Wombaroo Small Carnivore Food 250g

Wombaroo Small Carnivore Food is a nutritionally balanced live food substitute for sugar gliders, carnivorous marsupials, ferrets and other animals that include insects or meat as part of their diet.

• 250 g pack
• Typical analysis: 38 percent protein, 12 percent fat, 10 percent ash and 16 MJ per kg metabolisable energy
• Added taurine, an essential nutrient for carnivores, plus calcium, minerals and fatty acids
• Ingredients include meat meal, fish meal, blood meal, whey and soy protein, lysine, methionine, vegetable oils, carotenoids and a full vitamin and mineral premix
• Mix 3 parts powder (15 g) to 2 parts water (10 mL) to form a moist crumbly food. Do not make it into a paste

Manufacturer inclusion rates: up to 80 percent of the total diet for dunnarts, antechinus, kowari and quolls; up to 20 percent for gliders, pigmy possums and bandicoots; and 10 to 20 percent for hopping mice, rats, mice and ferrets. For echidnas and numbats, mix the prepared food with about 10 percent crushed termite mound and termites. Insectivorous bats have been kept successfully on this food as a maintenance diet alongside moths, beetles and some fly pupae or mealworms. Store prepared food refrigerated for 1 day or frozen for 1 week.