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Post by firball62 on Jul 11, 2010 10:32:31 GMT -8
I bought Organic salted roasted pumpkin seeds from Kmart and i fed it to my gerbils. they love it but im not sure if i should give them the shell. Any suggestions?
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Post by gerrix on Jul 11, 2010 18:05:00 GMT -8
i havent tried feeding with pumpkin seeds before, but that doesnt sound good.. its salted- good for humans, too tasty for gerbils? and they would probably peel off the shell like they do with sunflower seeds.
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Post by Boz on Jul 18, 2010 9:45:23 GMT -8
I would avoid salted ones. Plain raw pumpkin seeds are better. They peel off the shell just like a sunflower seed. They love them!
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Post by gerbilmama on Jul 18, 2010 11:19:57 GMT -8
I had bought some of these too which were salted. So I soaked them in a bowl to get the salt off. Then I baked them at a low setting to dry them. It took awhile on a low setting, close to an hour, though I just kept checking them. I kept checking to make sure they didn't burn. It it the perfect healthy treat for them. They crack open the shell just like they do in sunny seeds
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Post by ashgate on Sept 17, 2010 5:00:14 GMT -8
Since halloween is around the corner how bought dried seeds straight out of the pumpkins
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Post by lungz on Sept 18, 2010 1:38:15 GMT -8
I also feed mine pumpkin seeds, plain unpeeled ones bought at a supermarket, but I only use them as treats as their food mix contains sunflower seeds and I didn't want to give them too many fatty seedy things, but is this a load of rubbish? Can they have them daily aswell as sunflower seeds?
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Post by doug on Sept 18, 2010 17:10:43 GMT -8
it is a big misunderstanding that these will make a gerbil fat, they are part of a good diet, not all, not none, just balance it.
Doug
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Post by SilverGerbil on Sept 24, 2010 13:21:09 GMT -8
Ashgate, what you want to do, is once you have taken the seeds out of the pumpkin, you need to remove the webbing a bowl of water helps to get this, because you can use the water to seperate the webbing and the seeds.
Then you can either dry them so you can store them for a long time. Which you do on a flat oven tray with a sheet of baking paper on at a low heat Gas 2-4 for half hour or so.
Or you can feed them fresh but they dont store very long.
x
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2010 8:56:03 GMT -8
Can you freeze fresh ones? If so how long will they last then?
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Post by SilverGerbil on Sept 25, 2010 9:56:30 GMT -8
Im sure you can freeze them, but ive never tried. There shouldn't be any reason why you couldnt i wouldnt have thought. Give it a go, only thing i would say is to freeze them in batches, so that you only defrost as much as you need. Because as with most things you can't refreeze things that have been defrosted or previously frozen x
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