Posted in Fudge, Healthcare, My Rats, Nutrition, Saffron, Sugar on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Sugar has gone down to 452g. Hooray. They have had nearly all their fresh food cut out completely, apart from a bit of veg a couple of times a week. None of them are looking worse for it, I think it’s because the weather’s warmer, they don’t need to use up energy keeping warm, so [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Nutrition, Treacle on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
because Sugar has so far managed to lose not a single gram. Bless her.
The Alpha Herbal food finally arrived and is now the base of the shunamite mix and they seem to really like it. Their bowls are empty in the evenings and because of the lack of fresh food i’ve had to put another [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Nutrition, Sugar on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The ratties are all on a diet. And it’s mostly Sugar’s fault! Well, really it’s my fault for letting Sugar get so fat. She is very rotund and even though she is perfectly healthy, it’s not good for rats (just like everything else!) to be too overweight. I weighed her yesterday and she is 477g. [...]
Posted in My Rats, Nutrition on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
… is Nutmeg! Well it was yesterday anyway. The girls have two fresh food bowls in their cage, one on the top level and one on the bottom - the theory being that they share and not all fight over the same food. Yesterday evening I put their bowls in (they had wholemeal toast and [...]
Posted in My Rats, Nutrition on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Since the babies were split into separate cage I have had an awful lot of food bowls to fill every day, so instead of walking backwards and forwards (especially now they’re outside) I put their bowls on a tray. For whatever reason this amuses me - this tray full of bowls and waterbottles! Here is a [...]
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats, Nutrition on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I weighed Mustard again yesterday. She’s gone from 223g up to about 250g. I was hoping she’s got heavier than that, but wasn’t really surprised she’s only gained a small amount of weight. She’s very active and doesn’t seem to be particularly ‘foody’. I want to get her up to the 270g mark which is [...]
Posted in My Rats, Nutrition on July 19, 2007 | No Comments »
My girls shared my hot chocolate yesterday! I sat on the floor with the mug in my hand and they climbed up my arm and stretched up from my lap to peer in the cup. Doughnut put her nose in, then Tinkerbell thought she’d put her foot in it, but it was a bit hot, [...]
Posted in My Rats, Nutrition on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I eventually managed to convince all six rats that sitting on the scales was a good idea - I think it had something to do with the yoggie dops offered as bribes! - and I now have weights for them all. They aren’t exact as they wouldn’t sit still for long enough but they’re close [...]
Posted in Nutrition on July 8, 2007 | No Comments »
My new rat, Mustard is a skinny little rat. I don’t think any of my girls are particularly big and Mustard is about half the size of Charlotte and Doughnut who are my biggest two. I did try to weight them but they got freaked out by the bowl wobbling on top of the scales. [...]
Posted in Nutrition on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
EMP is an egg food that is used for rearing birds, however it is often recommended in the rearing of baby rats as well as a good protein source. I fed it to my girls when Tinks and Doughnut were little at least once a week.
Today I have found out it contains Ethoxyquin, which is [...]
