Xtravital

[girlrazor]

At the moment I'm feeding my degus Xtravital - does anybody have any experience with this food?



Looks like a really good mix and they seem to love it

The ingredients etc are as follows:

Ingredients: Wheat, high value soya, fibre extrudates, peas, alfalfa, locust beans, maize, carrot flakes, soya oil.

Sugar-free and low in fat! XtraVital Degu food is a tasty and balanced complete premium food. Degus are strictly vegetarian and have special nutritional needs. This food is a special formula containing vegetable nutrients. In the wild degus mainly eat grass, tree and shrub bark, vegetable leaves, grains and occasionally. High-quality ingredients maximise acceptance and healthy growth. The protein-coated chelated minerals ensure excellent absorption of these minerals into the body.

Also contains:

Echinacea, a plant extract that boosts the body's natural defences for a degu full of life.

Extra crunchy ingredients for dental health.

Added FOS* to boost the growth of healthy intestinal bacteria MOS** prevents harmful bacteria from forming in the intestines or being absorbed into the faeces, endangering other animals.

Recommended feeding: This tasty food is readily consumed. We advise that you monitor while the degu is eating. When starting with XtraVital you may like to mix it with the old food. Never feed peanuts, raisins or food containing sugar! The average degu eats around 20-25g per day. Refresh the food every day, and add a large portion of fresh straw and clean drinking water!

It costs £1.99 for 500g.

[phoenix]

i have found they leave the long green bits, not sure what it is, but the rest they love

[Deguman]

Looks like good stuff to me.

I'll try to find it locally to me.

[glow=red,2,300]Regards,
Deguman[/glow]

[sarah]

I wish I could find it in the US --

Sarah

[Aimeelou]

Looks a good mix by looking at it, bit i cant see any alfalfa sticks in there?

[girlrazor]

They're in there, and they get a good supply of timothy hay every day too.

[tigerlily]

What is "fibre extrudates"?

Soya has effects to hormone system and in this mix there is a lot of soya. Too much. Maybe this mix is low in sugar but there is many important things left. Wheat is first in the ingredients list, it makes me a little bit worried... It isn't very natural food for degu. It can be used in degufood, but not that much.

*Yea, I know, bad english...*

[ilovemydegus]

Hi everyone, is this Xtravital - 'Chinchilla Xtravital' i have searched round alot of pet centres and a few of them only seel the Chinchill Xtravital. I am currently feeding them on Chinchilla pellets but this looks lovely.

[sutherland]

i use BEAPHAR XTRA VITAL for degus it dosent look like this but they seem to love it

[ilovemydegus]

degu lover, is this BEAPHAR XTRAVITAL good for degus then, or are there some foods you pick out? are you from the UK - was wondering where you get it from or do you think the Chinchill Xtravital would be ok to use for my degus?

[sutherland]

i leave all the contence of the packet in. there are pellets and grass and a few seeds no sweet corn or artifical colourings it is low in sugar and fat .so i think it is fine mix for degus
i am from the uk i havent seen the chinchill mix so i cant say. it looks like the picture but every thing is smaller

[ilovemydegus]

oh well that sounds good, where do you buy yours? the chinchilla mix has raisins in it.

[nettianddave]

e-mailed Longleat Safari Park and this is what they feed them.
35g of a 50/50 mix of chincilla and rabbit pellets
Fresh hay and water daily
1 square centimeter of carrot once per week
1 peanut once per week
With an occasional handful of grass and/or danelion if available.