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I read somewhere that you can feed monitors eggs, is this true? What sort of eggs would that be referring to? what circumstances would merit the feeding of eggs?

my girlfriend's mangrove monitor is 10 years old, approx 3 ft long. I have no idea what sort of egg you would feed her (if you can feed them eggs)as she's too small to be fed a chicken egg and I would fear the egg would crack causing chunks of the shell to get lodged in bad places.

Hello Chris,
Use reptile eggs if you get infertiles... Continue to feed the mangrove with a solid whole food like rodents, bugs and fish- this is most important- no such thing as treats, just food that is available or not. Best to you- Mike

Have you had the monitor that long? I ask because after that long you should know that they eat pretty much any eggs they can get when they find them.
Besides we are referring to a type of lizard that can darn near digest 16 penny nails if they swallow them, monitors eat, digest, and pass amazing things.
I dont worry too much about feeding eggs, but my 2 larger monitors will eat them as long as I give eggs to them. My flaviargus swallows eggs, my albig crushes them in her mouth and drinks them down, then swallows the shells.
I dont think monitors understand the idea of a treat, they just see food.

Eggs are a "sometimes" food for my salvators. I prefer to offer them hard boiled, shell and all.

i rather boil them- my salvators are sloppy eaters, cracking and losing the contents before swallowing an empty shell. this is my male photographed last summer.

cheers,

John

Sobeks still growing, the last check was a while back at 6ft 6inches and about 33lbs, who knows what she is now.
She recently tripled her fod intake (I guess another growth spurt) for the last few weeks now.

If store bought eggs are too large you can feed scrambled or hard boiled. I have my own chickens, miniture chickens also. So when I give my sav an egg it is a very small, whole, raw egg. Not that that matters, that is just what I feed. He puts the whole thing in his mouth, crushes it, swollows the whites and yolk, and then eats the shell. He tries his best not to waste anything. He doesn't get eggs often at all, usually only if I happen to crack a small one when cleaning them, about every 3 months I guess. One time I was eating breakfast and tossed a piece of scrambled egg to my dogs and Pombe was out, he ran up and ate it. That was the first time he had ever had eggs. I wish I had a video camera. I was not expecting that. He didn't even see me through the egg. I wish I had sences like him. The look on my dogs faces was priceless.

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Shannon in Reno
1 savannah monitor (Pombe-means "beer" in Swahili)
6 dogs
1 cat
36 rats
40 mice
54 chickens
3 beardies
1 black rat snake
~1000 hissers
1 giant milipede