[Gary26Uk]

Yeah I guess your right , had a quick google and it confirms what Twitch says.So sorry for providing mis-information.You would think you could trust species specific books but obviously not.

 

[CaptainFlow]

Yeah I guess your right , had a quick google and it confirms what Twitch says.So sorry for providing mis-information.You would think you could trust species specific books but obviously not.

Most of the time definitely not! I just looked through my old rat book that I bought when I first got rats about 14 years ago, and a lot of the information is just not right! They actually suggest aquariums (though I don't know how prevalent powder coating was at the time, since all they talked about was galvanized zinc for wire cages), say that pine and cedar are okay, and suggest getting food out of the bulk bin without a warning about corn and the like. There's also a chapter on breeding, which is a little scary to me now.

 

[JulesMichy]

Just gave my rats some chicken leg bones from the rotisserie chicken I had for dinner. I always monitor this very closely, because they will fight over the bones even though I give them all their own individual one. After about ten minutes, or however long it takes for the first rat to grow bored with their bone, I take them all away and collect any splinters. Reason being that I discovered just how dry, hard and sharp the fragments become if left out to dry.

Don't want any accidents, and it's not like they need the extra protein, so they get taken and thrown away.