 | Posted by: | emily, suprtrip69@hotmail.com | | Subject: | fruit bites | | When: | 10:00 PM, 10 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 12.75.179.2 |
i recently bought a treat called fruit bites, manufactured by F.M. Brown's Sons Inc. the ingredients are, in order, powered sugar, dextrose, corn syrup solids, modified food starch, dates, glycerine, sunflower oil with added tocopherol, sorbital, water, rive flower, golden raisins, apple powder, natural and artificial flavors, citric acid, colored with red 40 lake and blue two lake, maltic acid, salt, and sulfur dioxide. the analysis is: crude protein(min) .38% crude fiber(max) 1.16% crude fat(min) 3.12% and moistuer(max) 8.50%. I coppied it right from the box. i know its just for a treat. the pellets are soft, and about the size of a small pea. they say that they are forall birds and small animals. i only give my glider about three a day, and i am cutting back. how are these sounding for gliders? mine loves them, but i dont want him to get too attached to them and find out that they are not at all healthy. id appreciate all comments.
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| Posted by: | Barb, blooprints@yahoo.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 10:20 PM, 10 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 63.178.69.92 |
Emily, I personally would not feed this to my gliders. You will be better off feeding your glider fresh, raw foods - without all kinds of additives and preservatives. (That's just my opinion, but I have been successfully raising healthy gliders for almost 5 years now.)
| Posted by: | Dawn, capriceb@aol.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 2:46 PM, 11 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 12.4.177.226 |
I feel the same as Barb -- I steer away from stuff with additives, preservatives, artificial colors/flavors, etc. and try to stick with the natural stuff only. In my opinion, we don't know enough about how well gliders can process this stuff, if their livers can handle it, etc. The only exception I have is that I do use the Mott's "Fruitsations" (applesauce plus cherry or mixed berry) with the BML -- my critters won't eat it otherwise.
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