Dubia Roach Help?!?

[BeardieeNewbiee]

I ordered 50 females and 20 males and they'll be here in a couple of days I was wondering if chicken feed is good to give them and if 16% crude protein is good and all these ingredients please let me know what you feed yours

 

[CooperDragon]

I give my roaches very little protein. They primarily eat fruit and veg scraps from leftover salads and from the kitchen in general. I try to feed them a similar diet to what I feed my dragon for the most part. They are very good composters =)

 

[BeardieeNewbiee]

Bit is this chicken feed good enough ?

 

[traildrifterphalanx]

I'd agree, I tend to not give them anything with protein as too much will cause an issue with how their body stores it, which can then cause issues when fed to your dragon.

I give mine the veggies that start to get a little iffy or the stuff I bought for my dragon that they no longer like. I buy fresh greens weekly for the dragons, about 99c for a bundle of 1 fresh kind of green, and whatever's left over goes to the roaches when the new fresh greens are in. I try to only give the roaches enough to eat in a small time to not have molding food or increase the humidity too much.

I also feed them apples. I'll buy a bag of apples on sale and they keep in the fridge very well, so I'll cut them into slices and plop them in. Usually 1 apple at a time until it's all gone, for the above reasons