Boiled eggs?

[BindiBoo]

Hi, ive heard that to give them calcium you can feed beardies chopped boiled eggs, is this safe/and true?

 

[techdave]

Eggs should only be given occasionally. They need calcium 5x a week and the one time a week that eggs could be given isn't enough. Dusting your feeders or the veggies are the best ways other than phoenix worms, which are already high in calcium.

 

[BindiBoo]

I dust, but my im scared it wont be enough, is there such thing as od, and is it dangerous?

 

[techdave]

Yes and yes. You can tell when they have too much when their urate has a yellow tinge to it. I don't know how long this has to go on for it to become bad, but once you see it, back off a bit. A good way to remember how much, for younger beardies, one feeding a day, 5 days a week dust all the feeders. If they get to the 35-40 mark, you can probably stop there for that day. That's more of a guess than anything. But don't worry too much about overdoing it until you see the yellow urate. And also give lots of baths.