Rat food recipe?

Question

Can you please post some veggie recipes ideal for rats? Please don't include corn or sunflower seeds.Thanks a lot! Only experienced owners!

Chestunutbayquarterhorse, thank you for the sites. For the second answerer, I know that sun seeds are good for them, but I just want a good supply of the veggies that rats are supposed to eat. Thank you to everyone for answering. And please note, I am looking for recipes, and not for what rats will eat when they are out of the cage. Thank you! =)

Please include the recipes that pet rats could eat daily. I would rather have something I could feed them like a staple diet. But thanks for the recipes of treats too!

I have seen rats eat grapes and chocolate chips. Nothing has happened to them. In fact, grape is one of their favorite foods!

Answer 1

My rat Oliver will really eat anything except for celery. I usually give both of my rats just food from the petstore though. I know that the only thing there not allowed to have is citrus.
Just click on the link to this website and it has tons of recipes for rats. Good luck!!
http://ratguide.com/care/nutrition/diet.php
If you want actual recipes you can make then go to google.com and type in rat recipes. It should be the first or second website that comes up. I tried to put it on here but it wouldn't work. Be sure you click on the right one because if you don't then some of the links give you instructions on how to cook rats!! Ewwww.

Answer 2

Best thing to do is get a specially prepared rat mix from pet stores - it will have everything you rat needs, and nothing he doesn't. Petsmart does good ones - they also do rat nuggets, which I personally use alongside rat mix, to make up for the nutrients missed when they don't eat all parts of the mix.

Rats will eat LITERALLY anything - I've even seen them drink washing up water! Avoid chocolate and grapes - toxic.

Chalice

Answer 3

I used to feed mine all sorts of fresh produce, lettuce, carrots, apples, etc - we had a pine tree on our property, that's when I discovered pine nuts, they really made the coat so beautiful, and the oils inside almost any nuts are really good for them.
Rats will eat almost anything, your rat will leave what it doesn't like to eat though. I just need to mention that sunflower seeds are the cheapest seeds, and are actually very good for them, please don't exclude them for a reason like they make a noise or leave a mess or something, if you get a pet, prepare for it properly or get a different pet.

Taste and feeding behavior interact, enabling the rat to gravitate toward safe foods, avoid noxious ones, and fulfill dietary needs:

Forming food preferences: newborn rats taste their mother's diet through her milk, and prefer the foods she ate when they grow up
Taste aversions: a kind of associative learning in which rats react negatively to the taste of a food that previously made them ill. A single experience is enough!
Filling dietary needs: A rat deprived of a particular nutrient learns which tastes indicate foods that provide that nutrient, and prefers the taste of those foods until its need is filled
Feeling full: When rats are satiated, they are no longer attracted to tastes.
No feeding it sweets please, they can also get diabetes, and that's very sad to see in a rat.

Answer 4

rat food recipe

Answer 5

They like eating books. And yes I'm talking about the pet species of rats too. A friend's chomped into a big hardback book of mine!

Answer 6

http://eatformula.com/