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By all means add cod liver oil or plain fish oil. I don't use much and I don't use it daily either. I mix a capsule in once or twice a week. Finding noncapsule fish oil is hard, at lease for me. I poke a hole in the capsule and mix the whole thing in their ground meat mix. A capsule is digestable gelatine so having them ingest the capsule won't do them any harm. As far as the Vit. D goes, I use the lowest dosage hard tablet I can find which is the Western Family generic tablet of 1,000 mg. Once ground in the coffee grinder I use about 1/8 of the powder. It is easier to grind a few tablets at a time and adjust the amount you use accordingly. I also don't use it daily. Once or twice a week is plenty.

Once your Tegu becomes an adult or even sub adult, when you buy whole chickens to roast, save the necks and chop them in to pieces with a cleaver or hatchet. They are a great, tasty source of calcium which comes from a part of the chicken which usually is tossed.
Also, when you have a little cooked meat left over and it is unseasoned, a little of that will work as a treat. In fact, they will love it. Just think, your Tegu will love BBQ.

<blockquote data-quote="Dana C" data-source="post: 111406" data-attributes="member: 3009">By all means add cod liver oil or plain fish oil.&nbsp; I don't use much and I don't use it daily either.&nbsp; I mix a capsule in once or twice a week.&nbsp; Finding noncapsule fish oil is hard, at lease for me.&nbsp; I poke a hole in the capsule and mix the whole thing in their ground meat mix.&nbsp; A capsule is digestable gelatine so having them ingest the capsule won't do them any harm. As far as the Vit. D goes, I use the lowest dosage hard tablet I can find which is the Western Family generic tablet of 1,000 mg.&nbsp; Once ground in the coffee grinder I use about 1/8 of the powder.&nbsp; It is easier to grind a few tablets at a time and adjust the amount you use accordingly.&nbsp; I also don't use it daily.&nbsp; Once or twice a week is plenty.Once your Tegu becomes an adult or even sub adult, when you buy whole chickens to roast, save the necks and chop them in to pieces with a cleaver or hatchet.&nbsp; They are a great, tasty source of calcium which comes from a part of the chicken which usually is tossed.&nbsp; Also, when you have a little cooked meat left over and it is unseasoned, a little of that will work as a treat.&nbsp; In fact, they will love it.&nbsp; Just think, your Tegu will love BBQ.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dana C, post: 111406, member: 3009"] By all means add cod liver oil or plain fish oil. I don't use much and I don't use it daily either. I mix a capsule in once or twice a week. Finding noncapsule fish oil is hard, at lease for me. I poke a hole in the capsule and mix the whole thing in their ground meat mix. A capsule is digestable gelatine so having them ingest the capsule won't do them any harm. As far as the Vit. D goes, I use the lowest dosage hard tablet I can find which is the Western Family generic tablet of 1,000 mg. Once ground in the coffee grinder I use about 1/8 of the powder. It is easier to grind a few tablets at a time and adjust the amount you use accordingly. I also don't use it daily. Once or twice a week is plenty. Once your Tegu becomes an adult or even sub adult, when you buy whole chickens to roast, save the necks and chop them in to pieces with a cleaver or hatchet. They are a great, tasty source of calcium which comes from a part of the chicken which usually is tossed. Also, when you have a little cooked meat left over and it is unseasoned, a little of that will work as a treat. In fact, they will love it. Just think, your Tegu will love BBQ. :D [/QUOTE]

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