LEENKNEGT-LIOEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hi all,
>An adult gerbil should eat 10 to 15 grams a day, right? My 2 gerbs are
>six and a half monts old. In two days they eat, together, about 5 to 10
>grams. In the cage there is always hay, a nibble thing, like a nut, a
>cracker,.. Since about a week or two I give them always a bit, ten to
>fifteen grains, of cat food, which they always eat.
>I put their food in a metal bowl on a floor, so it can't get covered
>with bedding. Every two days I change their food, which is never
>completely eaten, and it are not only shells that are left over. When I
>change it, it put the rest from the food on their bedding, cause
>otherwise it's a serious waste of food, I think. When they see that they
>start to eat the food that lays on their bedding! <sight>
>Do I just have weird gerbs, they are not very skinny or so? Can anyone
>clear this up?
>THANKS
>Sarah
Gerbils are very good at simply eating what they need.
The main exception to this is that they love anything novel. By moving
food they know about to a new place you are making it "new".
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
