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General Outline of Nutritional Content of Feeder Animals

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I posted this on the cornsnakes.com forum and thought I would also share it with you guys and gals here...This is a general outline of what the most common feeder rodents contain as far a vitamin/mineral content...


Crude Protein % Crude Fat % Energy Content

55.9 23.6 5.25 For an adult mouse
44.2 30.1 6.65 For a fuzzy mouse
64.2 17.0 4.87 For a pink mouse

61.8 32.6 6.37 For an adult rat
56.1 27.5 5.55 For a fuzzy rat
57.9 23.7 5.30 For a pink rat


64.9 22.4 5.80 For a day old chick

67.4 N/A N/A For an anole

Mineral Contents

Calcium
Day old chick 1.69%
Pink mouse 1.17%
Fuzzy mouse 1.47%
Adult mouse 2.98%
Pink rat 1.85%
Fuzzy rat 2.07%
Adult rat 2.62%
Anole 5.54%

Phosphorus
Day old chick 1.22%
Pink mouse N/A
Fuzzy mouse N/A
Adult mouse 1.72%
Pink rat N/A
Fuzzy rat N/A
Adult rat 1.48%
Anole 2.88%

Magnesium
Day old chick .05%
Pink Mouse .11%
Fuzzy mouse .09%
Adult mouse .16%
Pink rat .14%
Fuzzy rat .12%
Adult rat .08%
Anole .15%


Sodium
Day old chick .71%
Pink mouse N/A
Fuzzy mouse N/A
Adult mouse N/A
Pink rat N/A
Fuzzy rat N/A
Adult rat N/A
Anole .33%

Potassium
Day old chick .80%
Pink mouse N/A
Fuzzy mouse N/A
Adult mouse N/A
Pink rat N/A
Fuzzy rat N/A
Adult rat N/A
Anole .73%

Copper
Day old chick 5.2mg
Pink mouse 19.2mg
Fuzzy mouse 13.4mg
Adult mouse 6.7mg
Pink rat 60.6mg
Fuzzy rat 11.3mg
Adult rat 6.3mg
Anole 5.0mg

Iron
Day old chick 119.5mg
Pink mouse 181.3mg
Fuzzy mouse 153.6mg
Adult mouse 137.6mg
Pink rat 275.8mg
Fuzzy rat 133.2mg
Adult rat 148.0mg
Anole 127.8mg

Zinc
Day old chick 97.4mg
Pink mouse 82.5mg
Fuzzy mouse 75.4mg
Adult mouse 67.5mg
Pink rat 113.6mg
Fuzzy rat 81.9mg
Adult rat 62.1mg
Anole 142.5mg

Manganese
Day old chick 3.9mg
Pink mouse .2mg
Fuzzy mouse 13.1mg
Adult mouse 7.7mg
Pink rat 6.2mg
Fuzzy rat 2.6mg
Adult rat 11.0mg

All of the above are milligrams are per kilogram of weight…

Vitamin Contents


Vitamin A
Day old chick 35,600iu/kg
Pink mouse 35,533iu/kg
Fuzzy mouse 30,888iu/kg
Adult mouse 578,272iu/kg
Pink rat 21,333iu/kg
Fuzzy rat N/A
Adult rat 151,389iu/kg
Anole 4,880iu/kg

Vitamin E
Day old chick 51.3iu/kg
Pink mouse 52.7iu/kg
Fuzzy mouse 173.9iu/kg
Adult mouse 100.4iu/kg
Pink rat 470.4iu/kg
Fuzzy rat N/A
Adult rat 139.2iu/kg
Anole 44.8iu/kg

All of this information can be found here


HTH,
 
That's interesting, someone was just asking me about nutritional questions on mice. Now I have something to have them check out. Thanks for the info.
 
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