Millet seed?

[dyzired]

Can I buy a strip of the millet seed (they sell it for birds) as a snack for my degus? Would they even like it? Or is it bad for them?

[Kat]

I give it to my degus. They have a few of the little bunches from the main strip. They really like it. They also have it in their seed mix. Its one of the lower fat seeds.

Kat

[malteser60]

Millet seed is definitely a good seed for them and as Kat said it's the lower fat seeds. I must admit I put a whole spray in the cage for them. After the initial frenzy they will then nibble on it and it normallly lasts about 2-3 weeks or so.

[Deleted]

Millet seeds are one of the favourite snacks of my degus, although I have to chop the spray
down to smaller pieces. Otherwise Elune will run off with the whole thing and defend it loudly

[dyzired]

Haha okay thanks guys. And what other seeds do you guys give your degus.. And how often can they have them?

[malteser60]

Have a look at this thread for an idea of two different seed mixes you can try:

deguworld.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=food&action=display&thread=8775

[coronasol]

Mine go nuts for this too - I usually peg a whole spray in the inside of the cage and it lasts about 3 days - they go nuts initially for it!

[flibbertigibbety]

So glad to read this. I have a huge bag of birdseed, mostly consisting of millet and black oil sunflower seeds. a little bit of crushed corn that I'll try to minimize. Happy to see that I can feed it to my goos. And they're lovin in. Sprinkle it here and there so they can go forage. What happy adorable little goos.

[savvy]

I tend to pick out any corn I find in my degus food as I've got one with diabetes.

If you really want them to have some fun, give them each a hazelnut, still in the shell, then sit back and enjoy.