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Ok & Not Ok Foods.
Topic Started: Jan 7 2012, 11:33 PM (227 Views)
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Ok Foods For Gerbils :
Fruits (In Small Amounts!):
Apple (no seeds)
Berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
Pomegranates
Grapes
Plum
Peaches
Tomato
Orange (one small sac of juice, if your gerbils will even touch it)
Currants

Vegetables & Plants (In Small Amounts!):
Broccoli
Carrots
Peas
Cauliflower leaves and stalks
Cucumber
Bell peppers
Lettuce - small amounts occasionally - in excess it can cause liver problems
Brussels sprouts
Spinach
Green beans
Celery
Parsley - a good tonic
Chickweed

Starches (In Small Amounts!):
Biscuits
Cooked potatoes
Bread (fresh or stale)
Breakfast Cereals (low fat, no sugar added varieties)
Toast
Corn
Pretzels –small amounts of low-sodium (salt) variety
Whole (rolled) oats
Kashi cereal

Proteins (In Small Amounts!):
Cheese (small amounts occasionally as fattening)
Dog Biscuits
Egg (scrambled or boiled)
Mealworms
Alfalfa
Kashi cereal
Crickets
Waxworms
Sprouted beans/seeds, like aduki, alfalfa, chickpea, or mung bean sprouts (washed thoroughly, and avoid sprouted kidney beans)

Sweet Treats (In VERY Small Amounts!):
Raisins (unsulphured)
Dried apricots (unsulphured)
Dried berries (unsulphured)
Other dried fruits (unsulphured)
Sultanas

Fattening Treats (In VERY Small Amounts!):
(Choose nuts that aren't salted, roasted, or have skins.)
Peanuts
Sunflower Seeds
Walnuts (slightly crack the shells and make the gerbils work to get at the meat!)
Watermelon seeds
Pistachio nuts
Almonds
Cashews
Hazelnut
Brazil nutsPine nuts

Not Ok Foods

Kidney Beans (raw)
Clover - high in prussic acid (cyanide)
Potato (raw)
Rhubarb
Tomato leaves
Black nightshade
Buttercups
Clematis
Daffodil
Deadly nightshade
Hemlock
Hydrangea
Ivy
Laburnum
Laurel
Oleander
Poinsettia
Rhododendron
Yew
Yucca
Dairy products in large amounts (like most mammals—including most humans—gerbils have a hard time digesting lactose)
Chocolate*
Rabbit Mix (containing antibiotic ingredients)
Sweets
Toffee
Avocado - Toxic to their hearts
Garlic
Coltsfoot - can cause cancer and is hepatoxic (toxic to the kidneys of rodents)
Dandelion - can cause cancer and is a diuretic
Yarrow - can cause cancer
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