Chicken Gizzards(sp)?

[reptilez]

Does anyone feed these to there Sav. Monitors? I overheard someone at a pet shop say thats what they fed there monitor at home.
-Reptilez

[markb]

If they do, their reptile will be dead soon! These organ products given in SMALL QUANTITIES to LARGE (5 feet +) is OK, otherwise, stay away from them for vara-food.

good luck,
markb

[Zoe]

What the heck is a gizard??

Zoe

[reptilez]

Zoe: I think its the chicken that you have in your Chicken soup, but im not sure.

What kind of chicken/meats can i buy at the store as a staple food for them?

[V.hb]

Its chicken innards, kidneys, hearts, necks, etc etc........ Its like 1.50 for a bunch of it, so that gives you an idea of the quality... its not something that should be a staple.

[reverendsterlin]

gizzard is a second stomach, a very muscular organ used to grind food found in some birds. Quite tasty though chewy lol.

[burmer]

You can try ground turkey. I give it to my nile every once in a while and he loves it.

[reptilez]

So what should be staple food item for Savs? From Babies to Adults? Is there anything else i can use as a staple besides Crix and rodents?
-Reptilez

[Jeff_Favelle]

What's wrong with crickets and rodents??

[reptilez]

Im just Curious, thats all.

[Bartman]

I feed my tegu tuna everyonce in a while. I dont know if they have the same diet but maybe since there both varanids. Dont try it until you find out if they can eat it :)

[Doug & Deb]

You can give them hard boiled eggs as well as meal worms, crickets and mice.

[reptilez]

So what is Everyones Feeding Schedule Like. Ex: Crickets(how many) every 2 days, Chicken innards every three days, A rodent once a week.???
what does it cost you weekly to keep them?
Thanks,
-Reptilez

[reptilez]

Also has anyone heard of feeding there Monitors Gold Fish(Feeder Fish)?

[chuck911jeep]

silkworms, superworms, sea food, cockroaches, rodent, hornworms, fish, lombrics, be imaginative and your sav will have a long healthy life

[Steeve B]

Grass hoppers, snails, slugs, crey-fish, hard boiled egg just to ad a few!
Rgds

[Scales Zoo]

We have access to freshwater crayfish in the river where we live. Do you think these would be o.k to use as food for some of our monitors (They shouldn't have any more parasites than any other source of crayfish, should they?)

Should crayfish be offered whole? They seem kind of big, and I can't imagine a savanna monitor being able to crush the exoskeleton. Maybe they can - if so, I'd love to watch and video tape it.

We are raising snails, and hope to be in well enough production to offer them to our monitors.

I would think that the shells on snails and crayfish should give the monitors some fun for an hour or so even if they can't get into them.

Saskatchewan is a grasshopper farm. I never thought much about grasshoppers, but I am going to catch some in an area that I know they haven't been sprayed with pesticides. If I could figure out how to trap them, I could get them by the pound.

Our turtles will love grasshopper as well. Anyone know a good way to trap them?

We got savage, a savanna monitor about a year ago. He was very near death, and would not eat anything for his previous owners. We tried everything we could think of including tinned dog and cat food. Then Sheila decided to try boiled eggs. He loved them. He would only eat boiled eggs for about 6 months, but then he eventually started taking mice, then fish. Do you leave the egg shell on the egg, or do you remove it?

I'm not sure if savanna monitors ever get a chance to eat fish in the wild.

[asphyxia]

Scales:

I leave the shell on the hard boiled egg, I also mix it with F/T mixed seafood at times.

Brian

[JKS]

I feed chicken hearts to my savs on occasion, but I've never tried gizzards/giblets. They've mostly ignored any ground turkey or chicken I've tried. I also use chunked chicken and turkey cat food on occasion, my male loves it. I find though that they both prefer a nice dead mouse.

[reptilez]

Ok...Thanks everyone for your replys:D
Happy Herping,
-Reptilez

[LurkerAccount]

Hey what about earthworm???
I have an earthworm colony would they eat that as a staple?
-Thanks

[markb]

for crayfish, feed them to them live and watch how they eat thewm - they will remove the claws first if big ones and then eat it - and love it!! Earthworms are fine, as are any bugs of any kind.

good luck,
markb