Hi Charlotte – I used a powdered supplement or bird vitamins on an irregular basis way back in the ‘70’s when I was using frozen food. When I started to raise my own food and feed fresh, I stopped the practice. I switched back to frozen food a couple of years ago, so I’m beginning to look into using supplementation again.



Since I really don’t know the nutritional value of the frozen food I get from various sources, it would seem to be a good idea to hedge my bets and sprinkle some vitamins on the food from time to time. I know it appears that many herps can live a long life eating solely frozen-thawed food, but I keep thinking this can’t be an ideal situation. We know that the foodstuffs WE eat decline in nutritional value over time after freezing (even, I guess, BY freezing). One problem is – who will ever do feeding trials with controls? So it has to be a by guess and by golly type of thing.



Maybe Rob Carmichael will chime in here since he has said he uses supplements. When I first heard him discuss the practice here, I thought it might be unnecessary. But I think I’m coming around to his point of view on this.



-Joan

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