native earth feed

Has any tried this and what do you think about it compared to sow cubes and mazuri?

Its also known as Harlan Teklad. Its equal to or better than Mazuri.



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It's Harlan Teklad generic brand. Quite a bit better than Mazuri.

I dunno. I use 6f with amazing results. Healthy rats, gorgeous coats, huge liters, and no deaths. And not a singe tumor to speak of. There's a lot of haters on mazuri, but I love the stuff. Just my experience with it.

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I used to feed Mazuri.
I really loved it actually and still do. Never had an issue with it.
But since Harlan is equal/better and cheaper, I use it now instead. Helps cut costs and my rats are still doing really well on it.

I use mazuri 6f because i found a 50lb from the mazuri site was $37 shipped and harlan about the same for 40lb bag. Pet360 has free ship but they charge $44 (don't quote me on that) for the 40lb bag. I cant get any of this stuff locally so got to use online source. So far great but i want to get a bag of Harlan to make my own reservations about it.

I would probably use Native Earth it if it was cheaper. Paying $16.70 per 50lb bag of what I use now, cant afford to more than double my feed bill. (using Kent 19% Rodent Diet) Before I made the switch to that I was using Mazuri and had no complaints about it just found something for less $$.

I found mazuri 6f for $33 for 50lbs out the door. Plenty affordable for me to stick with it. Got about 300lbs on hand right now.

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Last time I ordered Native Earth from Pet360, which was about 2 months ago.

To ship 2 50lb bags from Mazuri directly, it's 64$ for me
It's $85 shipped for 5 bags of 40lb bags of Harlan(Native Earth).

So, $86 for 200 lbs vs $64 for 100lbs.
Unless they decided to increase their bulk price since, which would be unfortunate....

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Originally Posted by satomi325

Last time I ordered Native Earth from Pet360, which was about 2 months ago.

To ship 2 50lb bags from Mazuri directly, it's 64$ for me
It's $85 shipped for 5 bags of 40lb bags of Harlan(Native Earth).

So, $86 for 200 lbs vs $64 for 100lbs.
Unless they decided to increase their bulk price since, which would be unfortunate....

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That's a pretty good deal. I get mine literally around the corner tho so I can't beat the convinience. Mom and pop feed store that treats me well so I go back.

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I actually have used Mazuri for about as long as I have been breeding rodents and loved it. I ordered the 5 bags of Native Earth for 85 shipped and since I have been using Native Earth it just seems to be stinkier than when using Mazuri. And the Native Earth appears to break down into dust much easier and my rats go through it much faster. It will be back to Mazuri for me next order.

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Unless they decided to increase their bulk price since, which would be unfortunate....

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And they have. A week after I placed my order for 85 shipped it was up to $99 I have heard that Pet360 does this periodically. I don't know what its at now.

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And they have. A week after I placed my order for 85 shipped it was up to $99 I have heard that Pet360 does this periodically. I don't know what its at now.

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Darn it!

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Pet 360 also had a new customer promotion, so..I paid $73.52 for 200lbs of NE. I ended up buying ten bags.

Mazuri isn't a bad food. I use it in between NE orders. My rats seem to eat less NE than Mazuri, but there isn't a lot of noticeable differences between the two. Oxbow is another good one, but I've never had a rat that liked it.

Thanks for all the feedback. I will give it a try.

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And the Native Earth appears to break down into dust much easier.

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If you don't mind the extra effort, you can collect all the extra dust mix it with a little water, bake it, then re-feed.

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If you don't mind the extra effort, you can collect all the extra dust mix it with a little water, bake it, then re-feed.

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Or mix with water and feed to crickets ;)

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I really hope that they can lower the price down to 85 again. Have they done this kind of things before? changing the price constantly? If they do, i better order more next time when there is a discount going on.

This is something they have done in the past and a buddy of mine got screwed on it.

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Originally Posted by satomi325

Last time I ordered Native Earth from Pet360, which was about 2 months ago.

To ship 2 50lb bags from Mazuri directly, it's 64$ for me
It's $85 shipped for 5 bags of 40lb bags of Harlan(Native Earth).

So, $86 for 200 lbs vs $64 for 100lbs.
Unless they decided to increase their bulk price since, which would be unfortunate....

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Yeah saw this. One bag of NE for $44 or 5 for $99. 5 is obviously the better deal but this stuff should run about $15-20 so there actually just treating us like babies :D

Found it in another online place that I thought would be cheaper, but with shipping wasn't worth the cost. lol So I think I'll go with Pet360.

I ordered 15 bags of native earth off of pet 360 with free shipping and a 10% discount code, so it was less than 17$ a bag. Thats a lot cheaper than the 35$ a bag I was paying for Mazuri 6f. After buying NE, I'm starting to see my rats loosing a bit of size and eating less. I'm not sure if they don't like it as much or are not getting as much nutrition as the Mazuri was providing them, but I might be switching back. Only issue is I have 6 months worth of NE in my basement.

I'll be in Silver Springs tomorrow and I'm sure we'd buy it all from you if you wanna get rid of it!! :P

Is there no tax for you? There is additional tax in california, which did they did not have before.

When we have a house and I have somewhere to put 200lbs of food I'll be switching from Mazuri. In the meantime I get mine from the feedstore the next town over for 30 bucks for a 50lb bag of 6F.

Well after frantically worrying about my feeders after the switch to native earth, I realized my valve to the water system has been turned off for 3-4 days. Epic fail!!! Hopefully no harm is done and they will start putting on more weight. Can't believe I did that...I'll be reevaluating native earth for sure!!!

Well there you go!!!

the price on their website is just keep going up :mad:

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the price on their website is just keep going up :mad:

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Don't buy any. The price will come down.

You would think the people that set the prices would know better but they're just dumb. They keep chasing the demand and they're always behind.

Heres what it is now at Pet360:

Native Earth 18% Protein 4018 Rodent Diet 40-lbs Options
Our Price

• 40-lb bag
  $50.99
  
• 40-lb bag, 5 pack
  $109.99
  

http://www.pet360.com/product/9093/n...nt-diet-40-lbs

Looks like a KILLER deal! 1 Bag for $50.99 or 5 for $109.99

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Originally Posted by ROACH

Heres what it is now at Pet360:

Native Earth 18% Protein 4018 Rodent Diet 40-lbs Options
Our Price

• 40-lb bag
  $50.99
  
• 40-lb bag, 5 pack
  $109.99
  

http://www.pet360.com/product/9093/n...nt-diet-40-lbs

Looks like a KILLER deal! 1 Bag for $50.99 or 5 for $109.99


It was 86$ for 5 bags a few months back and 23$ for 1 bag

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