![]() ![]() Mazuri recommends a diet of 30% biscuits, 70% other foods by actual weight (not dry weight). So, what do we do?įortunately for us, Mazuri recently published a shortcut on their website that can be calculated easily with a kitchen scale. There are numerous complicated formulas for doing this, but most of us in private ownership do not have access to this information. This means that you must calculate what the food weighs minus the moisture, or water content, in the food. To make this even more difficult, foods are measured on a dry weight basis. BUT, animal diets are always measured by weight, not by volume. Mazuri, a leading manufacturer of commercial primate diets, recommends that 50% of the primate diet be made up of biscuits and the other 50% made up of everything else that our monkey eats such as vegetables, fruits, browse, nuts, proteins, etc. How many biscuits should you feed? What kind of vegetables? Are they getting enough fiber? What IS fiber?! Am I feeding too much? Am I feeding enough? It’s no wonder that most of the questions we primate owners have about caring for our monkeys are related to diet. Then of course I always give them meal or wax worms every day as well.” My Monkey Plate – A visual Aid for Feeding Your Primateįeeding a nonhuman primate can be complicated. My babies eat pretty good! I fix 2 plates for them all 3 to share everyday but sometimes switch the veggies & add shrimp or a fish of some kind. ![]() Here is what she said on what’s in their food bowl: “Fresh spinach with eggs & olive oil, black olives, fresh mushrooms, chicken sticks, cooked yellow squash, fresh green beans, fresh sweet potatoes, pasta with cooked veggies, fruit gumivore fare (with marmoset diet, yogurt & fresh cranberries all put into food processer). Note on Marmoset Diet Picture: Terrie explained to me that she spends a lot of time preparing meals for her marmosets. We also have a list of Primate Recipes at your disposal. The use of several small feeding bowls on different places can be a good idea too.The nice thing about this bucket is that they can only take one piece at the time and there is also something like a surprise effect for them. Use a plastic bucket with a hole in it (size of your monkeys hand) and put some fruits or vegetables in it.Your monkey will have to wait till a mealworm crawls out before he can eat it. Hang up a plastic pipe horizontally with small holes in it and put some bedding and mealworms inside it.Put their favorite food in a box which they have to open before being able to access it.Here are a few ideas to keep your monkey busy with eating : If you just give all their food in a bowl, they will be done eating in minutes so perhaps it isn’t a bad idea to make your monkey search and work for his food. In captivity it is also very important that your monkey is busy all the time to avoid boredom. In the wild primates have to hunt and search for food so they get a lot of exercise and it keeps them busy. Drill some holes into wood (like branches or bamboo) and fill them with this prepared gum. After two to three hours it’s ready for distribution. Mix one part of powder with two parts of water (or fruit juice). It is known that also other species like squirrels or tamarins like arabic gum. Besides the fact that “it will keep them busy for a while”, it’s also a source of energy, calcium and other minerals. In the wild they spend 1/3 of their time doing this. With their sharp teeth they gnaw holes in trees to get the gum. Marmosets and bushbabies are known as gum-feeders. Insects like mealworms and grasshoppers.Cooked vegetables like peas, cauliflower, green beans, ….Fresh vegetables like carrots, cucumber, fennel, onions, cauliflower, tomato, ….Fresh fruit like mango, apple, papaya, grapes, banana, ….Make sure that your fresh vegetables and fresh fruits is washed before feeding. Never feed your monkey raw meat, baby mice’s or cockroaches (toxoplasmonia, protozoa, helminthes,worms …). When they don’t have enough direct sunlight extra vitamins are required (or the use of Vitalights) to prevent them from getting metabolic bone disease such as crickets. Especially new world primates (like marmosets and tamarins) need extra vit D3 if they are kept indoors (do not overdose). Vitamins are very important for primates. For monkeys like spiders, capuchins, squirrels, marmosets and tamarins you should hang up your bowl or your feeding platform.ĭepending on the size of your monkey you will have to cut up the food in bigger or smaller pieces.
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