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    Until I get a kitchen scale tomorrow- can anyone please help with a guesstimate of how much she should be drinking with each feeding. She currently drinks about 8-10 cc's/feeding and eating solids.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AJR View Post
    Until I get a kitchen scale tomorrow- can anyone please help with a guesstimate of how much she should be drinking with each feeding. She currently drinks about 8-10 cc's/feeding and eating solids.
    Just from that picture I suspect you are over feeding and not keeping within the 5-7% she should be fed.
    How do her stools appear?
    What are the "solids" you are feeding her?
    Her first solid food should be a good quality rodent block and she should be eating them and
    eating them well before any other solid foods are introduced.
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    Good to know. Thank you.
    Stools are solid and a medium yellow color. She is eating little apple bits, and a little red cabbage and some ice burg lettuce (she is given these while I am away and she is pretty shy still, so will only eat these when she feels "safe". She is new to our home as of Sunday.) I will get her some rodent blocks.
    What would be an appropriate feeding for her for her puppy milk?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AJR View Post
    Good to know. Thank you.
    Stools are solid and a medium yellow color. She is eating little apple bits, and a little red cabbage and some ice burg lettuce (she is given these while I am away and she is pretty shy still, so will only eat these when she feels "safe". She is new to our home as of Sunday.) I will get her some rodent blocks.
    What would be an appropriate feeding for her for her puppy milk?
    5-7% of her body weight, you need to get that scale and weigh her.
    Just a guess but I would be feeding her between 7-8cc's but weighing
    her might even prove that to be too much.
    Starting her out on "other" solids outside rodent block just makes it
    harder to get them to take to the rodent block which can be a major
    problem once she weans herself off of formula. Formula then rodent
    block is your best assurance against MBD.
    I'm attaching a link to the pyramid for the healthy diet, please study it
    to know you will be feeding her the right foods in the future.


    https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/...-Pet-Squirrels
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