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Originally Posted by MrBosc
The mice and chicks, are they packed with goodness or are they pretty much just used for a treat?
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Mice and chicks are good staple foods.
My two have been eating rodents nearly every day (as part of a well rounded diet with other items included) and they simply are not getting fat.
Where the problem is, rodents are high energy food, so you have to maintain a high energy Bosc, otherwise problems occur down the road, and people tend to blame the food, rather than the
REAL cause, poor caging.
Ever notice that when we see a wild Monitor lizard in a documentary that they walk proudly with their chest/belly held up high and not dragging their gut like most of the captives we see??
It's certainly not because the wild examples belong to a weight watcher's club, it's not because they count calories in the wild, or because they are fussy over the dinner menu......... it's because their environmental conditions are correct for proper metabolism to occur.
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