feeding my new tegu

[armison89]

im getting as giant female from bobby next week. i was wondering can i feed him any raw meat from the store or is there stuff i cant feed her?

 

[Guest]

He seems to feed ground turkey and beef liver that may be best to start with .. They will eat many things but make sure you get some appropriately sized mice in him .. Don`t be to concerned if he dosn`t eat as he has probably been hibernating and my very well crawl under a rock and sleep for months ..Dust with calcium ...

 

[armison89]

wut about ground beef?

 

[Guest]

Great if he will eat it I was just suggesting that you feed what she has been eating . Try to mix in some cod liver oil ...

 

[CaseyUndead]

If you can find fish filets, those are good now and then too. I sometimes give my tegu tilapia filets, cut into pieces with calcium powder, and he loves them. When he was very small he ate some superworms, so that might be something else you could try. Boiled or scrambled eggs with the shell crushed up in it are also something you could try.

 

[armison89]

i didnt know abt the egg shell part. thanks should i feed boneless or can it have bones it the meat. (chicken)

 

[CaseyUndead]

Ive never given my tegu bones with his meat.. Just calcium supplement. I don't think large bones would be a good idea. With whole prey items the bones are obviously good though.

 

[Guest]

Seeing as tegus are large scavenging omnivores, I believe they could handle things like chicken wings, cut up chicken necks or cut up chicken backs with ease. We're talking about massive lizards that eat anything from small animals to chickens in raided chicken coops to numerous insects to the honey from an angry bees' nest.

They can easily digest the 205 bones in rats, mice, and 307 bones in a baby chicken (though those bones are very soft)... So why not one concentrated bone? Domesticated dogs, cats and ferrets can do it. I can't imagine why I tegu couldn't given its type of wild feeding habits.

I'd just make sure that the food is small enough for them to swallow easily though.

 

[Guest]

my tegu loves talapia. some other ideas (most already mentioned) ground turkey, eggs, chicken/turkey necks, chicken liver, mice, rats, mahi mahi, chicken, sometimes it'll eat baby food.

i like ground turkey over ground beef, its got a lower fat ratio. ground chicken is good as well.