What are your favorite recipes???

[CDN-Cresties]

Hi, what do you guys feed your crix, do you have a special mixture of foods?, i usually just throw some vegies in the cricket box with come calcium and vitamin dust on it. But im looking for something new and healthier, if thats possible.
Thanks for the help!!! :D

-Steve-

[MartinW]

I use crushed dry cat food that I throw in the blender. I also used some kind of baby rice cereal, and powdered milk. I also use potato slices.

[CDN-Cresties]

Is this a dumb question? why dry cat food?
Thanks

-Steve-

[Linds]

I use dry dog food - whole not crushed. Dog and cat food is good because it has all the necessary vitamins, fat, minerals and protein. Its made with animal matter, and crickets are omnivorous... and the animals eating them require animal matter in themselves as well, so it makes for a nice gutload.

In addition to that , I also supply crickets with a mixture of grains, high calcium greens, fruits and veggies :) Crickets are pigs, they will eat just about anything ya give em ;)

[Wuntu Menny]

I use chicken feed, the clean kind without the drugs and hormones. Run it through the food processor to grind it finer, and add either Cal/D3, multivitamin, or MinerAll. The crickets also get whatever fruit and veggies overstay their welcome in the fridge.

The mealworms, supers, and the roaches all love the stuff too. Chicken feed goes for $8 for 50 lbs!

WM

[MartinW]

Steve, I use dry cat food cuz the non-dry stuff (don't know what to call it) is a mess and goes bad easily. I'm not sure, but it's probably cheaper too, and for me it's easier cuz I feed my cat dry food anyway so it's always available.

Martin

[Lisa]

I don't get many Crickets at once (usualy 1/2 dozen) so I usually give them some fruit and fruitloops

[wyz]

I mix fish food(flakes) they LOVE that, oat and dry cat food.

If you give veggies, put it in a separate container and remove it the day after. (it smells)

I only use dry food with separate water source, and I never give veggies (cause it smells) or calcium.

My crix are allways dusted before feeding my herps so no use to have them waste costly calcium by feeding it to them.

WYZ

[Linds]

Originally posted by Lisa
so I usually give them some fruit and fruitloops

Aren't you worried about all the sugar, dyes, and other additives in the fruitloops?

Originally posted by Wuntu Menny
I use chicken feed, the clean kind without the drugs and hormones.

I heard that chicken feed has something in it that doesn't get processed and builds up in the animals?? Ash or nitrates or something......can't remember what it was....:confused:

[Wuntu Menny]

Nope, no ash or nitrates that I read on the tag. I use "poultry finisher", its the last thing the chickens are fed before market. Aside from some mineral and vitamin enrichment, nothing raised any alarms for me.

I would be more concerned about those things in commercial cat and dog food. Except for the premium brands, most contain nitrites and fillers such as ash.

WM

[reptilez]

I just use that commercial food from the pet store. The green cubes. Works fine for me:D
-Reptilez

[Linds]

As I mentioned, I couldn't remember what it was that was a concern with the chicken mash, so I ran a search through the forums and came up with this...

Originally posted by Jaylyn
Chicken laying mash is chuck full of synthetic vitamins - which can build up in your herp's system and cause organ damage (especially Vitamin A). The mash is meant to feed laying hens for a short life span (1-3 years). The mash is also high in phosphates which counteracts calcium utilization. Not what your herp needs. Better to feed the feeders foods that are rich in vitamins in their natural forms (eg. carrots for Vitamin A).

Jaylyn

[Wuntu Menny]

Exactly.

There are specific feed formulas for poultry at various stages of development. Poultry starter contains growth hormones and antibiotics, the feed for mid stage growth has another hormone, more drugs, and probably a steroid constituent as well. Laying chickens get their daily dose of dope to boost ovulation etc, and the finisher is a maintenance formula designed to clear their tissues of all the other crap pumped into them thus far.

WM