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CDieter
at Wed Aug 17 09:56:38 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CDieter ]
Just wanted to make a brief post about Mazuri's crocodilian diet.
I had visited Gatorland a few weeks back and was informed that they were using Mazuri crocodilian diet, among other items with their animals. I also visited St.Augustine and found the same. So I bought a couple bags of the diet to experiment on my own animals.
It's to early to tell how it will affect growth but of 9 crocodilians I've tried it on 7 have become pretty fond of it, 1 is a sampler, and 1 will not eat it.
3 animals(Nile crocodiles) will be getting it exclusively as an experiment.
The diet comes in 2 sizes, a small pellet for young animals and a larger pellet for larger animals. I pay $39 for a 50lb bag. Which is expensive but in comparison to the normal fare of steaks, roast, rodents, and chicken it's a bargain.
One negative appears to be that the binder makes the waste a little more 'thick', but this is a minor negative.
All in all from first impressions it seems to be a product worth using in the diet of a captive crocodilian. And for a private keeper makes feeding much easier.
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CDieter
'Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.'
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 Mazuri crocodilian diet - CDieter, Wed Aug 17 09:56:38 2005
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