Daily Diet for 2/3 degus?! Stuck??

[GoosofCamelot]

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Hi, I am getting 2 or 3 degus soon, and I just wanted to make sure I have enough knowledge about their daily diet.

I will feed them a degu pellet, I've heard that you should give them 10g daily, but I am quite confused. Is 10g of pellet for each degu? How much would I feed 2 or 3 degus daily? And how many times day?

They would have water available at all times, obviously. In a bottle. And Unlimited hay.

As for herbs and stuff, I've heard that you can give them daisies, dandelions, dandelion leaves etc. Can you give these everyday, or occasionally? I would hide them around the cage so that they could kind of forage for it.

If you have any advice and facts, I'd really appreciate it.

Thank you

Becky 

[moletteuk]

The 10g often mentioned is per degu per day. Actually, up to date research shows it should be 10 to 15g and sometimes even more for youngsters, but it depends on the make up of the diet, 10g is a good starting point. You can feed the main feed once or twice a day. Have a look at the main food chart to help you choose a decent product and for more tips deguworld.proboards.com/thread/17365/commercial-food-chart

Plants and herbs and stuff are really healthy and should be fed as much as you can get hold of either picking yourself or buying mixes. See this thread for bought deguworld.proboards.com/thread/15657/bought-herb-leaf-flower-mixes?page=1 and lots of threads like this one for picking your own deguworld.proboards.com/thread/8772/safe-plants-herbs-leaves-consumption?page=1

We also have a general food guide although it's getting a bit out of date already, we don't recommend much in the way of grains at all now but there is still lots of good info in there deguworld.proboards.com/thread/16425/degu-feeding-guide

[GoosofCamelot]

Thanks so much!