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SHvar
at Mon Sep 19 19:20:22 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SHvar ]
Of them see which they like. Thats what I tried, also the enthusiasm which they go after birds and rodents as well a few other foods shows me that they like them.
Almost every medium to large monitor Ive seen enjoys rodents and birds more than any other food source, sometimes you have to be careful feeding them, you can get hurt when they really like something. Now these examples are and were long time captives, CBB, etc Ive seen some WC monitors show more interest in other food sources at first but that changes after they get used to a readily supplied rodent or bird diet.
As Frank said to me already about how much I offer my monitors, Im not the starving type, my monitors are well fed so they show more interest in what they like not just any food source I offer. I like varying their diet some but I have had monitors that ate rodents their entire life and did great, some that I tried an insect diet (supplemented of course), they grew very slowly (aside from ackies), after switching them to rodents their appetite went through the roof and their growth was great.
About mice being fatcicles, mice on average do have a higher fat content than a chicken peep by mass and weight, but rats have the lowest fat content by far from the 3, peeps the highest moisture content. Calcium per animal varies such a tiny amount by mass and weight from one to the other with rats being the highest barely. As far as many nutrients that are found in one source or another that may or may not be needed or help more , peeps and other birds offer some amino acids not found in rodents in as high levels.
Unless someone was supplying me with CBB rodent fed snakes as a food supply on occasion I wouldnt feed them to my monitors.
I agree, offer them choices, see what they prefer, then figure out why they prefer or want that food source, other problems may be discovered and fixed by doing this. I like discussions, not arguements.
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Ah, we agree, then as I did put several food supplies in front . - SHvar, Mon Sep 19 19:20:22 2005