Let get deep into what Ostriches eat. Ostriches eat plants and meats so they are omnivores. Some of the plants and meat they eat are seeds and roots. Animals and meat are rodents, snakes or insects. If ostriches want to find bugs or soil they will most likely stick there head in the ground. Also, Each year the ostriches food can change some time they don't even have any. Let's talk a little about how ostriches get there water. They do not need water because all of their water comes from there plants. So they they are get a lot of nutrients. Now let learn a little about how you can tell how much nutrients. To know if ostriches get enough nutrients, ostriches intestines are extra long, forty six feet but they are double the length of humans. How about we get into how ostriches swallow rocks, sand, and pebbles. Ostriches do not have any teeth so when they eat a rock or sand there through grings it all up and then swallows it. I hope you had fun learning all about what ostriches eat.