Gerbil food recipes - please add your own too :)

[Markpd]

Saw a recipe thread a few months back, and thought it and others ought to be saved for future viewing/easy access (linked below).

But rather than fill this section with loads of stickies, I thought we could have this sticky thread as a repository for them.

So either post your gerbil food recipes here, or a link to them (I'll add any posted links to this post).

Gerbil treat recipe by sparkbubble

[LilyandDaisy]

Main food mix recipe. I have been using this basic recipe (with very minor variations) for a few years now. It has been used for non-breeding adult gerbils and pups from about 5 weeks old upwards and they have all grown well.

Whole barley - 50g
White millet - 50g
Whole oats or hulled (not rolled) oats - 50g
Sorghum (white or red) - 50g
Whole wheat - 50g
Buckwheat - 50g
Grass seeds (any) - 50g
Emerald Green alfalfa pellets - 25g
Dill seeds - 30g
Flaxseed (brown or golden) - 20g
Hemp seeds* - 20g
Milk thistle seeds - 10g
Niger seed - 20g
Pumpkin seeds* - 20g
Rapeseed (black or red) - 30g
Sesame seeds - 70g
Safflower or sunflower seeds, hulled - 25g
Black soldier fly larvae (calci worms), dried - 30g
Dried carrot - 12.5g
Dried peas - 12.5g

*I typically buy these seeds hulled/out of their shells. If I buy them unhulled, I tend to add an extra few grams to account for the shells. My measuring is not terribly precise, and I usually end up weighing out a few grams more than the recipe says anyway.

Estimated nutritional composition:
16.6% protein
18.2% fat
10.4% fibre