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Post by Ryan on Mar 21, 2006 12:01:31 GMT -5
Does anyone know of a good place to find bulk feed for Rats/Mice and Game birds? I raise all my own feeders and have yet to find a place that carries Mazuri in large enough quantities, not too mention the rediculous price tag that the petstores throw on it.
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Post by kaley on Mar 31, 2006 20:10:45 GMT -5
Hey,
Not too sure about the game birds...But a few years ago when we had our commercial rodentry we used feeds available from the local livestock feed place...The base of the diet was UNMEDICATED hog grower (~50% of the mix), a rolled oats, corn and barley mix (~25% of the mix), cheap ass, would never feed it to a dog corn based dog food (~15%) and topped off with some black sunflower seeds.
This type of diet kept many thousands of rats breeding happily for several years...Maybe not "balanced" like a commercial diet - But it did the trick for us...and the big bonus is that those ingredients should be available at just about any feed store.
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Post by Ryan on Apr 1, 2006 0:37:22 GMT -5
Thanks Kaley.
I'm actually using a couple things right now including the cheap dog food as well as sweet roll and seeds, they also get veggies every once in a while. They have produced like crazy for me so I'm not complaining but if the option was out there for the Mazuri at decent quantities and price I wouldn't mind going for it.
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