that older leaves will give more roughage and therefore a better digestion time. Too many young leaves will lead to runny poo and poor digestion.
Hope this helps

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