- Beardie name(s)
- Devlyn
While I still have an enormous amount of Quaker oats I keep in their bin at all times, and the roaches get some vegetable scraps and/or fruit every day I still want to offer them nutritional feed.
I had bought InsectFuel by Arcadia to add to the Quaker oats. Since it is alfalfa based and alfalfa is a staple healthy green for beardies. Alfalfa is hard to find in non-hay form for my beardie. Then I thought of rabbit pellets made from alfalfa.
I'm sure it varies by brands, but the better brands I looked up had a general nutritional value of: Crude Protein (min) 6.0%, Crude Fat (min) 2.0%, Crude Fiber (max) 32.0%, Moisture (max) 12.0%, Calcium (min) 0.25%, Calcium (max) 0.75%. I was also impressed that rabbit pellets have a generally okay Ca ratio, found a good breakdown of many brands here http://www.therabbithouse.com/diet/rabbit-food-comparison.asp
Whereas the InsectFuel alfalfa has nutritional values of: Crude Protein (16%), Crude Fats & Oils (4%), Crude Fibers (19%), Moisture (<8%). There are other micronutrients from ingredients besides the alfalfa that makes the InsectFuel still an amazing choice to add to roach food that rabbit pellets wouldn't have.
I haven't done anything yet! Still researching. I would avoid any brands that have soybeans or corn as ingredients, those seems like questionable choices for the purpose of a roach colony that will feed a bearded dragon. Maybe rabbit pellets and oats and InsectFuel together would be a big win for roaches. My one unhappy point with the Quaker oats are how they are grown...if I can do anything good for my beardie and roaches and avoid the evils of a major corporation I would like to try that.
I had bought InsectFuel by Arcadia to add to the Quaker oats. Since it is alfalfa based and alfalfa is a staple healthy green for beardies. Alfalfa is hard to find in non-hay form for my beardie. Then I thought of rabbit pellets made from alfalfa.
I'm sure it varies by brands, but the better brands I looked up had a general nutritional value of: Crude Protein (min) 6.0%, Crude Fat (min) 2.0%, Crude Fiber (max) 32.0%, Moisture (max) 12.0%, Calcium (min) 0.25%, Calcium (max) 0.75%. I was also impressed that rabbit pellets have a generally okay Ca ratio, found a good breakdown of many brands here http://www.therabbithouse.com/diet/rabbit-food-comparison.asp
Whereas the InsectFuel alfalfa has nutritional values of: Crude Protein (16%), Crude Fats & Oils (4%), Crude Fibers (19%), Moisture (<8%). There are other micronutrients from ingredients besides the alfalfa that makes the InsectFuel still an amazing choice to add to roach food that rabbit pellets wouldn't have.
I haven't done anything yet! Still researching. I would avoid any brands that have soybeans or corn as ingredients, those seems like questionable choices for the purpose of a roach colony that will feed a bearded dragon. Maybe rabbit pellets and oats and InsectFuel together would be a big win for roaches. My one unhappy point with the Quaker oats are how they are grown...if I can do anything good for my beardie and roaches and avoid the evils of a major corporation I would like to try that.