Chicken Gizzards(sp)?

[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
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