----- Original Message ----- From: The Jeu-jeu Gerbils <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 5:18 PM Subject: Making fresh gerbil food
Can you please give me some tips? Has anyone done this before and > what worked best? Happy to - I've come up with several recipes for a variety of reasons... my most recent, and the one that seems so far to be the most "acceptable" to my gerbs and less high in fat is: 60 g. Healthy Snacks vegetarian dog biscuits 100 g. millet 10 g. hempseed (for the vit. E - anti-oxidant) 90 g. barley flakes 80 g. triticale flakes 80 g. rye flakes 30 g. puffed rice This recipe has roughly 14 % protein and 4% fat. I had noticed that my gerbs were getting a bit chunky.. :) All this stuff I can get at the local health food store - organic too, which I think is important. I think having flakes and puffed this and that can be good for some grains because, like rice, some dried whole grains may expand inside their stomachs. I'm not sure how true this is, but my gerbs definitely prefer flakes over the straight grain, even if it's the same grain. I could share a list of ingredients that my gerbils all treated with revulsion, if you like. The thing they like least right now is the Millet, which they used to love, but they'll still eat it. > > One more thing -- are butternut squash seeds the same as pumpkin and sunflower seeds > in terms of fat content? I've been feeding zucchini seeds to them and they love it. > My mom just gave me a bunch of butternut squash ones and I'm not sure if they are > high in fat. My guess would be yes. I used to include pumpkin seeds in my recipes (they LOVE these), but they were just too high in fat to make it into my most recent recipe. >
