Happy 3rd Birthday Quinn!

My "little" Quinn is 3 today! He is my oldest ever rat! He doesnt even act three, apart from the HLD. Made him some yummy stuff from the Scuttling Gourmet, going to share it amongst the rats...Hope they like it lol..

More ratty cooking

Veg puree

With added pearl barley

Quinn is being a little iffy with his eating, so I have made him a puree as something nice to tempt him. Plus the others will get it on occasion, there was loads so it went in the freezer. It contains peas, green beans, broccoli, carrot, potato, curly kale, pearl barley and a clove of garlic. It looks vile but it has gone down quite well :D
Looking at other things he can eat for variety, the scuttling gourmet has come in very useful, I dont know how I did without it.

Fun with shredded paper

I did some shredding last weekend and yesterday decided to give it to the rats. I filled an empty easter egg box with the shredded paper and then hid broken up doggy chocolate drops in there for the girls, and a small box for the boys. I thought that this game would last longer than it did, they certainly seemed to have fun. This tells me that as a good owner I should eat more easter eggs so they can have the boxes. I think I can cope with that.

Also the fruit skewer is working well, both times I used it all the veg on it disapeared. Only problem is I cant seem to take it off the top of the cage.

Finished reading The Scuttling Gourmet, It has given me lots of ideas for the tweaks to my mix that I want to make. I have written memos on pieces of paper and put them in the book, so that I can return to the most pertinant bits quickly. I was going to annotate it but I really couldnt bare to use pen on it. Its also inspired me to be really creative with the food they get each day. The girls food today got put in their bucket with shredded paper on top. I see shredded paper being a great help in hiding things due to its density.

They might get cous cous with salmon oil, garlic and seaweed powder to eat tomorrow...sounds very posh haha

My order from rat rations

Been thinking about ordering from this site for a while, and today my order arrived. I got some salmon oil, kelp powder (to go on cous cous with garlic and the salmon oil) ,Hemp seed, a load of millet spray for the rats and the cockatiel and a little metal fruit hanger which is currently hanging in the cage with a wedge of carrot on. Looks like a fun toy for enrichment. I also was suprised with a copy of The Scuttling Gourmet, which I have spent most of the day reading. Lots of information and its helped me have ideas for my mix (and I'm barely halfway through reading it) I can see already that it was worth every penny.

We also got the shopping today so got the rats pumpkin seeds, pearl barley and ryvita. So the new mix I made has allsorts in it, I didnt make a note of everything I used so I must do that next time. I really mixed it into the substrate so they will really have to dig to find everything. At least they wont get bored.