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Post by racingdegu on Sept 19, 2005 19:01:22 GMT
Hi nat. Your degus need non-molassed guinea pig food (Burgess Supa Guinea Excel) food or equivellant, hay and water. That`s all they need to survive. No sugar, no nothing. Degus won`t sit on your lap either. It`s natural for them to want to play, but only let them out in a safe environment and always supervised by you. I and the other members have given you some good husbandry advice and this is all you need to know and you are free to read the other related posts on this forum regarding cages, accessories and health. Failing that, you may need to speak to a councillor! (Sorry Meg...it`s April here!)
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Post by Sunshinemeg on Sept 21, 2005 19:56:13 GMT
I have had several worried members ask me about your posts nat, but for now I am going to assume that as you are not from the UK, it is the challenge of working in english that is causing problems. Please think about what you post carefully, it wouldnt have caused complaints if you had said you had a cigarette near the cage and they reacted to it. They way your phrased it had us all worried! If you have any other genuine questions, as April has said, we are here to offer good advice!
meg ;D
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Post by nat on Sept 27, 2005 22:57:37 GMT
I'm so sorry. Sometimes it's difficult to say something in different language. Specially when you have some colocation in your native language that may not exist or mean sth different in the other language.
If I didn't care for my degus I would give them sweets but I love them so I wanted to know everything about feeding them. With nicotine I thought it was wieard that the reacted that way so I wondered why that situation occured.
I also wonder can they eat the things that squirrels eat? As far as I'm concerned they are also squirrels.
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Post by diet otaku on Sept 28, 2005 13:10:21 GMT
they behave like squirrels, but while squirrels subsist mainly on nuts, degus should be limited in their consumption of nuts. for my degus, nuts are a treat - almond slices and the occasional raw peanut, shell on.
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Post by racingdegu on Sept 28, 2005 14:35:18 GMT
Which country are you in nat? You should just stick to the foods that are allowed for degus (non molasses guinea pig foods and/or chinchilla pellets). Treats (on occassion ONLY) consist of a few sunflower seeds, the odd peanut, a few pumpkin seeds, some low fat corn flakes crushed onto the cage floor to give the degus something to dig at! and that`s all they need. They don`t even need treats, as long as they have food in their dish daily that is healthy for them and fresh water in a VERY clean bottle, you have nothing more to know. Hope this helps.
ALSO....make sure they have access to hay each and every day as degus need a lot of fibre in their diet, okay?
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tigerlily
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 28, 2005 17:06:07 GMT
I feed my degus Altromin chinchillapellet and Bello guineapig pellet. I think, both contains a bit of molasses. But here just isn´t any pellet where is no molasses... But I know some degus wh have lived 9 years with this food, so I think it´s ok.
Isn´t there ANY sugars in degus diet? I thought that bit of sugar is ok.
I bought Bunny- guineapig pellet today. The LOVE it. Contains no added colours or preservatives, and this pellet contains 600mg C-vitamin in one kg. But it is very expensive, half kg was 5.30€.
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Post by diet otaku on Sept 28, 2005 18:01:24 GMT
i'm sure degus can survive with a LITTLE bit of sugar in their diet (i am also unable to find pellets without molasses). from the way their systems have been described, they sound like they basically have low insulin production - that is, once they have too much sugar they develop full-blown diabetes, but they should be able to process minimal amounts of sugar... it would just take them so much longer that they wouldn't be able to handle as much sugar as many other animals consume.
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Post by nat on Sept 28, 2005 18:07:12 GMT
I'm from Poland.
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Post by nat on Oct 1, 2005 14:19:35 GMT
Can they eat chestnuts? My degu found one on my desk and got mad on it. I had to fight with him to get it out of his mouth. He didn't start eating it, uff...
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Post by diet otaku on Oct 2, 2005 0:39:39 GMT
i don't remember, are chestnuts hard or soft? if they're hard, like walnut and peanut shells, then chestnuts might actually be a good treat for them, maybe once a week or something. if they're soft, it would be better to avoid them because he won't get a workout or any fiber to balance out the fat content from eating it.
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Post by nat on Oct 2, 2005 13:18:57 GMT
they are very hard. But i wonder aren't they poissones? I heard somewhere that people shoudn't eat chestnuts from streats only bought cause this are poissones. But squirrels eat them so I don't know. But I thing ke know what is good for him...
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