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Feeding rats hamster food?

  • I normally feed my rats a seed mix designed specifically for rats and mice and also lab blocks and treats and fruits and veggies of course. I just ran out of the seed mix and my car is messed up so I won't be able to buy more for a few days. I do have a hamster though and his food is just bulk seed mix (the canister at the pet store says premium hamster and gerbil mix). Can I give the hamster mix to my rats, along with their other food until I can make it up to the pet store? Is it the same thing? Will it hurt them or make them sick?

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    Just feed them lab blocks and Fresh food until you can buy more seed mix. Hamster food doesnt contain all the nutrients a rat needs, but it will be fine since it's almost basicly the same thing. To be safe, you may want to just feed them the seeds from the hamster food.

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it will be ok for a couple days. but it does not have all their nutrition i sometimes use pieces as treats for my mice they love it and are perfectly healthy.

LAURIE G

Ok, first of all, they do not need ANY seed mix. Seed mixes have too much fat, and the dried corn in it is harmful. Also, it has alfalfa in it which is hard to/indigestible for rats. The ONLY food I would get for my rats at a petstore is Mazuri, which you can get at petsmart, anything Kaytee is CRAP.

Johnny

Mazuri rat blocks is the only thing I'd feed to my rats. Rats aren't strict herbivores. They're like us, and can't be sustained on just seeds, at least not in any healthy way. The 'rat food' at most pet stores is horribly unhealthy, and sometimes contain ingredients detrimental to their health. Here's a link to some information about rat dietary needs. http://www.ratfanclub.org/diet.html

linacrow

If you have lab blocks (along with fruit/veggies) that's all your rat will need. High quality lab blocks can be a full diet on there own. Although it is best to give your rats fruit and veggies too. You can give your rat hammie seed mix but they don't really need it.

rat lover 32 32

you should chop up little pieces of fruits,veggies, and meat and put it in the rat's bowl for a couple of days intill your car is fixed. good luck:)

Girl

Rats'll eat almost anything in the wild so I don't see why some hamster food should harm it.

Walking Contradiction

yes it is fine for a rat to eat hamster food rat food is allmost the same as hamster food anyway

A.J.

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