feeding eggs?

[Rikki]

I heard that you should feed nile monnitors cooked eggs on occasions? How should you prepare the eggs? Has anyone else done this before with baby niles? Any auggestions?

[Tamizan]

once every other month, i give my sav a hard boiled egg....i never owned niles so i dunno LOL

[susan]

i have a sav and never fed egg to, how big is your sav ?
i know this is a silly ?you deshell it first right

[Rikki]

My nile is about 11 inches right now, I thought about boiling and egg and deshelling and maybe cutting it up a little and putting it on a plate...

[susan]

i think im gonna do that to

[chuck911jeep]

You can leave the shell, it's an excellent calcium source

[Rikki]

Would he actually eat the shell? Wouldnt it be hard to digest?

[peterm15]

i saw it on a show once... killer instinct... he gave a monitor an egg... just regular.. not boiled, not de shelled.... just a regular egg... they swallow it hole to gain all the nturience.. wqhen you boil and remove the shell they loose some nutrieunce so its not as benifical...

now i dont know the first thing about monitors so take this as you will... but i do know that auzzie does know alot about herps

[Bartman]

The monitor would need to be quite big to swallow it hole. Make sure hes not going to choke. Id personally stay away from them as you dont need them to keep him healthy and all it can do is cause problems.

[crocdoc]

Not all monitors will eat eggs whole and some will make a real mess out of it. Was the monitor on the show a lace monitor, by any chance? I give mine whole chicken eggs and they are very careful to swallow them without breakage.

[peterm15]

maybe.. im not to sure but my guess is that it was native to ..... Australia cause thats where the show is filmed.... its that bare foot guy... it was a while ago so i dont really remember... i do know he own a zoo of some sort...

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

Scrambled eggs are also possible. I fed them to my savannah monitor when It was 10". Make sure when you scramble them you dont use butter or oil.

C.

[Rikki]

Hes only 11 inches so he couldnt swallow an entire egg, I think ill boil an egg and break it into pieces tommorow morning to test out some new foods. Thanks for your help guys! :)