 | |||
         Feeding Hompage - Shunamite diet - My rats diet - Rabbit & Rat foods - Treats - Fresh Foods - Make & Bake   | |||
Fresh
Foods | |||
Most websites and rat owners will tell you to feed fresh foods 7 days a week in the evening. This is fine if that's what you wish to do. I only feed mine 4 or 5 times a week on fresh as I found that they were always waiting for the fresh foods to come and not eating their dry mix. You should give them approx 80% dry & 20% fresh. I try and vary what I give them and try and offer them new foods. In the winter, due to my rats living in a shed, I need to add pasta to my mix to help them cope with the colder weather. I also offer them some foods which are higher in protein such as chicken, eggs and cat food. The advantage to rats is that they will eat nearly everything you give them. There are some things that you need to avoid, such as citrus fruit for boys as this is linked to cancer. I do make things out of the The Scuttling Gourmet book which is very good for ideas. A list of suitable Fruit, Vegatables and Beans can be viewed here | |||
Some
of my rats favourites: | |||
Kittens
need a high protein intake up until they are 12 weeks old and they are given the
following: Daily (large) portion of curly kale, clover or young dandelion leaves. Broccoli Carrot. Chicken (whole wings and drumsticks provide the higher protein flesh and the benefits of mineral rich bones to chew on). Egg (scrambled, boiled and chopped, mixed into porridge or soaked into wholemeal bread and cooked in a touch of olive oil). Fish - especially oily varieties (cooked and tinned [lowest salt] acceptable). Also shellfish. Lactol (bottled or made into porridge or over wholemeal bread). Dr Squiggles Insectivorous feast (a high quality high protein egg food). Nature Diet moist puppy food Cat food in gravy Banana and avocado pear. Vitalin Original with Lactol and EMP (mixed to a porridge consistency) Porridge | |||