Homegrown Pets Radish Rat

In small amounts your rats can benefit from eating radish since the vegetable is quite nutritious but giving them too much of it is not good.

Homegrown pets radish rat. Raw beans or peanuts. Well this year we are growing radishes in the garden and i wondering if it was ok for them to eat. Unlike other radishes the rat tail radish will keep right on producing through the heat of summer. Pet rats can eat radish but only in small amounts.

They do look a little like a rat s tail but that s just part of their charm. Rats who are fed a balanced diet live longer and stay slim and healthy. Radishes contain oxalates which hinder calcium absorption if you feed them too much of it. When planning a homemade pet rat food diet make sure you stay away from the following foods.

Fresh fruits vegetables and cooked meats will also provide your pet rat with a range of tastes and textures in his food that he is sure to enjoy. Rat tails should be harvested sooner than later to keep the plant producing. It doesn t form much of a root but the pencil thin seed pods carry the same sizzling bite and crispness as traditional bulb radishes. Rat s tail radish is grown for its edible pod.

I have to pet dumbo rats named luna and sidus. The first thing to do before you attempt to make homemade rat food is research what is good for your rats and what is not good for them. They can be started very early in the spring as soon as the ground is relatively dry and again towards the end of summer for a fall garden and even in late fall with the protection of a cold frame since radishes grow quickly they can be squeezed in between other plants in the vegetable garden. Provide an inch of water a week.

You can harvest rat tail radish pods when they are about as thick as a pencil and 4 or 5 inches long.