I would not sdo it. The risk of detrimental liver failure on the long run is trmendous.

These animals are adapted to arthropod diets.

That means relatively low protein, a lot of dietary fibres and all the gut contents of healthy arthropods.

Chicken muscle ist very high protein of poor diversity. Its all but a balanced source for all essential amino acids and and adn...I quote myself from an earlier post:





...".and its still missing dietary fibres and still is very high in phosphorous, proteins and thus nitrogen.

Sorry, even though obviously this recipe is widespread in the US, with my knowledge on lizard metabolism I would never use it for any insectivore.

To me the risk that the animals may develop gout or kidney problems after a few years is too high.

The sad thing is that it may take years till any effect may become obvious. But once you see symptoms, kidney problems in lizards are almost always irreversible.

Is there any insectivore lizard you know of, which has been fed this for more than 10 years and ist still healthy?

I do have lizards which are 10, 15 and even over 20 years old.

I doubt , theyd be still with me upon feeding such stuff.



Just my 2 cts"



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