Question about Tums for Greys

[Rianna]

I picked up a bottle of assorted fruit Tums Ultra 1000 strength today and was wondering if I could/should give them to Hope. If they're safe for her, how many per day or per week should she get?

Active ingredient (per tablet)
Calcium carbonate USP 1,000mg

Under the supplement facts it says the Calcium is 800mg for 2 tablets.
Sodium 10mg (less than 1% for daily value)

Any advice will be greatly appreciated:)

[CritterMom]

Can you tell us her diet? If this little one is eating properly she needs ZERO Tums...

I swear I am gonna (when I have time:shakehead) write a sticky for TSB about the dangers of TOO MUCH calcium. Every time we get a couple of MBD cases on here I can just feel everybody's compulsion to start boosting the amount of calcium they give - *just to be safe.* I have done it myself! It is like you can't help yourself...I swear, Tums are a Gateway Drug (and then you move to the Big Guns - Henry's Vitamin Powder, and then pretty soon you are mainlining whey isolate and it's all over)!!

So what does - specifically, is she eating blocks, if so, what brand and how many a day?

[Rianna]

I sent you a pm:)

[UDoWhat]

Can you tell us her diet? If this little one is eating properly she needs ZERO Tums...

I swear I am gonna (when I have time:shakehead) write a sticky for TSB about the dangers of TOO MUCH calcium. Every time we get a couple of MBD cases on here I can just feel everybody's compulsion to start boosting the amount of calcium they give - *just to be safe.* I have done it myself! It is like you can't help yourself...I swear, Tums are a Gateway Drug (and then you move to the Big Guns - Henry's Vitamin Powder, and then pretty soon you are mainlining whey isolate and it's all over)!!

So what does - specifically, is she eating blocks, if so, what brand and how many a day?

:rotfl :rotfl :rotfl :rotfl :rotfl Been there... Done that!!!! :rotfl :rotfl

[Pierre]

Can you tell us her diet? If this little one is eating properly she needs ZERO Tums...

I swear I am gonna (when I have time:shakehead) write a sticky for TSB about the dangers of TOO MUCH calcium. Every time we get a couple of MBD cases on here I can just feel everybody's compulsion to start boosting the amount of calcium they give - *just to be safe.* I have done it myself! It is like you can't help yourself...I swear, Tums are a Gateway Drug (and then you move to the Big Guns - Henry's Vitamin Powder, and then pretty soon you are mainlining whey isolate and it's all over)!!

So what does - specifically, is she eating blocks, if so, what brand and how many a day?

:jump

:goodpost

[Rhapsody]

This thread got me to thinking....... It prob wouldnt be a bad ideal for me to give Marven (my picky eater / special needs / NR) a TUMS every now and then would it?
any suggestions on amount? - he doesnt eat his hhb or any rodent block well and he is next in line to have his front teeth pulled -

[Roxi's mom]

That's a good question for me too. My Roxi doesn't eat the squirrel blocks that I made or the one's I ordered from Henry's. She is 3-1/2 years old and fat and sassy, which is another problem (being fat). I give her spinach leaves or zuccini or yellow squash, a mushroom, or half a mushroom if too big, a strawberry which she eats the green part and down the middle of the strawberry and leaves the rest, and to give her something to do I give her up to 6 nuts a day which she usually hides. It sometimes takes her awhile to hide them. I have always had a deer antler in her cage for her calcium. Is this enough. I mean she is an older girl now and seems fine, other than being bored all the time.

[Pierre]

That's a good question for me too. My Roxi doesn't eat the squirrel blocks that I made or the one's I ordered from Henry's. She is 3-1/2 years old and fat and sassy, which is another problem (being fat). I give her spinach leaves or zuccini or yellow squash, a mushroom, or half a mushroom if too big, a strawberry which she eats the green part and down the middle of the strawberry and leaves the rest, and to give her something to do I give her up to 6 nuts a day which she usually hides. It sometimes takes her awhile to hide them. I have always had a deer antler in her cage for her calcium. Is this enough. I mean she is an older girl now and seems fine, other than being bored all the time.

Have you tried Boo Balls? They're made with rat block and formula powder. Most squirrels love them and they're easy to make. Lots of people feed these to their squirrels.

Momma 2 Boo created them, this is taken from her post:
http://www.thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28096&highlight=balls


"Here is the recipe and instructions for my Boo Balls:

There have been a couple of changes. I used to use Kaytee and HT. I now only use Harlan Teklad. I also alternate the type of nuts I use to keep my squirrels from becoming bored. I use almonds, pecans, or sometimes I mix a bit of waltnuts in with one of the others.

Ingredients:

50 grams rodent block (crushed to a fine powder) I use Harlan Teklad 2018.

50 grams powdered Fox Valley squirrel formula. I use 32/40.

50 grams crushed nuts. I NEVER use peanuts.

3 capsules of Multidolphilus.

20 grams "organic" coconut oil (melted)

1 jar (approximately 100 grams) of Earth's Best Organic baby food fruit (I use apples and plums)

Directions for mixing:

Mix dry ingredients together well (including the multidolphilus powder from inside the capsules).

Mix organic baby food fruit in to your dry ingredients until well blended. It will seem very wet.

Mix coconut oil into the mixture until well blended.

Put in the refrigerator for 5 hours (Overnight is even better). This lets it set up. It softens/moistens the rodent block and dissolves the FV.

Once you are ready to serve it take out about a 1/2 tsp (5 grams) of the mixture and roll is in your hands but not so much that it will melt the coconut oil. Give it to your squirrel.

I feed two of these a day. One in the morning and one in the evening. Between these two feeding I give them their assorted fresh vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, avocado, field greens, red bell pepper, cooked sweet potato, cucumber, zucchini, grape tomatoes, occasionally a piece of a baby carrot ... the list of veggies can go on and on and on."
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Momma to Boo: July 2004 ~ April 3, 2010
Creator of Boo Balls

[Rhapsody]

Have you tried Boo Balls? They're made with rat block and formula powder.
Most squirrels love them and they're easy to make. Lots of people feed these to their squirrels.Life is Busy Busy Busy, therefore, I am more of a buy and feed type of person..... so My reply would be 'No" I have Not tried the Boo Balls.
but I would be willing to buy IF some one made and sold them like hhb are done (and) IF they are soft enough for Marven to eat
- as he will be with out his front teeth here soon. :D :thumbsup

[momma2boo]

Life is Busy Busy Busy, therefore, I am more of a buy and feed type of person..... so My reply would be 'No" I have Not tried the Boo Balls.
but I would be willing to buy IF some one made and sold them like hhb are done (and) IF they are soft enough for Marven to eat
- as he will be with out his front teeth here soon. :D :thumbsup

If you can grind and mix you can make this recipe. I don't sell them but if you were to want me to send you some ground ingredients you could add the babyfood and try it. It's kind of hard to send 10 -20 grams of the coconut oil.

Where do you live? If you live close enough to any of us who make them I am certain they would be willing to let you try it.

Honestly, they are so easy to make that even my husband helps make them when I am out and too busy to do it. :D

[Rhapsody]

Where do you live?
Honestly, they are so easy to make that even my husband helps make them when I am out and too busy to do it. :DI am in good old Lakeland "Central Florida" and I agree that I could make them My SELF --but honestly I live a very busy life
and then you add 10 extra wild life animals at any given time and a precious 3 yr old granddaughter into the mix
(along with my darn RA and its energy draining disorder) and life gets even busier - :thinking :bowdown :bowdown :thinking