Specialty Feeds: Small Marsupial Omnivore Pellets

Diet: Small Marsupial Omnivore Pellets

This diet is designed as a supplementary feed for small omnivorous marsupials.

Detailed nutritional requirements of marsupials is not well characterized. This diet was designed using the best information we could obtain from the literature to satisfy the nutritional requirements of a mixed colony of small omnivorous marsupials. The colony contained Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), Bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) and Boodies (Burrowing Bettong) (Bettongia leseur).
Feedback from animal carers have indicated that the diet is palatable to most of the individuals of these species.
From several studies performed on the gut and faecal contents of wild small omnivorous marsupials it would appear that their natural diet was relatively highly digestible but had a fairly high fibre content. The raw material selection was carefully chosen in an attempt to mimic these nutritional parameters
The diet is manufactured as an 4 mm diameter cube 5 - 12 mm long.
Packaging is in 20 Kg woven polyethylene bags.