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Another rodent food question?
So I havn't breed mice/rats/asfs in a long time as I have been outt've the hobby for about 3 years. I've finally gotten to a point where I'm starting to slowly get back into the herp hobby now with a little more time and money. I'm already working on an set of mice and rat racks. But my question is about the choice of food. The last time a bred rats I fed them an cheaper dog food. I don't remember the name but picked it up at the local Dollar General. Now I have a black lab and I got to looking at the food I feed her which is Diamond Brand High Energy Sporting Dog Food. I know I should look at Mazuri rodent breeder but since I buy the Diamond Brand anyways I figured it might work. Here is the break down.
Diamond Brand:
Crude Protein- 24.0%
Crude Fat- 20.0%
Crude Fiber- 5.0%%
Ingredients:
Chicken by-product meal, ground corn, wheat flour, rice bran, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), corn gluten meal, dried plain beet pulp, millet, fish meal, natural chicken flavor, meat meal, salt, potassium chloride, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, niacin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B2 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.
Caloric Content:
3,820 kcal/kg (394 kcal
Where the Mazuri Rodent Breeder has:
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude protein- 16.0%
Crude fat- 6.0%
Crude fiber- 6.0%
Ground Corn, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Porcine Animal Fat Preserved with BHA, Cane Molasses, Wheat Middlings, Calcium Carbonate, Ground Oats, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Dicalcium Phosphate, Ground Wheat, Ground Soybean Hulls, Fish Meal, Salt, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dried Beet Pulp, Wheat Germ, Corn Gluten Meal, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, L-Lysine, Soybean Oil, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Dried Yucca Shidigera Extract, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Cholecalciferol, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Biotin, DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Nicotinic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Carbonate, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Cobalt Carbonate.
I guess my question is does anything stand out about the Diamond brand dog food that you would avoid feeding to your mice, rats or asfs?
Last edited by Muskrat24; 08-26-2014 at 11:34 PM.
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