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Posted by EdK on February 28, 2003 at 14:39:45:
In Reply to: Re: They can but it's not good for them posted by Colchicine on February 28, 2003 at 07:59:10:
I still have a hard time believing that a food item that is more than 90 percent water has more digestible material?
You're looking at it from the wrong way. Due to the low volume of indigestible matter in earthworms, digestion is more energy efficent. (More is available to the animal per unit weight) (lower ash content). The animal doesn't have to work at processing all of the chitin so more energy is available to the animal. Its sort of like you eating corn kernals without chewing them, the digestiable material available from the corn is very low compared to if the kernals were throughly chewed.
As for the information not being posted on the web its mainly because it really hasn't been put together before but has been spread through a number of different books and articles.
I recently had an article on this accepted for publication by Reptiles Magazine but it can take up to two years or more before it appears in print.
Ed
