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Posted by Brian on August 27, 1998 at 17:31:05:
In Reply to: Raw meat as food - yes and NO posted by Dale on August 27, 1998 at 16:21:12:
: : Can I feed raw meat to my nile monitor?
: Yes you can feed raw meat to your Nile. It will love it. The best raw meat is in the form of whole freshly killed animals. (mice, rats, chicks.) If you feed raw ground meat or cuts of meat you run two risks: One, cuts and ground meat do NOT constitute a balanced diet. Two, bacteria.
: You could eat raw meat yourself or raw eggs. Probably you could go without a serious infection for some time, but eventually you would get food poisoning. The same could happen to your lizard.
: Cook all ground or cuts of meat. If you feed ground or cut meat, suppliment with vitamins/minerals and very the diet.
: I personally have been having good success with HIGH QUALITY cat food.
In the wild niles eat carrion (dead deacaying meat). A lot of bacteria is produced by the meat, but the monitors still eat it in the wild with no problem, so why shouldn't they be fed raw meat sometimes? Also, prekilled chicks are the almost the same as ground chicken or turkey but without the bones and feathers and the meat is not ground. Basically you're saying a whole chicken is safer then a ground chicken when they're almost the samething. I feed my mangrove and dumeril's raw meat about 2-3 times a week.
-Brian
