| When feeding crickets to your reptiles or other pets | | | | without theses products for years. I provide a small |
| there are a few things you nee to do to ensure the | | | | dish full of dry dog or cat food. I sprinkle a bit of |
| best nutritional value. Remember you are what you | | | | reptile vitamins and calcium on this. I also give me |
| eat. There is a huge advantage to keeping the | | | | crickets vegetables like mustard, and collard greens, |
| crickets at home or breeding your own allowing you | | | | kale, squash and peels from fruits like papaya, apples, |
| to "gut load" them before you feed them to your | | | | and pears. You can also offer fish flakes (their |
| pet. Simply put, gut loading is feeling your feeder | | | | favorite). |
| insects healthy food before you offer them to your | | | | The key is to provide your pet reptiles the best |
| reptiles. The large commercial breeders that supply | | | | most balanced diet possible. The bigger wider the |
| most pet stores feed their crickets the cheapest | | | | variety of foods you feed your crickets you will |
| food they can find. While these foods will keep the | | | | accomplish this task without a lot of work. |
| crickets alive they do little if anything for your pet | | | | Remember you don't have to break the bank to gut |
| reptiles. | | | | load your crickets. Simply feed them your leftover |
| There are products available on the market that are | | | | scraps from the fruit and vegetables that your family |
| especially made to gut load crickets. For the most | | | | eat. |
| part these products are good quality and get the job | | | | I will provide some links on my site to products that I |
| done. Keep in mind that these products are not | | | | have used over the years with much success. As |
| cheap though. I have been gut loading my crickets | | | | well as where you can find inexpensive crickets. |