I got my Campbell at the end of Feb, and about 2 months later i noticed that he had evcessive urination and was always drinking and eating. I new there was...
Hi, I have several diabetic hamsters and with diet modification they can improve. For this, you can buy a normal bag of hamster food and pick out all of the...
Thanks Kelly, i will try that. One other thing about testing his sugar. How do i do that and where do i purchase what i need to test his sugar? Also how...
One of Ladon's daughters is showing keotones right now (I don't have glucose test strips right now-- they've been hard to find lately). This has me concerned...
I've read in several places that feeding 50% of the diet in fresh vegetables is best for diabetics. My question is, how the heck do you determine what 50% of...
I read (or maybe from this website) that almonds are toxic to hamsters! I had a few die after giving them almonds for lunch. I don't know if that was the...
Thanks for the link! I can tell you that Simon, my Syrian, was very happy to get his first Greenie. He took it into his wooden house. Doesn't chew on it...
You never know when an animal will react adversely to a food and it could have been the greenie but I've been giving mine (20 hamsters) greenies for over a...
WEll i tested my lil boy and sure enough his ketones and suagr is the highest that the chart goes up to. So i added some pedialyte to his h2o and took out all...
Almost all ( 10 ) hameys have high ketones. The boys are worse then the girls by far. I have changed there diet, feed more protean and add pydalight to the...
I have a few little ones that are almost skin and bones but there buddys with them have no problems with weight.... Ketones are a little up with no Glucos...
Hi Equus, ... What was the level on the ketones? ... B/c blood sugar can be lowered too far, I wouldn't add fenugreek to the seed mix for fear of an overdose...
... Hi Kasandra, I'm having trouble with high ketones, too, and just looked back through my notes for more things to try from messages #241, 381, 520, 716. The...
OK, I got the lab blocks! Now how do I get them to eat them?? I even tried breaking them up, but they are still boycotting! [Non-text portions of this...
... tried breaking them up, but they are still boycotting! People have told me that, but I've never had that problem. I guess it's because there is no choice...
I probably overdo it. My little diabetic, Betsy, the mother, who is over a year old, has in her cage a bottle of fenugreek tea, and a bottle of 1/2 water...
Wow! Don't tell my boys how good Betsy has it or they'll be packing their bags to move to your house. Is milk good for the hams? The way my boys love cottage...
Now you've got me worried...I finally found a means to order the RMH 2000 (ordered it through a distributor in another town) and I should get it Friday. A...
... (ordered it through a distributor in another town) and I should get it Friday. A 50lb bag (smallest I could order) plus the shipping to send it.... I will...
... My little diabetic, Betsy, the mother, who is over a year old, has in her cage a bottle of fenugreek tea, and a bottle of 1/2 water and 1/2 pedialite...
... This food has not specifically been tested for its impact on ... Good point. My pair of males, who test high for ketones off and on but have never shown...
Do you crush up the lab blocks? I notice one of mine picked up the little cube and tasted it and dropped it and went away. Is there any chance they will eat...
... like they are??? I have only crushed them when I had an older hamster who had trouble eating -- basically for teeth problems. I will tell you that one of...
Betsy, my diabetic, likes to sit in her sand box and shell all her millet seeds, so I am letting her have plenty of that. But I am cutting back on the other...
My experience has been somewhat similar w/respect to introducing the blocks to my little squirts. My first pair of boys (who were maybe 4 months old when i...
... Don't bother with Mazuri. It's the cheap, pet quality food by PMI. They made it for the pet store market while they have PMI for their lab market. I...
I was able to get a small batch of Harland Teklad. I gave them to the dwarfs sparingly, in lieu of dog biscuits, since they listed ground corn in the...
HELP!!! Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to help simplify &/or speed up the (diabetes) testing process? i have 7 dwarf dinkies in all, & i've found...
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