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Really organ meat a no no I thought in the wild a big part of their diet that consists of meat is carrion and as far as I know the first part they go for is the heart, liver....ect (because it has the most nutritional value). So I thought if anything organ meat would be really good for them I may be wrong but this is what I have been told by many people who I know that have been working with reptiles of all sorts for sometime. Organ meat is mainly what I feed to my monitor as well because as you said like tegus they eat more insects and carrion rather then full pray such as rodents.
Liver, for one, is a very rich source of vitamin A. Too much and you'll induce hypervitaminosis A in your tegu. Secondly, the liver is the filter of the body. Any contaminants the animal may have eaten, this is where it would have wound up.
Other organ meats tend to be high in other compounds, and they are never nutritionally balanced. Secondly, as Alex once outlined, most of the organ meats are harvested very poorly and wind up contaminated by fecal flora. Whereas I tend to think this is a very low risk (tegus do eat whole animals, afterall, and therefore will ingest fecal flora this way) there is little denying there is a risk involved. However, the main thing is that most organ meats tend to be very rich in specific compounds that can lead to nutritional disorders (gout, hypervitaminosis whatever, etc.) and they tend to be the most likely sites for generalist parasites. Normally, I would say most parasites are quite host specific and there's little concern when feeding something not from the tegu's home environment to it, however the various internal organs are where you'll typically find the ones that tend to be generalists and have fairly good success at infecting multiple taxa.
my beardie went into shakes for a day or so and i took him to the guy i bought him from he gave him some meds and he was fine. about a month later he did the same thing and was throwing up and his stomache sunk in and he died.
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I thought in the wild a big part of their diet that consists of meat is carrion and as far as I know the first part they go for is the heart, liver....ect (because it has the most nutritional value). So I thought if anything organ meat would be really good for them I may be wrong but this is what I have been told by many people who I know that have been working with reptiles of all sorts for sometime. Organ meat is mainly what I feed to my monitor as well because as you said like tegus they eat more insects and carrion rather then full pray such as rodents.
