Thoughts on feeding Bone Dust? (For those who know)

[CameronJayBauer]

I realize most people will be pretty unfamiliar with this, but I've got to hear some others' thoughts here if there are any, because Ive wondered about this for years.
So I've worked in a meat department for almost 5 years now, where we process raw meat all day. (Mostly just beef and pork.) And every night that we close shop and do clean up we throw away a nice bucket full of "Bone Dust". It's literally the equivalent to sawdust in a woodworking shop, but instead of being finely ground wood particles, it's ground particles of bone, meat, fat, and blood granulated into a powder or wet-sand kind of substance that collects in the bandsaw.
Now I just want to say that regardless of feedback on this, I would still most likely not feed my tegu bone dust, because I'm fairly certain this will have never been legitimately tested or experimented with. But more or less just out of curiosity, really, what nutrition do you think a tegu would get out of this? I mean it's pretty much a straight granulated concentrate of some of the key dietary needs of a carnivorous lizard. I would honestly love to feed bone dust to my Gu, but I don't think I would ever be willing to try it without proper statistics done on it.

But any thoughts?

 

[Walter1]

As part of the diet, I can't see anything wrong. All the ingredients are part of what goes into eating an animal. Missing is organ meat. Ultimately, whole prey- mice, rabbits, etc. constitutes the complete meal.

 

[CameronJayBauer]

Yeah I wish organ meat was in it. Unfortunately with an animal the size of a cow, we dont ever deal with the organs, just the meat.

 

[Walter1]

Fortunately, hearts, livers, gizzards and the like are available and relatively inexpensive.

Mine are fed lots of frozen/thawed mice followed by organ meat, high quality wet dig food, ground turkey or thigh meat, some fruit. All usually dusted with calcium.

 

[CameronJayBauer]

Yeah that sounds about right. I just wish there was more info on bone dust, but it's so uncommon for anyone to ever have access to it. But we throw away bucket full's day in day out, and it would be such an awesome thing to give to a lizard and at no cost. But oh well, I'll stay happy being safe rather than sorry.

 

[DreamsOfTegus]

A small amount would probably be just fine to give additional calcium. If it were me, I'd mix it with some other meat though to avoid too much dust at once packing into the gut.

 

[CameronJayBauer]

A small amount would probably be just fine to give additional calcium. If it were me, I'd mix it with some other meat though to avoid too much dust at once packing into the gut.

Yeah thats what I thought about, I wouldnt want to just give him a plate full of bone dust. I still feel skeptical about it though