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SMALL CARNIVORE FOOD
Carnivorous and omnivorous animals need
to catch live food. Feeding live food is not only important nutritionally
it also helps maintain a healthy attitude in captive animals. If insects
are offered as live food ensure they represent the insect stage eaten by
the animal in the wild. There are considerable differences in composition
between mature and immature or larval stages of insects. Animals that prey
on mature insects such as moths, beetles and crickets should not be fed
large numbers of larval stage insects. Captive animals are commonly fed
meal worms and fly pupae which are larval stage insects. These can be poor
food substitutes for many animals because of their high fat content. Fat
contains twice as much energy as other nutrients and increased quantities
in the diet can significantly dilute the intake of essential nutrients.
We have maintained the kowari,
fat-tailed dunnart and yellow-footed antechinus exclusively on this food
for many months however we recommend that the food represent at most 80%
of the total diet. The balance can consist of
crickets, moths, grasshoppers and a few meal worms.
The food is successfully used as a
maintenance diet for all Quolls while supplementing with day old mice and
insects.
Common Bent-wing and Lesser Long-eared
Bats have been successfully kept using this food as a maintenance diet
while supplementing them with moths, beetles and a few fly pupae.
Include up to 20% of this food in the
diet of gliders, pygmy possums, rodents and bandicoots.
Mix this food with about 10% crushed
termite mound and some termites to feed to the Echidna and Numbat.
DIRECTIONS
Mix about 70g of Small Carnivore Food
with about 30ml of warm water. Add the water slowly to the powder while
mixing to produce a moist, crumbly food. Do not make into a paste.
FEED ESTIMATES
Feed estimates have been calculated for
marsupial and eutherian animals assuming the following.
| 1. Animals are kept in a
thermo-neutral environment. |
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| 2. Prepared Small Carnivore Food is
the only source of food. |
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| 3. Food utilisation is 75% efficient. |
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| 4. Maintenance Energy Requirement = 2
x Standard Metabolic Rate. |
For a marsupial of body weight W (kg)
feed 60W-0.737.g-1.day-1
For a eutherian of body weight W (kg)
feed 87W-0.750.g-1.day-1
Animal
Weight
g |
Marsupial
Prepared
Food
g/day |
Eutherian
Prepared
Food
g/day |
|
Animal
Weight
g |
Marsupial
Prepared
Food
g/day |
Eutherian
Prepared
Food
g/day |
| 5 |
1.2 |
1.6 |
|
80 |
9.3 |
13.1 |
| 10 |
2.0 |
2.8 |
|
90 |
10.2 |
14.3 |
| 15 |
2.7 |
3.7 |
|
100 |
11.0 |
15.5 |
| 20 |
3.4 |
4.6 |
|
120 |
12.6 |
17.7 |
| 25 |
4.0 |
5.5 |
|
140 |
14.1 |
20.0 |
| 30 |
4.5 |
6.3 |
|
160 |
15.5 |
22.0 |
| 35 |
5.0 |
7.0 |
|
180 |
17.0 |
24.0 |
| 40 |
5.6 |
7.8 |
|
200 |
18.3 |
26.0 |
| 50 |
6.6 |
9.2 |
|
250 |
21.5 |
30.5 |
| 60 |
7.5 |
10.6 |
|
300 |
25.0 |
35.5 |
| 70 |
8.5 |
11.8 |
|
350 |
27.5 |
39.5 |
Wombaroo Small Carnivore Food is available in the
following pack sizes.
250g, 1kg and 5kg packs
