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i own a year old sav monitor and im curious as to how to prepare such foods as chicken/beef or whatever else i can feed other than insects mice/rats...doe she eat them raw? if so at what temperature?

I wouldn't feed muscle meat to my animal because it is not nutritionally balanced like whole rodents. Infact, I only feed my Sav whole rodent, but I do sometimes feed him some pork and beef raw for treats, and that's very rare. He seems to like the treat.

There should be no need to really feed him chicken or meat that has like barely any of the nutrients he needs. you can also give him a treat every once in awhile of a hard boiled egg.
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Tom
1.2.0 Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 California King Snake
0.1.0 Sulcata Tortoise
0.0.2 Russian Tortoise
0.0.2 Red Ear Sliders
0.0.3 Painted Turtles
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor
1.0.0 Peachfront Conure
0.1.0 Australian Shepheard
2.1.0 Crazy Cats
0.1.0 Lion Head Rabbit
0.1.0 Ferret
0.2.0 Guinea Pigs
0.0.1 White Tree Frog
0.0.2 Fire Belly Newts
0.0.1 Fire Belly Toad
0.0.1 Red Spotted Newt
0.0.2 Bull Frogs
Lots Of Fish

I never understood the necessity to feed monitors "treats". What's the logic behind that?

Feed him a nice salmon or piece of prime rib for Christmas and just wait until it refuses to eat anything else. That could end up being quite a costly treat.

Meat and chicken have barely any nutrients but hard boiled eggs are better? Whats wrong with whole prey? I would suggest sticking with those such as mice/rats/quail/roaches/crickets...etc but I never even thought to feed my animal chicken/beef/eggs so perhaps I'm just ignorant. After all, I thought it was a monitor lizard, not a child.

yes they are and whole prey should be the staple diet but mine loves to hunt and find it and just a good sorce of protein and monitors are intelligent. and it is one of those food things that some people do and some people dont but i dont think people should make fun of that some people agree on and as i said monitors do it in the wild and eat eggs that arent fertle.
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Tom
1.2.0 Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 California King Snake
0.1.0 Sulcata Tortoise
0.0.2 Russian Tortoise
0.0.2 Red Ear Sliders
0.0.3 Painted Turtles
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor
1.0.0 Peachfront Conure
0.1.0 Australian Shepheard
2.1.0 Crazy Cats
0.1.0 Lion Head Rabbit
0.1.0 Ferret
0.2.0 Guinea Pigs
0.0.1 White Tree Frog
0.0.2 Fire Belly Newts
0.0.1 Fire Belly Toad
0.0.1 Red Spotted Newt
0.0.2 Bull Frogs
Lots Of Fish

i feed my children whole prey items like mice and rats

Also i have a question in your pic of the snake cage you have what did you make the cages around the lights out of and some info about them.
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Tom
1.2.0 Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 California King Snake
0.1.0 Sulcata Tortoise
0.0.2 Russian Tortoise
0.0.2 Red Ear Sliders
0.0.3 Painted Turtles
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor
1.0.0 Peachfront Conure
0.1.0 Australian Shepheard
2.1.0 Crazy Cats
0.1.0 Lion Head Rabbit
0.1.0 Ferret
0.2.0 Guinea Pigs
0.0.1 White Tree Frog
0.0.2 Fire Belly Newts
0.0.1 Fire Belly Toad
0.0.1 Red Spotted Newt
0.0.2 Bull Frogs
Lots Of Fish

those light cages are made out of hardware cloth that you can pick up at any hardware store, i just cut them into a t and folded in the edges then bent the loose wires around themselves but im getting rid of the lights and getting a radiant heat panel