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I am trying to come up with a nice turkey mix recipe to use once or twice a week along with basic rodents and whatnot on other days.

My plan is to mix ground turkey with frozen pinks, snails, grasshoppers and fruit. If i freeze this into individual serving, what does everyone thing of this mixture, what would you add or take away?

McFresh, I'd leave the pinks, snails and grasshops out, simply becuase these are easy enough to feed on their own.

Having said that I can't get my black and whites to touch anything once I've mixed fruit in, so if adding some of these in helps them eat it, then ok...While you are there, you could experiment with mixing in very finely chopped greens like watercress or dandelions. Good for fibre.

My blue tongue skinks and wood turtles will eat this kind of mix really well, but not my tegus...

Let us know if you come up with recipe worth trying.

Mark.

Mine are reds, so they love the fruit.

I want to mix it all in because my female is a pain when it comes to feeding a variety. I used to use SDZ and they werent doing well on it, but i miss how easy it was. so i want to do this as a replacement that i can thaw and feed when needed. I would rather have natural forms of calcium and vitamins in it than mixing in supplements. i might use bait sized crawdads as well.

do you use canned snails and grasshoppers? They are very expensive here. I know the snails are like 5 dollars for a teeny can.
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until i find an altenate supplier yup. i trap grasshoppers in the summer though. so might trap a bunch this year and keep them frozen

I would feed Whole foods only.Fruit,rodents and bugs. Thats all the veritly they need.Russ

The main drive behind this is that my female will rarely take an insect, or just plain fruit for me. she does much better with a mixture, They eat plenty of whole prey though, this is merely a variety for them.

My B&W readily ate plain fruit when he was small. Now he will only eat it if I mix it with something meaty...usually groud turkey. He mostly eats roedents now, but I mave also fed him super meal worms & quail chicks.

Someone mentioned trapping grasshoppers. I am VERY interested in how they do this. Could someone please elaborate?

Thank you,

Brian

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Brian

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My wife always caught them while i was at work, but i read of a new way on some fishing forum. take a blanket, one of the rough ones with lots of fuzz on it. go to a place with tall weeds or a place where there are a lt of grasshoppers. grab the blaket and run throught the field dragging it. any grasshopper that lands on it will get thier feet stuck and you just pick them off the blanket