Essentials Adult Rat Food

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Essentials Adult Rat is made with premium, purposeful ingredients to support your pet’s healthy, active lifestyle. We start with balanced sources of protein, fat, and carbohydrates for energy and add antioxidants and prebiotics to help support whole body health. Essentials Adult Rat provides 100% of your pet’s daily recommended vitamins and minerals with no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors.

Details
  • Oxbow EVERYBite foods deliver complete nutrition in every serving
  • Top 2 ingredients are high energy whole grains to help provide energy for an active life
  • Antioxidants and prebiotics help support whole body health
  • No artificial preservatives, colors, or flavors – just genuine, purposeful ingredients
  • Contains 100% of your pet’s daily recommended vitamins & minerals to help support whole body health
  • Formulated with the guidance of top veterinarians and nutritionists

Feed Complete, Uniform Food

Optimal daily nutrition comes from balanced meals chock full of essential vitamins and minerals in every bite that will keep your pet’s body healthy and strong. All Oxbow foods are made with purposeful, premium ingredients and are 100% uniform to prevent the unhealthy selective eating habits that come with muesli and foraging mixes, and ensure complete nutrition in every bowl, every bite, every time!

Whole Brown Rice, Oat Groats, Wheat Bran, Wheat,
Soybean Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Calcium
Carbonate, Natural Flavor, Soybean Hulls, Brewer’s
Dried Yeast, Flax Seed Meal, Monocalcium
Phosphate, DL-Methionine, Canola Oil, Hydrolyzed
Yeast, Wheat Germ Meal, Yucca Schidigera Extract,
Salt, Inulin, Magnesium Oxide, Mixed Tocopherols
(preservative), Choline Chloride, Sodium Bentonite,
Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganous
Oxide, L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate (Vitamin C),
Niacin, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Biotin,
d-Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Proteinate,
Manganese Proteinate, Riboflavin Supplement,
Vitamin A Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride,
Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate, Menadione
Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Vitamin K), Vitamin B12
Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid,
Calcium Iodate, Cobalt Carbonate, Rosemary
Extract

Crude Protein (min) 15.00% Crude Fat (min) 4.00%
Crude Fiber (min) 2.00% Crude Fiber (max) 5.00%
Moisture (max) 10.00% Calcium (min) 1.00% Calcium
(max) 1.50% Phosphorous (min) 0.80% Vitamin A
(minn) 8,000 IU/kg Vitamin D3 (min) 1,000 IU/kg
Vitamin E (min) 125 IU/kg

Adult (over 6 months): Unlimited

In addition, it is recommended to feed a limited amount of appropriate vegetables and fresh fruits.

Grass hay for foraging and nesting.

* Please note that these are guidelines. If you have questions about your pet’s daily feeding regimen, please contact your veterinarian or Oxbow for more specific feeding information.

This product is not intended for young, pregnant or nursing rats. We encourage pet owners to feed Oxbow’s Mouse and Young Rat Food during this stage of life.

Offer Oxbow’s grass hay to stimulate natural nesting and foraging behavior.

Transitioning Foods: Week One, mix ¼ new food with ¾ current food. Week Two, mix ½ new food with ½ current food. Week Three, mix ¾ new food with ¼ current food. By Week Four, you can feed Oxbow Essentials Adult Rat Food exclusively to your pet.

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