Making Your Own Gerbil Food

There are many benefits to building your own diet. You ensure that your gerbils are getting a healthy diet. You also reduce waste by not including things your gerbils simply will not eat. You also customize the diet according to your gerbil's needs.

This is no where near as easy as it sounds. It requires a lot of research and trial and error. Just because you want your gerbil to eat what you offer, doesn’t mean that they will.  Sometimes it easier to start with a base and add things to it. If using your own mix, make sure your gerbils have access to a mineral and salt lick.

Easy Recipe:

2.5 lbs. SunSeed Sunscription Vita Fruit and Veggie for Hookbills
2 cp. Old Fashion Oatmeal
1/4 cp. Lentils
1/4 cp. Split Peas

Moonstone Gerbil Base Diet

Kaytee Wild Bird Seed, Fruit and Nut (15 lbs)
Sunflower Hearts (7 lbs)
Wild finch food (2.5 lbs)
Dried Fruit (raisens, bannana chips, cherries) (12-20 oz)
Cheerios (store brand) (1 box)
Bran Flakes (store brand no raisens)(1 box)
Granola/Cereal (1 box)
Puffed Wheat (1 box)
Split Peas (1 lbs)
Barley (1 lbs)
Oatmeal (2 large tubs)
Nuts (ie pecan, walnut, pine nut)(12-16 oz)
Pumpkin Seeds (1 lbs)
*all cereals must have less than 3g sugar.

This is what i use, all mixed up it takes two 5gallon buckets to hold and store. You may need to scale down. I only make food 1 month at a time to prevent it from getting stale. Occassionally i do add Guniea Pig Pellets, Flax seed, pine nuts, Harrisson's high Potency Coarse Diet for parrots.