Dog food? cat food? or Mazurri whats the difference?

[Lisa]

we use super c dogfood. $8 a bag, same ingreadient and nutrition list as mazuri until you get down to near the end. it's not greasy like good dog food. I wouldn't feed it to a dog though. makes nice rats though. We tried mainstay and our rats and mice did worse on that then super c. they got all greasy and not as big.

[BoAddict]

lisa where do you buy this dog food? what color is the bag and how big are the bags?

[jadegrasse]

The kitchen scraps I get is mostly greens, grain and root vegtables. I feed a mixture now of good dog food, lab chow and low fat kitchen scraps. No garbage in. The only time I add some fat to the diet is with nursing or expecting mothers and then only in small amounts.

Alain

[northernsnake]

Originally posted by jadegrasse
I talk to a lot of breeders who sell large numbers of frozen rodents to pet stores and the public. Un-officially NONE use lab chow. I breed about 1000 rodents a month on a good month. I used to purchase Mez. Lab chow in large quantities but I no longer feed just lab chow. All my rodents get kitchen scraps from 3 local suppliers, dog food and all pregnant feeding mothers get calcium and fat supplements from a local butcher. I purchase good quality chow (not the cheapest crap I can find) based on the content by the pallet at about $9.00 for 18kg bag delivered after tax. I use approximately 4 bags a week when I am not supplementing heavily and 2 when I am.

The main problem with obesity in snakes is the quantity of food and not the fat content of the food. I only know of one other breeder who does not over feed his snakes and who has great success. This year I got 100% success from all my rat snake (9 batches of eggs from the rat snakes) from laying to hatching with one batch of eggs giving over 100% success when twins were born. Not very many people can say the same.

I think I'm with you Ill try my local butcher and go with old Roy thanks.

[jadegrasse]

A safe bet is always quality and variaty. The largest test done on dog health by the American vet sociaty found that dogs that ate dog food as well as scraps lived longer and healthier lives then those fed just dog food (any type!). They also lived longer and healthier lives then those fed just scraps.

[Lisa]

Bo addict, we get it from super c, a local supermarket. it's a white bag, i was wrong on the price, it's about $10.