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This is a favorite of my Mali. It is the only seed he likes in commercial wild bird seed mix. He will seperate them out to eat them and ignores the rest.

WOW! how old is s/he? i have had my uro for a little over a year and he is only about half that size! how long will it take for mine to get as big as yours?

I've had him 9 or 10 years, he was a wild caught import in rough shape when I got him. Proof you can bring them back to health but it took about a year to hydrate him and get him really filled out. Blueberries, diced apple and small grapes helped get him going.

He has some food peculiarities but I do not think that is unusual for uros. For instance he loves dried flies and has a fetish for pork. Yeah, the 'other' white meat. He seems to know when I have grilled a pork chop or some sausage. I have a 22 year old Sudan plated lizard who is a meat eater and these items are for him yet the uro will eat half of it.

This same uro ignores chicken and beef but will take an occasional strip of venison but mostly pork. He also enjoys 'spicy' plants such as cilantro, wild mint, cat nip and similar herbs. You might try some tree leaves, my uros love birch and maple. He will also chow down on Aloes and Jade plants. Aloes do originate on the African continent, not sure about Jades.

Considering their desert environment, tree and shrub leaves may be an important food source for them. I have spent some time in the Kalahari and Namib areas and noticed dried leaves and dead, dried insects scattered about. Perhaps the same occurs in north African deserts?

I am cutting and drying red clover now to store for winter rations. Yep, they will eat hay!