I think you`re making things quite difficult for your monitors if you believe they will not benefit from being active year round and being fed the appropriate ammounts of food, because their "instinct" is to gorge themselves and brumate! Your (our), responsibility is to provide them with the conditions that will support them at all times.
Not enough food, too high/low temps, (the reason they brumate in the wild), is not optimum. The problem seems to be that they AREN`T kept in the best of conditions in the overwhelming majority of cases, it`s realy nothing to do with their "instincts"!

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• Feeding chicks? - twillis10, Sun Sep 18 13:04:47 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - FR, Sun Sep 18 17:49:05 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - Leo_Solis, Sun Sep 18 19:26:15 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - twillis10, Sun Sep 18 21:25:03 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - FR, Mon Sep 19 10:02:44 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - masonmonitors, Tue Sep 20 05:11:32 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - FR, Tue Sep 20 08:36:49 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - masonmonitors, Tue Sep 20 21:22:37 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - FR, Wed Sep 21 11:56:08 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - masonmonitors, Wed Sep 21 13:24:22 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - FR, Wed Sep 21 20:39:59 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - FR, Wed Sep 21 21:07:04 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - masonmonitors, Wed Sep 21 22:54:49 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - FR, Thu Sep 22 10:48:35 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 11:13:59 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - FR, Thu Sep 22 15:57:52 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 16:02:37 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - FR, Thu Sep 22 23:15:44 2011
• RE: Now about over feeding - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 23:26:07 2011
• Uh-ohhh - wldktrptls, Wed Oct 26 01:35:57 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - masonmonitors, Wed Sep 21 22:55:28 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - FR, Thu Sep 22 10:36:53 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 11:04:29 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 11:08:50 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - CMcKinna, Thu Sep 22 12:04:40 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 12:13:06 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - FR, Thu Sep 22 12:42:40 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 12:54:59 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 12:52:42 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 13:07:44 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 13:39:38 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 14:08:01 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 15:19:39 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 15:50:07 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - CMcKinna, Thu Sep 22 17:02:18 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 21:00:14 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 13:59:34 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 14:10:20 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 15:43:28 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 16:01:06 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 17:24:22 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - masonmonitors, Thu Sep 22 21:15:28 2011
• Okay let me get this right.... - Calparsoni, Fri Sep 23 02:22:57 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - masonmonitors, Fri Sep 23 02:57:36 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - murrindindi, Fri Sep 23 06:12:56 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - moe64, Fri Sep 23 08:32:00 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - CMcKinna, Fri Sep 23 11:58:33 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - masonmonitors, Fri Sep 23 13:19:00 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - CMcKinna, Fri Sep 23 16:49:07 2011
• RE: Okay let me get this right.... - moe64, Fri Sep 23 21:23:00 2011
• Have you actually even read that book? - Calparsoni, Fri Sep 23 12:27:14 2011
• RE: Have you actually even read that book? - masonmonitors, Fri Sep 23 13:32:33 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Fri Sep 23 09:41:34 2011
• RE: rant 1-8 - murrindindi, Thu Sep 22 17:45:45 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - leo_solis, Mon Sep 19 12:46:10 2011
• RE: Feeding chicks? - twillis10, Mon Sep 19 16:56:06 2011