Calcium Supplementation with ground whole meats

[apocalypse910]

I recently bought a bunch of food for my tegu from hare-today and had a few questions.

I bought several ground meats with organ/bone included and was wondering if I should still be dusting them with calcium. I've been dusting the food but I'm a bit concerned about over-supplementing so I just wanted to get some feedback.

I can find the calcium/phosphorous numbers for the meats I got but no one really has stats on the meat with the bone and such included. If it matters I got rabbit, quail, turkey, and duck along with some whole baby quail.

 

[Logie_Bear]

Personally, I haven't added any Ca to anything that already has bone in it. But any insects I've feed have been well dusted for Ca. I did get a vita mix w/o Ca to add to meals once a week tho.

 

[HeatherN]

i believe if youre supplement too much calcium, their urates will tend to be more crystalline, almost like geodes. i dont know the ratio of meat to bone in what youre feeding, but i believe theres not magic number you have to stick to, i would just watch the urates with my reptiles, and pull back the Ca if they were getting firm and rock-like, none ever had issues with hypercalcymia (brain fart. forgot how to spell it.), if fact, they laid wonderful, large clutches without me even having to raise their intake very much at all. sometimes i wouldnt even raise it compared to the males. (just my experience though, i dont suggest that! play it safe! )

 

[james.w]

I wouldn't bother dusting with calcium.