Eating Question 2

LOL - crested food fight and painting contest!

I add my supplements right in with the baby food and dust the insects a time or two a week Marla for the first few weeks it is very hard to tell if they are eating the baby food or not ,just set it up in as smooth of a puddle as you possibly can and you will see tiny indents in it the next morning they dont eat much at first the best way to tell if they are eating is their activity level, if they are still bouncing around the cage after 2-4 days after hatching they are probably eating the baby food
I always intoduce a bit of baby food to them on the end of my finger for the first couple nights to make sure they know the smell as food It is hard to tell when they track through it .. more than likely they got a bit just from cleaning up after the food fight they dont like any thing sticking to their head at all so ill some times just dab a bit on their nose and it gets cleaned off righ away

Thanks Robert. They had another

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crested food fight and painting contest

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(good description, TG!) with last night's dinner, but when I put it in with them last night, I did dab a little on each of their noses. Seeing "indents" is how I figured out my first cresties were eating at the beginning of this year, but if you saw this, you'd know there is absolutely no way to see indents in the food. The piece of foil is almost completely clean of food, as are the cresties, but the substrate (damp paper) and walls really look just the way Tiger described. I figure with that much interest in the food, they must be eating some of it, though they're so skinny I want them to fatten up a little! :)

they must be eating at least some of it if they have the energy to smear it all over the place like that. creativity is a sign of intelligence. let them paint! :P

LOL, good point. They certainly don't seem to be suffering from a lack of energy. Though I don't know how I could stop them from painting even if I wanted to. :)

Still waiting on a reply from the CGD producers... I have this feeling that they aren't going to reply to me. Might have to get a phone number and give them a call when I get bored lol.

to get in touch directly with allen you will probably have to call him


vaughn