Degu Food Ingredients
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Degu food ingredients. This is perfectly safe and provides a bit of variety. And don t forget there s tasty treats and soft absorbent bedding too. Find the perfect product for your small pet. Fruit coccidiostat an ingredient sometimes added to rabbit food molasses raisins anything too high in protein most hamster and gerbil foods.
Besides that you should be careful about starch rich ingredients such as cereals. Hay should not be brown green as green hay can cause bloating. As an alternative some owners feed their degus chinchilla pellets or a mixture of these with guinea pig food. Freshly made with vitamins and nutritious ingredients.
The majority of a degu s diet should consist of good quality hay such as timothy hay or meadow hay. Our tasty foods for degus are oh so delicious and specially formulated to meet your degu s nutritional needs. As part of the family a good quality diet is just as important for your pet as it is for the rest of the household. Make a nutrient rich grass like timothy hay or alfalfa available at all times.
Cabbage causes bloating sugar and molasses they can t metabolize it starchy foods too many carbohydrates. 2 tablespoons pulped liquidised beetroot you can instead use parsley or any degu safe veg 2 tablespoons powdered rosehips available in health food shops 2 tablespoons grass meal powder also health food shops or online if you leave this out you may need to up the flour content. Rabbit food may contain coccidiostat an ingredient that is toxic to degus chocolate. You should give about 10 15g of hard feed a day.
That s why we created vita prima degu food to have all the essentials for your degu to live a happy and healthy life. Pink or white hay should be thrown away as it s a sign of mould. Unsafe foods are dangerous to degus because they can cause harm or injury to the animal due to their attributes. Toxic foods are poisonous to degus and should be completely avoided.
Provide fresh vegetables daily such as sweet potato peeled uncooked carrots leafy greens spinach dandelion leaves parsley and green beans every day. Avoid giving your degu cruciferous vegetables like cabbage broccoli brussels sprouts and kale. Fast free shipping orders 49. Fatty ingredients such as sunflower seeds pumpkin seeds and nuts should also be avoided or picked out and used for a treat once in a while.