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Cat and dog food for mice

Not as their only source of food, but I generally ad a little bit of high quality, high protein dog food to the mix if I have a litter on the ground. I read that the extra protein helps with cannibalism.
 
I would think any of the high quality, high protein foods would work. I was using Evo, before they got bought out by Proctor & Gamble, now I won't buy it.
Fromm Surf & Turf, Before Grain, Nature's Variety are a few
 
You gotta remember wild mice live on garbage... but I'm not sure how well mice do with different foods compared to rats. I've literally fed my rats mainly table scraps for a month and seen no difference in their bodies and pup production.

That being said, plenty of people raise mice on dog/cat food. I picked this for my rats at Walmart for 17 bucks for a 30 or 35 pound bag. You may want to put fresh veggies in with them, and maybe feed a lab block with dog food.

Also, red dye causes cancer. Yellow dye causes infertility in men. The best choice: NO DYES.
 
Another thing I have heard of people doing is giving table scrap meats. I have not done it, but I have heard of people who do.
 
ShenziSixaxis said:
You gotta remember wild mice live on garbage... but I'm not sure how well mice do with different foods compared to rats. I've literally fed my rats mainly table scraps for a month and seen no difference in their bodies and pup production.

That being said, plenty of people raise mice on dog/cat food. I picked this for my rats at Walmart for 17 bucks for a 30 or 35 pound bag. You may want to put fresh veggies in with them, and maybe feed a lab block with dog food.

Also, red dye causes cancer. Yellow dye causes infertility in men. The best choice: NO DYES.
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Er, well, they can live off of garbage, but that's certainly not a balanced diet for them, and probably causes them to live short lives. It's also not their actual natural diet, just their diet around humans.

In the wild they eat lots of grains and grasses, and anything they can get their hands on like fruits/nuts/bugs.
 
You could but why.

There are companies that have put in the research on rodent diets. Its affordable and less work than mixing your own. Now if you have time and enjoy it, By all means go for it. If your like me and spend an hour a day and several hours on the weekend cleaning and watering rodents. Its easier to by the pre-made.
 
Rodent diet is more cost effective if you can find it. Mice/Rats have will eat 2-3 times as much dog food as rodent diet while producing the same amount of offspring.
 
I feed my mice a homemade mix.

Old fashioned oats (come in the tub at Walmart)
Bag of Cockatiel Mix (also from Walmart)
Bag of Purina Puppy Small Bite (Walmart again!)
Box of Cheerios and/or Bran Flakes (depends on how cheap im feeling)

I add the whole tub of oats, whole bag of bird mix, 1/3-1/2 bag of puppy food, whole box of cereal.

I have never had any issue with moms eating babies due to dog food. No corn (corn is ok but isnt the best for them)

You can also give them either cooked or raw noodles and rice if you wanted to give them anything extra.


My Spiny Mice only get
Hamster/Gerbil food
a few pieces of ferret chow
and 4 crickets a week.
 
I feed a homemade mix that I do not have a recipe for as I put a new ingredient in every other week and blend well. I have not had problems with doing this other than I can tell when I need to add dye free dry cat food the pups are smaller and so are the numbers in the litters. Otherwise its a blend of seeds, dried veggies, grains, and other dried foods. I never give fresh as they just bury it and then I can not find it before it stinks. Always a dry diet with no dyes. Generally mice I have had would get half starved before they would touch lab block so I rarely offer it anymore.
 
Yep! mine too, i know people that only feed lab blocks and say their mice love them... mine not so much they put them in their water bowl they like them so much...
 
I use Ol Roy from Wal-Mart. 22% protein and no dyes. I raise mostly rats and when the litter size drops to less than 8 I trade out the oldest rat in a group of two females to one male.
 
If you have local feed stores you can call them and see if they have rodent food. We can get a 25lb bag of Mazuri Rodent Food for about 15$.
 
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