The tortoise's mouth, like human nails, is a hard stratum corneum called beak, which will keep growing, but at a slow speed. Eating mainly depends on tearing and swallowing, not chewing. Usually when feeding, cut the meat into small pieces for the tortoise to eat. Turtles don't have teeth, so it doesn't hurt to bite, except for snapping turtles, which are one of the more fierce turtles.

The tortoise's beak may fall off. In most cases, the overall shedding of the upper and lower beaks of turtles is caused by infection. After the whole body falls off, swallowing is stuck in the beach, which affects eating. The defect of beak is caused by breaking when biting hard objects or infection by pathogenic microorganisms. Therefore, it will affect the turtle's decomposition of food in a short time, so it needs to be fed separately, and the amount of food should be as large as possible to ensure that the turtle can swallow smoothly.

Treatment of turtle beak shedding

1. Isolated feeding: There are many reasons why the turtle's mouth falls off, which may be due to illness or being bitten. In either case, it should be treated in isolation to avoid further deterioration or infection of other healthy turtles.

2, change food: turtle mouth generally does not affect eating, but there may be short-term loss of appetite. At this time, it needs to feed some food that is convenient for it to swallow. Because it has no beak, it can't tear large pieces of things, so the food must be chopped before feeding.

3, medication: after the turtle's mouth falls off, the affected area is very susceptible to infection, so to give it proper medication, it is generally necessary to disinfect with iodophor first, then apply some anti-inflammatory ointment, or assist in feeding a little cephalosporin drugs. In addition, we should pay attention to changing water at ordinary times to keep the water clean and hygienic.