Feeder Food!

[Mitch21]

I just realized that I'm extremely low on my Mazuri lab block for my rats... And I called around to some places and nothing will be open by the time I get there...

So just to hold me over for a few days, could I potentially mix any kind of combination of foods for my ASFs? I heard of other people doing this but didn't want to do anything before I get clearance from you all...

I've got a bag of shelled-whole peanuts, a bunch of dog food, cereal... etc..


Do you think I could do a mix of any of this?

[littleindiangirl]

I'd do the dog food and cereal. I've had to scrounge like that before when I was two weeks away from my next bag of mazuri (back when I had to call in orders, hrfmph) I believe it's not very good to feed raw peanuts, although I could have that completely mistaken.

[Bruce Whitehead]

I have done the dog food and cereal. Just hard to find cereals that do not have all the added craps (sugar and salt).

The only time I am ever in the organic section for food is for my animals.

If I have it I throw in lentils, dried bread, dry pasta, birdseed, seed cereals (Sunny Boy, etc.).

[Mitch21]

Thanks!

I made a mix of dog food, dried pasta, cereal, and like the whole wheat nugget cereal stuff... All the rats seem to love the pasta. They just sit there chewin' down stick after stick of the pasta...

So thanks again! This should hold me over till I get get some more mazuri...

[littleindiangirl]

I give my rats pasta every cleaning day, I love the chatter of hundred rats gnawning on some pasta.

[nixer]

asfs love bird seed

[RandyRemington]

The wild bird seed (garden rather than pet department) is the most economical bird seed. However, watch out for brands with lots of the large (nearly BB bullet sized) red sorghum seeds. They are more irregularly shaped than the smaller millet which they love. The millet can come in either red or white but is smooth even if often flattened but the sorghum has a point and indentions. The sorghum was actually bred to taste bad to birds but it's cheap so of course bird seed companies often use it. Got to love the pet food industry that does things like package rabbit food as Guinea pig food without the vitamin C they need to survive and at a hundred times the price of bulk rabbit food.