What's in the rodents bowl today?

WelshYorkieLover · #1 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 03:47 PM

I'm stealing this thread idea from Pogo in the dog section as I want some ideas of what to feed my three new rats (coming on saturday!) for dinner. I also have a hamster and I'm getting some mice in a few weeks time. So I thought it might be a good idea for everyone to post each day about what your little furries have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks etc. Also you could post pics of them eating them!!

thedogsmother · #2 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 03:55 PM

Funny you should post this, Ive literally just fed my lot. I make their mixes up but they alwayd get something else. The mice and gerbils are having baby corn on the cob and the rats are having home made veggy soup. It seems to be going down well judging by the sounds coming from the cages.

WelshYorkieLover · #3 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by thedogsmother

Funny you should post this, Ive literally just fed my lot. I make their mixes up but they alwayd get something else. The mice and gerbils are having baby corn on the cob and the rats are having home made veggy soup. It seems to be going down well judging by the sounds coming from the cages.

Ha ha are they noisey eaters? aww that's so cute. I'm so excited to be able to give my rats and mice meals too!!

WelshYorkieLover · #4 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 04:05 PM

Well yesterday apart from her hamster food Kiki had a toast crust and devoured. She doesn't seem to be that keen on fruit. She's refused any fruit I've tried her with. I will keep trying though.

Today she has her hamster food and she'll have a mix of veg (broccli, cauliflower, carrots and peas) and a little bit of porridge as she devoured that the night before last. She usually has these sort of things when she comes out for a little play!

blade100 · #5 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 04:27 PM

I do up my own rat mix of
6 scoops harrisons banana brunch rabbit food
3 scoops pasture mix
1 scoop fruity parrot
2 scoops Arden grange

Which all goes in a 60l tub mixed up.

Everyday my lot get Something wet like in the morning scrambled egg or porridge,fresh fruit and veg.
At night they get whatever we r having so long as it's not spicy.
Tonight there having pasta with chicken bacon onions garlic in a tomato and White sauce.

I like to feed my rats cooked veg too and they get meat.
I feel that this way they are getting all the vitamins and minerals that are required.
They also get dr squiggles daily essentials 3 times a week mixed in there water which makes it go floresent yellow.
But it has loads of vits n minerals.

I give these foods to my rats not all at same time of course.

Sweetcorn cooked uncooked
Pasta cooked uncooked
Broccoli cooked or raw
Carrots cooked or raw
Peas cooked or raw
Brussells cooked only
Banana
Pear
Apple
Avacardo stone and skin removed as toxic if eaten
Chicken raw or cooked rats love chomping on chicken wings or carcasses bones are full of calcium.
Any other cooked meat
Eggs
Fish
Potatoe cooked only
Curly kale raw very good for babies but adults love it too.
Yoghurt
Cheese small amount

I also give occasional yoghurt drops and choc drops.
I dont feed toast as I find it drags down there throats causing them to choke.

When I had hamsters I fed them what's on the list.

Hope that helps.

WelshYorkieLover · #6 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 04:38 PM

Yikes! So toast is not a good idea then? I thought it would be nice to nibble on. Kiki loved it!!

Argent · #7 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 04:43 PM

Everyone else's diets sound amazing DX

For financial and spacial reasons, I'm buying the best complete food I can afford. It's Supreme Science Selective Rat food, my lot are all bonkers for it, and they all seem to do well on it (I have fed RatRations mixes in the past and ol' Seamus used to have a Shunamite mix back when the original five were all with us).

Also, because I'm trying to fatten up Lavender and Seamus, they've been having baby foods too, most recently fisherman's bake DX Will be on sweet potato bake next.
They also get some leftovers off my plate (parents are on slimmers world, therefore so am I

so it's all good stuff, cooked from fresh) and raw/frozen veggies as and when

LostGirl · #8 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 05:00 PM

Argent - the mouse one is the ONLY food my mouse will eat, I tried to give him home made mixes, RR mixes and he only gets the selective one But then all the other rodents seem to love selective ones aswell.

I use-
Harrisons banana brunch
Skinners duck and rice
bird seed mix
dry pasta
cereals- bran flakes, cornflakes, musli, puffed rice and cheap shredded wheats
mmmm i think thats it in the food mix

then they get vegs/fruit/left overs etc

this morning it was grapes, some turkey meat and they will get left over jacket spud tonight

There isnt anything i dont give really, I do limit things but then im very much a believer in a little wont hurt or once in a blue moon!

the babies had toast with chocolate spread on it was a tiny amount but they loved it yesterday. They wont get it again for a long time (as its rare dd leaves any lol or the dogs get it!)

blade100 · #9 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 05:09 PM

I've had a few rats in the past gag on toast and it frightened the life out of me.
That's why I will never give it them again.

Forgot to say citrius foods are bad for male rats it can cause kidney failure.
So things like lemon oranges mango are a no no.

WelshYorkieLover · #10 (**permalink**) 24-11-2011, 05:12 PM

Yeah I am always cautious about citrus fruit. I know its not good for hamsters either.

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