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I hear that uros like beans and lentils, so I bought some. Do I feed them dry or do I rehydrate them???

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>>I hear that uros like beans and lentils, so I bought some. Do I feed them dry or do I rehydrate them???
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>>FireDrake
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You can feed them dry(ground up for smaller uros) or rehydrated.

Of course lentils and most beans have a very poor calcium/phosphorous ratio so make sure that they are not the majority of the diet.

When I first introduced lentils to my Uro he was eating his greens very well but then decided all he wanted were soaked lentils. We then had to go back to square one to get him to eat his greens well again (put nothing but greens in, cover the cage to reduce stress, and wait) It took almost two months to get him back to the diet I wanted him on.

Now I treat beans and lentils as treats like I do bee pollen and fruits and only put them in once in a while after he eats his greens.

A lot of people keep a small dish of ground up beans in the cage all the time and have no problems. So give it a try and as long as your Uro does not go nuts and stop eating everything else it will add some good variety to the diet.
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Mike Wilson
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lentils, birdseeds which is mainly millets with no sunflowers seeds, and dried yellow split peas in there at all times, but my uros still eat greens and munch on the lentils ,yellows peas and seeds through out the day, and i don't ground them either they actually crack them u hear them munching on them, my hatchling i won't give any dry food to until it reaches a lil over a year old

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on some of the healthiest uros I have seen. Very Nice!

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that is quite the turkey neck in this photo! i absolutely love it. i was wondering if all uros of that type have that band of lighter scales on their tails or if that is just something on yours?
all of your pics were great. thanks for sharing them!
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vonnie
***Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West ***

another full body shed and is about to shed the tail again
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Can't remember why, but that's the
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>>Can't remember why, but that's the rules

Raw kidney beans contain Phytohaemagglutnin which is suspected to cause food poisoning type symptoms in humans.

Cooking the beans greatly reduces the amount to safe levels for humans but does not eliminate it. Since we don't know how reptiles react to Phytohaemagglutnin best to avoid kidney beans both red and white as well as fava beans totally.

See link below for all the details.

FDA bad bug book chapter 43 (Phytohaemagglutnin)

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Mike Wilson
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Here's what you gotta ask yourself, Why would I feed beans that I don't even eat to my animals.

Seriously though Kidney beans are nasty tasting anyways. Just don't buy them anyways.

Thats my opinion on kideny beans. They don't taste good and they don't do anything good for you so why eat them? I agree that it is in the rulz
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GUY: You know I have a tendency to grow on people.
GAL: Yeah, so does fungus.

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."

if we are basing things off taste then i think i should not be feeding any of this stuff to helga. i have tried her foods before. i am not really fond of most of those lettuces and the fresh peas and zucchini did not do anything for me either, i definitely prefer those cooked. all of the things that i think taste good fresh, mostly the fruits, she will not even touch except to fling across the cage.
but i will say the kidney beans are not good since mike busted out that really big word. mike, did you just look that up or do you work in the health industry?
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vonnie
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I don't really care for trying anything my animals eat, at all. The majority of the time I've had them I couldn't eat the lettuce I'd be giving them, even though I wanted to know what they were eating tasted like, at all becaue of the medicine I was on (i had 2 blood clots behind my knee so i was on blood thinners for almost 2 years). But now that I'm off I've tried the endive and let me tell you one thing: It is the nastiest tasting thing I've ever eaten it's just wrong to be feeding our animals something that tastes soooooo horrible.
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GUY: You know I have a tendency to grow on people.
GAL: Yeah, so does fungus.

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."

Endive is so bitter (so is dandelion, I wonder if there's a trend here? ). Kale actually isn't too bad. It's kinda like a bitter cabbage. If I was stuck with absolutely no food in the house, I'd eat kale.
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>>but i will say the kidney beans are not good since mike busted out that really big word. mike, did you just look that up or do you work in the health industry?
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>>vonnie

Yeah that is a real jawcracker. I looked it up to get the spelling right. Nope I don't work in the healthcare industry.

I heard about "raw kidney bean poisoning" several years ago and being the curious geek I am I just had to do some research on it to see if it was true. I just thought it was interesting that lots of people eat kidney beans all the time and did not even know that they were toxic until cooked.

So a piece of trivia I picked up years ago pays off in the Uro forums

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Mike Wilson
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