Suzle87 wrote:kingofnobbys wrote:Suzle87 wrote:Thanks for that Kingofnobbys , that's good to know. do you ever feed yours dog food? if so what brand ? thankyou
no - never .
In the wild (in the bush) they don't have access to dog food , so I don't offer it to any of pet skinks , nor to I leave any out for the local wild skinks either , don't want them getting a taste for the rubbish , that said I've seen some of local urban wild skinks raiding neighbours' cat and dog dishes for the sloppy stuff , soft and even hard pellets left for their cats and dogs. (Skinks are opportunistic feeders and soon cotton onto easy (if risky) sources of food if there every day for the taking , this doesn't mean its good for them to eat it - if they avoid being seen and attacked by the cat or dog the food is meant for).
Only non- insect protein I give occasionally is
>> raw chicken eggs
>> soft and hard boiled eggs
>> boiled lean chicken mince'
>> occasionally raw fish ( by accident if I drop a bit of thawed bait and skink sees it , it soon gets disappeared by the local resident / wild bluetongue or a water skink )
>> raw prawns (see above).
Thanks for the pointers, I am aiming to avoid feeding dog food but just thought I should always have something for emergencies (I don't quite know what emergency I could possibly have that means Id have no access to food but as I think you can probaby gather...I do worry!!
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if you offer raw chicken egg to a bluetongue , do it in a place where it wont matter if it makes a mess .... raw chicken egg yoke and whites all over the place when they crack open the shell .... my easterns love their occasional raw chicken egg , I give it them in a clam shaped toddlers pool for obvious reasons ..... They don't leave much of the shell behind , it's crunched up with the runny stuff.
They love the special garden snails I buy for them as treats from a local farmer who cultivates snails for the restraunts (so I know they are paracite and poison free, be care with wild ones from the garden esp if you have garden proud neighbours and neighbours who keep cats and dogs (snails have a taste for cat and dog poo - very bad for paracites).
The other favourates are big juicy silkworms (they each get one big one per day , or 2 or 3 medium ones each , my beardies used to love the silkworms but have lost interest in them lately (too much of a good thing ??? still eat them , but have to hand feed them now (inbetween the much more desireable criclets) , and crunchy meaty superworms ( these are treats).
I cultivate my own silkworms year round , only have to either buy mulberry leaves or silkworm chow. Though last year I blanched a few hundred leaves and froze them for the off season , worked very well , but not real flash to feed newly hatched silkworms .... leaves too hard for them).
