Feeding ASF's

[Jay_Bunny]

I was wondering what kind of diet ASF's required. I feed Mazuri 6F to my rats and plan on using the same lab block for mice. Is this a good diet for ASF's?

[jglass38]

I feed Mazuri 6f. Perfectly fine. I supplement with some sunflower seeds and sometimes leftovers although ASFs seem to appreciate human food much less than regular rats do.

[FIREball]

I feed Mazuri 6f also

[rabernet]

I feed Mazuri 6f. Perfectly fine. I supplement with some sunflower seeds and sometimes leftovers although ASFs seem to appreciate human food much less than regular rats do.

I supplement with Cockatiel food - they seem to love that. They also like wheat puffs for some reason. And I'm drawing a blank on what something else is called. You find it in the bird section, it's on long stems and has tiny seeds on it - they go nuts over it - I'm out, so I don't have a bag of it right now. I'll figure out what it's called and come back and edit my post! LOL

[jglass38]

I supplement with Cockatiel food - they seem to love that. They also like wheat puffs for some reason. And I'm drawing a blank on what something else is called. You find it in the bird section, it's on long stems and has tiny seeds on it - they go nuts over it - I'm out, so I don't have a bag of it right now. I'll figure out what it's called and come back and edit my post! LOL

I think you mean millet.

[rabernet]

I think you mean millet.

That's it! I was just coming back to post that - they go NUTS over that!

[Microddot]

I use Mazuri 6f. I give the Lettuce once a week and a cuttlebone [(Bird Section)for Calcium]. I am going to start getting seeds next week.

[Jay_Bunny]

Thanks. I'm going to check out the caresheet on ASF's and start trying to find some around here.

[littleindiangirl]

The only type of lettuce that should be given to rodents should be a dark green leaf like kale, spinach, collard greens. No iceberg and I would go so far as to say to not give romain lettuce either. They'll get runny stinky stool that offers little nutritional value.

They do seem to love carrots, tomatos, bananas and a few other melons like cucumber, honey dew and the like.

They shouldn't get too many fatty seeds like sunflower seeds, peanuts etc. It WILL make their coats very greasy and yellow. It should be a treat.

I think Rabernet has the right idea giving the cockatiel feed that is mixed with a few seeds.

[lillyorchid]

I feed mine Harlan Teklad.