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Hey all name is Jason and new to the forum. I breed my own asf's for my collection and I feed them Kent rodent diet... My question is it seems like every bag has like 5 or 10 pounds of the food that has been beaten in to a powder, anyone have any tricks as to maybe packing it back into a cube to minimize the waste? Every time I try to just put the powder in a dish they just knock it over and its all wasted as it mixes In with the bedding. Thanks, hope everyone's season is going well.

The fine powder I get at the bottom of my bags gets dusted over dog food provided as a supplement for the ASFs. So they still get the nutrients and I don't have to toy with figuring out how to pack it all back into cubes.
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25 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

Funny, when I went to Kent Feeds website to see what their
rodent food consisted of....no rodent feed is listed. They have mostly equine and swine food. Absolutely nothing listed for any rodent feed of any kind! So, not sure what you have there.

I use Mazuri rodent blocks and a similar thing happens. I keep my feed in a 33 gal plastic trash can and the powder accumulates in the bottom after so many bags have been dumped in. I use a wire screen to sift the powder out of my feed and just toss it. I don't think there is any way to compress it again.
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Susan Sentman
SSNAKES Reptiles
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I know its not listed in kents website I don't understand that either. I actually stumbled on it at family farm and home (i live in Michigan don't know how popular they are.) I found some info on it on some forums and it works quite well. I just end up with a lot of waste from crumbling

think all the people that make cookies for dogs and sell them at flea markets and all...

? try ??

mix it with some flour and water maybe whatever you need to make cookies....

...?...water and an egg, some extra flour?....mix.....add millet even ...make little cakes?....

sounds tasty....Lab chow fritters........

think...pancake...cookie ....little cake....you'll do something...
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........JY

Ohhh Jeff, you have the neatest ideas...LOL. I wish I had the time to follow up with that idea, it's a good one!
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Susan Sentman
SSNAKES Reptiles
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time....it takes 10 minutes to cook ...

try this...all the dust and an egg...mix well...let it set in fridge all night...take out and cook it somehow...either fried patties or balls...or____ the better for the rodent idea...wrap it all in plastic or just stick it in a baggie...then boil it all......

....I ...personally...just throw the dust in the cages...they waste it all I know....

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........JY

Awesome reply, looks like I'll have to Chanel my inner Martha Stewart on this one . Thanks for the advice.

I personally HATE martha stupid stewart....

she should have been thrown off tv a long time ago....

she actually didn't do anything ...her aides did it all....
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........JY

you pretty much nailed it, mix the powder with egg and maybe some milk, then cook it, makes a rock hard pattie. you can mix in whatever else you want to, in case you want to give them some extra flavor lol
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Add some water to it to make it a paste, then spread it about a 1/2 inch thick in a cookie pan. Put it in the oven on like 350 until it gets hard. Take it out and let it cool. Then use a knife and cut it (or cut it before it is fully baked hard). You can get them close to the same size as the blocks. We did this one time because we ended up with about 5lbs of dust left over in a bin.

Thanks to all for the replies, im using my first 10lbs of powder to focus my inner "martha" see what kind of tasty rat patties i can come up with.

I use the Kent diet with the rodents I breed. The crumbles and powder in the bottom of the bag are good to use for the weanling rats. I just scoop it out and pile it in the corner of my grow-out bin.

Beats the hell out of baking! .

Good luck.
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Reid Begnoche
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