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hello Jill, your chucks are gorgeous little guys. they just make you fall in love dont they. i could spend my whole day watching them play, jump and climb.
i grow many of my own plants and add additional calcium to the soil. i find this saves me money and the live plants keep very well being cropped.
this way the chucks also get plants at different stages of maturity. they seem to prefer the more mature greens though.
my chuckwalla diets consist of:
mature alfalfa, squash, dandelion greens and flowers, nasturtium, water cress, raddish greens, carrots and tops, collard greens, occasional tiny bit of kale, parsnip, frisse, raddichio, pea shoots, snap peas, thyme, chives, hibiscus, mustard greens, wild strawberry greens and fruit, blackberries, bee pollen, butter beans, chick peas, kidney beans, leek, sweetcorn, celery greens, turnip and greens, endive, pineapple, parsley, bell peppers, grapes, prickly pear, papaya.
greens make up 80-90% of diet and i use the plants that contain a higher phosphurus volume rarely. most of the plants i feed have a much higer calcium to phosphurus ratio. check out the ratios for yourself if you havnt already.
i just go by the usual iguana diet advice and try to mix it up often, though they always get collard greens with every meal. i also give them freshly finely chopped food in the morning and then again in the late afternoon as heat dries food out quickly.
i like chuckwalla place food in several places in the vivariums.
i currently use supplements daily, nutrobal and calcium + D3. i will be reducing supplementation as they grow.
Im going to give my smaller male a meal worm and have given them both a tiny amount of boiled egg once which they eat.
if anyone has an advice they can give on the diet im feeding my chucks, please do let me know - really want to do everything i can for my chucks.
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