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View Poll Results: what do you feed your mice
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Re: What do you feed your mice
I use Sand Valley Rodent lab block. $21/40lbs.. I'd love to find a lower cost option that they'd still do good on, as I use about 50lbs. a week.
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Re: What do you feed your mice
my mice get rabbit food, as its the cheapest thing here.. the rats get the same rabbit food, but also half a slice of bread per rat aswell, and any eadable leftovers from dinner etc. they often end up with a lot of veggies
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Re: What do you feed your mice
Originally Posted by cornmorphs
my mice get rabbit food, as its the cheapest thing here.. the rats get the same rabbit food, but also half a slice of bread per rat aswell, and any eadable leftovers from dinner etc. they often end up with a lot of veggies
The problem with that is that rabbit food usually contains a great deal of alfalfa which rats can not digest very well.
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Re: What do you feed your mice
I would have also thought rabbit food would be much too low in protein, as rabbits are strict herbivores, and rats and mice are omnivores.
By the way, I found the copper stats on lab block, and discovered it's already as high as it is in most pig feeds. That puts pig feed back on the table as a good alternative.
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Re: What do you feed your mice
Both my mice and my rats receive an assortment of goodies. Their staple consists of Forti-Diet, mixed with a general "rodent" blend of loops, seeds and dried fruit. On top of this I give them all fresh pieces of fruits and vegetables (just be careful not to give Legume heavy items or things that could cause gas troubles). I find that bananas, peaches and apples are great fruit sources. Carrots, cabbage, lettuce...even cucumbers are great vegetable sources. I also feed them a decent amount of protein, such as peanut butter, pieces of cooked chicken or pork chops. As stated earlier, mice and rats are omnivorous, so a good balanced selection of foods really makes for healthier happier rodents.
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Re: What do you feed your mice
I'm learning more by reading this thread, had no idea I could feed dog food to these breeders! Now, that goes for both mice AND rats?
I have Purina Dog Chow for our dog, who also gets table scraps every so often.
But, I bought this bag of Rabbit, Gerbil and Other Small Animals with alfalfa hay but it seems like mice just ground it up and make a dust pile out of it, the rats won't even touch it so they've been stickin' to scraps?
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Re: What do you feed your mice
Originally Posted by revxus
I'm learning more by reading this thread, had no idea I could feed dog food to these breeders! Now, that goes for both mice AND rats?
I have Purina Dog Chow for our dog, who also gets table scraps every so often.
But, I bought this bag of Rabbit, Gerbil and Other Small Animals with alfalfa hay but it seems like mice just ground it up and make a dust pile out of it, the rats won't even touch it so they've been stickin' to scraps?
Mice/rats don't need roughage like alfalfa. You basically wasted your money. Rabbits have different food needs than gerbils/rats/mice/hamsters. I just buy my mice gerbil/hamster food. They do quite well on it. I get an average of 5 or six mouse pups per litter.
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Re: What do you feed your mice
Originally Posted by Raptor
Mice/rats don't need roughage like alfalfa. You basically wasted your money. Rabbits have different food needs than gerbils/rats/mice/hamsters. I just buy my mice gerbil/hamster food. They do quite well on it. I get an average of 5 or six mouse pups per litter.
I take that back, it's actually a Western Timothy Hay Essentials bag, 3lb bought at Walmart, and Petco employees said it was ok as long as it said "small animals" anyway, I think they're wrong just as much as I am. They're just grinding up the food and sleeping on it?
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