Description
Wombaroo Small Carnivore Food
Specially formulated live food substitute designed to meet the nutritional needs of sugar gliders, carnivorous marsupials, ferrets, and other animals that include insects or meat in their diet. Here's what you need to know:
Key Features:
- Live Food Replacer: Contains essential vitamins, calcium, minerals, and fatty acids to mimic the nutritional content of live prey.
- High in Protein: Provides essential amino acids necessary for healthy fur and muscle condition.
- Added Taurine: An essential nutrient for carnivores, supporting overall health and wellbeing.
Feeding Guide:
- Mix 3 parts powder (15g) with 2 parts water (10ml) to form a moist, crumbly food. Do not make into a paste.
- Store prepared food refrigerated for up to 1 day or frozen for up to 1 week.
Feeding Guide by Species:
- Dunnarts, Antechinus, Kowari & Quolls: Can represent up to 80% of the total diet. Supplement with various live prey items such as crickets, moths, grasshoppers, spiders, and day-old mice or chicks.
- Gliders, Pigmy Possums & Bandicoots: Can represent up to 20% of the total diet. Also feed Wombaroo High Protein Supplement dispersed over fruit.
- Hopping mice, Rats & Mice: Can represent 10-20% of the total diet.
- Ferrets: Can represent 10-20% of the total diet. Powder can be used to top-dress wet food.
- Echidna & Numbat: Mix prepared food with about 10% crushed termite mound and termites.
- Insectivorous Bats: Can be used as a maintenance diet, supplemented with moths, beetles, and a few fly pupae or mealworms.
Feeding Live Food:
- Live food is important for the nutritional and behavioral needs of carnivorous and omnivorous animals. Ensure live prey items represent the insect stage eaten by the animal in the wild.
Ingredients:
Meat meal, fish meal, blood meal, whey protein, soy protein, essential amino acids, vegetable oils, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, carotenoids, vitamins, minerals, and 1g/kg Actigen® dried yeast prebiotic.
Typical Analysis:
- Protein: 38%
- Fat: 12%
- Ash: 10%
- Moisture: 7%
- Energy (ME): 16 MJ/kg
Additional Notes:
- Wombaroo Small Carnivore Food is a nutritionally balanced diet formulated to support the health and vitality of carnivorous and insectivorous animals in captivity.