Exotic animal nutrition

Question 1

What are avian nutritional needs?

Answer 1

• high metabolic rate and energy needs
• species adaptations for water preservation
• folivore (herbivorous)
• insectavore
• fruit eating
• omnivore
• carnivore (King Fisher - fish eating

Question 2

What is crop burn?

Answer 2

microwave hot spots

Question 3

What do you feed parrots?

Answer 3

• veggies - kale, squash, berries, sweet potatoes
• nuts - human grade - shelled, raw peanuts
• boiled peanut shells - may contain aspergillums
• grains such as quinoa and rice (limit corn)
• sprounted seeds and dandelion greens
• cutterbone - calcium

Question 4

What shouldn’t you feed a parrots?

Answer 4

chocolate
sunflower seeds - can give very little
no avocado and no all seed diets

Question 5

Why are seed additives a problem in captive birds?

Answer 5

• obsesity due to energy density (the amt. of energy per gram of food)
• inverted Ca:P ratio
• missing vitamins and minerals

Question 6

What reptile is a folivore?

Answer 6

iguanas

Question 7

What reptile is a omnivore (eats plants and animals)?

Answer 7

tortoises and turtle

Question 8

What reptile is a carnivore?

Answer 8

all snakes

some eat prey whole, fresh frozen prey is better than live prey (injuries to snake from live prey)

Question 9

What can you feed hamsters?

Answer 9

commercial chow (avoid beans)

Question 10

What can you feed guinea pigs?

Answer 10

grasses and hays (long stem)

Question 11

What can you feed mice and rats?

Answer 11

chows for omnivores

Question 12

What can you feed rabbits?

Answer 12

longs stem hays and pellets

Coprophagay is natural behavior (night feces)

Question 13

African fruit bats and guinea pigs need?

Answer 13

Vit. C - water soluble

Question 14

African Pygmy Hedgehogs are?

Answer 14

• omnivores and insectivores
• need 20- 25% high protein, low fat and chitin
• offer meal worms
• obesity an issue