Pua on the wall

[wolflady]

Oh my goodness! What a cute pet Pua is! This has been an interesting thread to read through, and she is definitely not something you see everyday! LOL

What do you feed her?

**hugs**

[TamanduaGirl]

The diet is complicated though she does have a simple one for which gets mixed with the other. I'll just copy and paste from my carehseet. The diet tends to keep evolving as I learn more and as we see how she does with it.

simple easy diet
2 cups powdered dry cat food
1/2 cup flax seed meal
1/2 cup red beans powdered
1/4 cup dehydrated frozen spinach

Grind all in coffee grinder remove anything that doesn't powder small.
Mix with water when ready to serve.

The simple diet is convenient to have and should be nutritionally complete based on the analysis of all ingredients compared to wild diet and K content of leafeater. But mine not only likes the fresh frozen diet better it gives her much nicer stools and she seems all around healthier when on it or a mix of the two.

Gourmet diet
1 pounds bananas (feed without skin)
1 pound tomatoes
1 pound fruit, oranges, kiwi, berries any acidic fruit is preferred
2 boiled eggs
2 pounds feeder insects such as meal worms, crickets and silk worms, ect. (got 5,000 meal worms and 250 wax worms for about $20 and is about 2 pounds)
1 pound chicken or turkey breast boiled
1 pound boiled liver
1 pound fresh cooked shrimp (pulverized equivalent of 4oz dried shrimp)
1/4 cup bone meal powder
1 cup flax seed meal
1 cup dried red beans ground to powder
2 pkgs frozen spinach(10oz or about 4 & 1/2 cups)
7-15 teaspoons blue green algae, cell tech animal algae (based on size of
animal)

Blend all in food precessor with fish/shrimp/chicken water then run through a berry strainer (metal cone with holes and pestle to push liquid through). Reblend the remainder then restrain at least twice should only be a couple cups of waist. The waist should be small enough it could be eaten but mine was always leaving the small bits at the bottom so strain it now so all will be lapped up and it's safer if using chicken or liver in case of sinew.

[TamanduaGirl]

It depends on the state if you need a liscense or permit. They don't consider them a threat to the envornment or people in mine so I don't she just needed a permit to get into the state. I have my USDA now thjough so I can start doing educational shows with her at schools and things like that.

[wolflady]

Wow! That is certainly some diet! Thanks for sharing all of this information about your unique girl! I'm sure kids will really like her when you start doing the educational programs

**hugs**

[TamanduaGirl]

thanks.

I beleive in feeding a diet that is as little processed as possible. I feel feeding nothing but kibble is like feeding nothing but cerial to a person. But mimicking termites and ants isn't easy. I compaired a study done on the nutritional stomach contents of wild tamanduas and compaired it to what I was mixing up and with spinach to match the amount of K most tams get on kibble.

[lvpets2002]

WoW you just wore me out with that diet.. And I thought taken care of 9 cats & 2 dogs was busy .. You do know & love your baby.. Just adorable..

[TamanduaGirl]

Ha I was teased about making up a witches brew when I made it before. It is a lot of work. Especialy the straining process, makes my arms tired, but I could use the work out