Rats are popular pets. They rather clever also do not bring upon owners so much trouble as dogs and cats. But, that your pet led long full-fledged life, he needs to be fed correctly.
Instruction
1. Rats is omnivorous animals, and their diet has to be rather various to include all substances and minerals necessary for them. In food of a rat there have to be as little as possible fats. Also you should not abuse animal protein. The daily diet of a rodent has to look as follows: carbohydrates have to make 50-60%, proteins – 20-25% and fats – 5-10%. The standard daily rate of a forage approximately is 30-40 grams.
2. The important component of a diet of your favourite from which he receives a set of vitamins and minerals are vegetables and fruit. Eat carrots, potatoes, cabbage, a celery, cucumbers, turnip with pleasure of a rat. You should not give to rodents vegetables crude. Treating a rat with fruit, you remember that kustochka of many of them contain hydrocianic acid therefore before giving to the favourite an apricot, cherry, a peach or plum, it is necessary to remove from them stones.
3. Include low-fat meat, a liver, chicken tubular bones, fish, seafood in a diet of your rat. The liver at rats is not the strong place therefore beware to give them fried meat and also the meat seasoned with spices. But rodents perfectly will suit fish and meat broths.
4. Rats love dairy and fermented milk products. They can be indulged yogurt with bifidobacteria which will well influence intestines flora. Milk and dairy products with high fat content should be given carefully. Also once a week it is possible to treat a rat with boiled quail egg.
5. Nuts are a fine source of fats of plant origin, and cereals – a source of carbohydrates. Cereals can be given both in a germinated look, and in the form of kernels. Nuts also should be included in a daily diet of an animal, but you should not give them too much, and it is better to exclude almonds at all.