feeding BP's peanut fed rodents

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I agree nutritionally nuts are pretty poor but I have had luck with adding nuts and some other seeds to decrease the number of pinkies eaten by their moms. I'm not sure what it was about the nuts that did the trick but it helped my numbers pretty significantly as snakesrkewl stated though there is a lot of fat in them so watch the amount your giving.

I've read that the nuts have protein and moms eating their pinkies can be from not having adequate protein. I put some dog food or a little bit of cat food (just not too much on the cat food, then they can get protein over load) in the pregnant and nursing mom's food. Then sometimes I'll put a bit in the babies' food for the first week after they're separated from mom.

Sorry about the thread jacking ^_^;;