monitor diet

[paulsreef]

It's mentioned that ground turkey and chicken is fed to various monitors. Because of samonella; is this meat cooked prior to feeding? Paul.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Not the greatest diet. There are better alternatives. LOTS of better alternatives.

http://www.varanus.net/cgi-bin/eboard30/index.cgi

[kap10cavy]

I feed my monitors ground terkey on the rare occasions I run out of mice. The only chicken I feed them are peeps. They like quial too. I have found that my blackthroat likes crawdads also.
There are lots of ways to vary their diet without using people food.

Scott

[asphyxia]

I feed most of my Monitors 90% Rats, 10% F/T chicks, seafood mix, and smelts.

Every once and a while I will make a batch of this:

10 lbs of ground turkey
90gms steamed bone meal
2 crushed centrium multi-vitamin.
6 eggs... I keep the shells in

i guess u can also add the calcium + D3 powder too

brown the turkey, add eggs and cook until eggs are cooked.
once done u can refridgerate it or freeze it into meal size portions.

I heard, the san diego zoo used this recipe for several years on all of their african monitors and this made up 70% of their diet. they also used insects, molluscs and a very occasional rodent.
hope this helps.

cheers
Brian

[Tim and Julie B]

I am definately going to try that one.

[Bartman]

Where I work, they use some diet from the Toronto Zoo made up of hoarse meet and some other things. It supposed to be incredible for monitors, and maybe you guys could get your hands on a pack if you talked to someone who worked their.

I use some for my savannah whenever they have extra left over. Its great stuff, and the monitor seems to LOVE it.

[V.hb]

bartman, i've got the toronto zoo diet mix..... it's horse meat and plain geleton to hold it together.. (this works amazing with ground turkey too, you can make large hunks of it with the geleton, and it doesnt fall apart)

My q is, where the hell do you buy horse? :P

[paulsreef]

When using turkey; is it raw or cooked?

[kap10cavy]

I use raw. I mix it with vitamins and bonemeal and feeze iit in an icetray fpr bite size meals when I run out of mice.

Scott

[kap10cavy]

I guess I should mention, before the question is asked. I thaw them out on a small plate and then use the same plate to feed.

Scott

[Scales Zoo]

Horse meat? It is red meat, and for some reason I've always avoided feeding monitors red meat, thought I read something somewhere some time.

Ryan

[lakeridgekennel]

I have used horse meat and found my niles love it. I only feed them that once every month or two. My niles diet is a very different diet. Every year i slauter 2 cows for them they get almost every part of them also ground beef 60/40 mix and turkey ground up also 60/40. Also chicks and rats and mice and they love roaches. Most of my stuff is dusted with calcium. For a real treat for my adult nile i even throw in soup bones with lots of meat on them and within 1 hour those bones are clean then you just pull the old bones out and. I also feed a little bison meat but it is a bit tuffer and only use it in small amounts. I know my diet is very different but all of my monitors seam to love it and i have never had any problems with it. Bucause they are scavengers as also preditors i try feed them very diverse diets. It seems to be working all are 100% healthy and some will breed this year for me


V.hb My q is, where the hell do you buy horse? Call equine horse dealers and findout about horse auctions and there are always people there who can get you horse meat. The dealers buy the old and unhealthy and take them to the slauter so if you talk to them they can get it V.hb

[dave68]

two cows a year for your monitors?! Wow and there are millions of starving people all over the world!

Dave

[lakeridgekennel]

I also slauter 3 cows a winter for my crocs and 2 gators. They can eat me out of house and home But me and my family take the best stuff like the steak cuts and other but they probably get 2/3 of the cow.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Wow and there are millions of starving people all over the world!

People all over the world are starving because of politics, not because of lack of food production.

I have used horse meat and found my niles love it.

Not a smart reason to feed something to an animal. My friend's dog LOVES chocolate. Should I feed that to it?

[crocdoc]

Originally posted by dave68
two cows a year for your monitors?! Wow and there are millions of starving people all over the world!

Dave

If you were REALLY bothered by this, what you should do is sell all of your reptiles and send that money to a charity that deals with feeding third world countries. Then calculate what you would have spent annually on your collection (not just food, but caging, electricity etc) and send that amount off to the same charity on an annual basis.

Not bagging you out, just offering a suggestion since you seemed concerned that people were wasting valuable resources on their reptile collections while there are other people starving elsewhere in the world.

[kap10cavy]

Just think how many we could feed mouse burgers to. And the meal worms and roaches are high in protien.
And what about the chicken peeps? If we let them grow up we could have one hell of a BBQ. HAHAHAHAHA

Scott