...goodness, you've got quite a selection there....
...my suggestion to you would be to mix them, then they could pick what they
like best :o)
Something else that would probably be more beneficial, but would take more
time...would be to offer them all three, but in separate containers and
observe closely which ones they like best or what they pick out of each...
...it seems to me that gerbils arn't picky eaters, but they do seem to have
preferences....so its a matter of chosing which is healthiest & also has the
most "choice tidbits" so that food is not wasted, too...remember the less
fats and oils the better (those types are better fed as treats so they arn't
consumed in excessive ammounts :o)
...anybody else with comments?
-80
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From: Patty Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: food
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:29:03 EDT
ok, I have 3 different mixes of gerbil food and i would like to know which
is
best:
1. oat groats, wheat, corn, white millet, sunflower seeds, med milo, split
yellow peas, wheat midlings, toasted corn flakes, soybean meal, shelled
peanuts, dehydrated alfalfa meal, pumpkin seed, flaked wheat, soybean hulls,
ground corn, pinto beans, dehydrated carrots, corn glutten meal, ground
wheat, safflower seed, canadian trapper peas, raisins, dicalcium phosphate,
calcium carbonate, ground oats, cane mollassas, dried banana, dehydrated
papaya, soybean oil, almonds, dehydrated apple, salt, meat and bone meal,
egg
shell, pottasium chloride, L-lysine, animal fat, brewers dried yeast, dried
egg product, blah blah blah a bunch more crap i've never heard of....
Crude protein: 15.00%
Crude fat: 6.00%
Crude fiber: 9.00%
Moisture: 12.00%
Vitamin A: 3,000 IU/kg
Vitamin D3: 800 IU/kg
Vitamin E: 30 IU/kg
2. Crude Protien:15%
crude fat: 7%
crude fiber: 9%
Moisture 12%
vitamin a: 2,500
vitamin d3: 500
vitamin e:20
(no sunflower seeds peanuts corn or safflower seeds)
3. proyein 14%
fat 4%
fiber8%
moisture 12%
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