Small Marsupial Omnivore Pellets
This diet is designed as a supplementary feed for small omnivorous marsupials.
- Detailed nutritional requirements of marsupials is not well characterized. This diet was designed using the best information we could obtain from the literature to satisfy the nutritional requirements of a mixed colony of small omnivorous marsupials. The colony contained Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), Bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) and Boodies (Burrowing Bettong) (Bettongia leseur).
- Feedback from animal carers have indicated that the diet is palatable to most of the individuals of these species.
- From several studies performed on the gut and faecal contents of wild small omnivorous marsupials it would appear that their natural diet was relatively highly digestible but had a fairly high fibre content. The raw material selection was carefully chosen in an attempt to mimic these nutritional parameters
- The diet is manufactured as an 4 mm diameter cube 5 – 12 mm long.
- Packaging is in 20 Kg woven polyethylene bags.
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