Formulab Diet 5008 - 50lb

A complete life cycle diet designed by using managed formulations, delivering Constant Nutrition.

This diet is formulated for use in breeding colonies of rats and hamsters and many mouse strains. Formulab Diet 5008 is paired with a selection of the highest quality ingredients to assure minimal inherent biological variations in long-term studies. 

• Managed Formulation delivers Constant Nutrition
• Similar nutrient concentration to 501, with higher energy content 
• Maximizes reproductive performance of rats and hamsters; supports gestation and lactation simultaneously
• High quality animal protein added to create a superior balance of amino acids for optimum performance 
• Formulated to feed rats, hamsters, and many mouse strains
  

Product Size:

• 50lb

Product Form:

• Oval pellets - 3/8" x 5/8" x 1"

Ingredients

Ground Corn, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Ground Wheat, Fish Meal, Wheat Middlings, Porcine Animal Fat Preserved with BHA and Citric Acid, Cane Molasses, Porcine Meat and Bone Meal, Ground Oats, Wheat Germ, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Dried Whey, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (Vitamin K), Choline Chloride, Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), Vitamin A Acetate, DL-Methionine, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Carbonate, Nicotinic Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Cobalt Carbonate.

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Instructions

• Rats- All rats will eat varying amounts of feed depending on their genetic origin. Larger strains will eat up to 30 grams per day. Smaller strains will eat up to 15 grams per day. Feeders in rat cages should be designed to hold two to three days supply of feed at one time.
• Mice-Adult mice will eat up to 5 grams of pelleted ration daily. Some of the larger strains may eat as much as 8 grams per day per animal. Feed should be available on a free choice basis in wire feeders above the floor of the cage.
• Hamsters-Adults will eat up to 14 grams per day.