For Travis.Brown rice can be a possibility

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Posted by Flavia Guimaraes on May 18, 2002 at 20:43:03:

In Reply to: Re: Hey! I am here !(Part II ) posted by Travis on May 18, 2002 at 19:38:56:

Travis

Please read my e-mails!!I never said I was giving to my igs ONLY rice and noodles!!I said they will eat vegetables(carrots, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, corn) more easily if I mix the vegetables with rice (brown rice). And I include some vitamins in the rice.As you know brown rice is very nutritious!
I read in Dr Hubert Bosch book, that green iguanas react especially intensely to faulting keeping and diet.I have been feeding my igs with starch for 3 years.They never got sick, as I told you before!!
They like rice and noodles.They dont like protein very much.Only a bite once in a while.I suppose they know what is best to them!!!
My older iguana is about 5 or 6 yers old.I bought it in Jakarta 3 years ago.He was in a small cage, his nose was bleeding and was underweight.Now he is gorgeous!!My others igs are just the same!!Fat, big, bright, healthy!NO MBD, no twisted tails,no swollen legs, no rachitis. The youngest is 16 months and 1 meter 25!
I read in some books that ig breeders still dont know very well what igs eat.Why brown rice cannot be another possibility?
You will say there is no brown rice in nature.OK, there is not cat food either, and I feed my SKINK with cat food and everybody says it's OK!!

Flavia

They like rice would be my guess . As stated before by more then one person rice is not a good diet staple for iguanas . Iguanas as creatures of habit if you give them rice every day they will want it every day . If you give them greens every day they will get used to greens and they will in all likelihood live a longer healthier life . Please do not think that my statements in earlier posts are saying your diet is in any way good for a iguana . My point was on the animal protein issue was John-Paul's wording implying that it presented some kind of instant doom . As far as you diet both rice and pasta are bad ideas . A diet of greens and some veggies is all that is needed for a healthy diet Along with a constant supply of fresh water and room to roam of course ..

: Travis

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: Travis : Please read my e-mails!!I never said I was giving to my igs ONLY rice and noodles!!I said they will eat vegetables(carrots, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, corn) more easily if I mix the vegetables with rice (brown rice). And I include some vitamins in the rice.As you know brown rice is very nutritious! : I read in Dr Hubert Bosch book, that green iguanas react especially intensely to faulting keeping and diet.I have been feeding my igs with starch for 3 years.They never got sick, as I told you before!! : They like rice and noodles.They dont like protein very much.Only a bite once in a while.I suppose they know what is best to them!!! : My older iguana is about 5 or 6 yers old.I bought it in Jakarta 3 years ago.He was in a small cage, his nose was bleeding and was underweight.Now he is gorgeous!!My others igs are just the same!!Fat, big, bright, healthy!NO MBD, no twisted tails,no swollen legs, no rachitis. The youngest is 16 months and 1 meter 25! : I read in some books that ig breeders still dont know very well what igs eat.Why brown rice cannot be another possibility? : You will say there is no brown rice in nature.OK, there is not cat food either, and I feed my SKINK with cat food and everybody says it's OK!! : Flavia : They like rice would be my guess . As stated before by more then one person rice is not a good diet staple for iguanas . Iguanas as creatures of habit if you give them rice every day they will want it every day . If you give them greens every day they will get used to greens and they will in all likelihood live a longer healthier life . Please do not think that my statements in earlier posts are saying your diet is in any way good for a iguana . My point was on the animal protein issue was John-Paul's wording implying that it presented some kind of instant doom . As far as you diet both rice and pasta are bad ideas . A diet of greens and some veggies is all that is needed for a healthy diet Along with a constant supply of fresh water and room to roam of course .. : : Travis

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