Rat Food Mix

Please note that my rat mix changes often so the pictures are for illustrated purposes and the actual product will not always look the same.

This is the Aurora Rattery rat mix made following the principles of the Shaunamite diet that is widely used across the fancy.  Each batch I make will vary as I have access to different ingredients at the time of mixing. 

Do I need to supplement this mix?

The short answer is no.  I personally do not give any extra vitamins except for the odd occasions I remember to do so.  I use some ingredients that come with added vitamins already included and I like to offer my rats kale twice a week for all the good stuff.  It will not do any harm should you wish to provide a supplement to your rats as any extra not needed by the body will just be expelled. 

Best Pets Fruit Rabbit  (50% of the total base mix): Composition: Flaked peas, concentrated pellets (oatfeed, grassmeal, extracted sunflowerf, barley, wheatfeed, peas, vegetable fat, dicalcium phosphate, limestone, vitamin & mineral upllment, salt), wheat extrusions, whole maize, dried grass nuts, flaked beans, locust beans, dried banana (3%)

Red Mills conditioning 14 mix (25% of the total base mix): barley flakes (steam cooked), maize flakes (steam cooked), wheat flakes (steam cooked), cane molasses, soya bean meal, soya (bean) hulls, soya oil, soya (bean) extruded, pea flakes (steam cooked), soya bean flakes (steam cooked), wheat, sunflower seed meal, wheatfeed, barley, calcium carbonate, mono-dicalcium phosphate, sodium chloride, magnesium oxide produced from genetically modified soya beans.

Allen & Page Pygmy Goat Mix (25% of the total base mix): Barley, Peas, Nutritionally Improved Straw Pellets, Linseed, Maize, Wheat Feed, Field Beans (Fava), Oats, Alfalfa, Calcium Carbonate, Rapeseed Oil, Grass Meal, Salt, Carrot, Apple, Mint, Yeast, Pineapple, Di-Calcium Phosphate, Fenugreek, Fructo-oligosaccharides, Inulin

Mixed low sugar (<5g per 100g) cereals.  All human grade cereals. (Some or all of the following; mini wheats, wheat bisks, puffed rice, rice crispies, corn flakes, value muesli, multigrain nutty granola low sugar)

plain popcorn 

Dried pasta (egg noodles and shaped, various types)  All human grade pasta.

Sow rolls (also known as pig nuts ) barley, wheatfeed, wheat, hipro soya meal feed, rape meal feed, cane molasses, vegetable oil, calcium carbonate, salt.  Additives; vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, niacin, calcium-D pantothenate, vitamin K.

Red mills copper top up cubes 

Science selective rat pellets; wheat, soya bean meal, barley, oats, soya oil, wheat feed, calcium carbonate, prebiotics (MOS), dried blackcurrent, dried apple, yucca extract.  May contain genetically modified soya and traces of nuts.  Nutritional additives; vitamin A, vitamin D3, Iodine, copper, manganese, zinc, selenium.

Mixed herbs & dried veg - Coconut curls, goji berries, echinacea, nettle, lemon balm, raspberry leaf, flaked peas. Pre mixed bags; vegnibbles, flower mix, herb leaf mix, 5 a day mix, flower leaf mix, dandelion and summer harvest.

50% of total seeds.  A large range of seeds from rat rations that I mix into a batch  - aniseed, Niger, buckwheat, chia, Dari red, hemp, linseed, Carob, maize, pumpkin, rapeseed, safflower, sunflower, coriander, quinoa, rape seed, Walter harrison budgie seed but sometimes others too.

Other 50% seeds: country wide trapping and conditioning mix; aniseed oil, buckwheat, blened marine oil, dari red, dari white, groats, hempseed, layers pellets, mung beans, paddy rice, rapeseed black, safflower, screened linseed, wheat pigeon 

Lifestage puppy salmon kibble; salmon and white fish (55%), freshly prepared salmon (30%),  white fish meal (16%), salmon meal (4%), salmon stock (4%), salmon oil (1%), sweet potato (15%), potato, peas (12%), rapeseed oil, beet pulp (2%), linseed (0.5%), minerals, asparagus (0.2%), yeast hydroslate (0.3%), fructooligosaccharides (0.03%), glucosamine (0.01%), methylsulfonylmethane (0.01%), chondroitin sulphate (0.01%).  Additives; Vitamin A, taurine, vitamin E, Zinc (zinc oxide), iron (iron (II) sulphate monohydrate), manganese (manganous sulphate monohydrate), copper (copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate), iodine (calcium iodate anhydrous), selenium (sodium selenite)