how about seeds?

[Linnea]

If a bluey eats anything lying on the ground.....including dead animal parts, flowers, plants, small marsupials, bird babies (if falled down from a tree), fruit (if fallen down from a tree), berries, snail and insects.......

do they eat seeds or nuts? should this be included their diet?


im just curious in knowing >.< sorry.

[ExtremeJustin]

Apple seeds can kill them. I'm not sure about other types of seeds.

[MissMeg]

I heard it just takes longer to digest. Much longer. Thats why if you feed stawberries or raspberries you shouldnt feed them for a while (This is just what ive heard it could be wrong)

[Linnea]

i didnt mean apple seeds, of course i know they contain cyanide or however its spelled xD

i meant more like.......not sunflower seeds since i know theyre fatty, but in that direction?

[Nae]

I dont actually think Aus has many nuts or seeds that are edible if you dont have a beak/ tool to crack them open, and many are actually poisonous!

[Susann]

i meant more like.......not sunflower seeds since i know theyre fatty, but in that direction?

...do you mean Flaxseed? (Swe-linfrön)

[Linnea]

on the topic about feeding rodents on the advanced forum, someone mentioned finding seeds, among other thing, in a wild blueys stomach.

quote from huricanejen: "f you're able to get access to scientific journals/research articles, you can search for field studies on blue tongue skink diets. I was able to find one a little while ago that found that wild centralian and eastern blueys diets are primarily insects, occasionally carrion, and a significant portion of fruit and seeds."

so i guessed it meant seeds like that? or even wheat and birdseed mixes...... but it could also just be rests from fruits it ate. sorry....

[Katrina]

People has posted a while back about feeding seeds and grains and Laurie mentioned them eating the seed heads of grasses, but I haven't found enough info to add it into the diet chart. I think they definitely can and do eat some seeds in the wild, I'm just not sure if it is something we should worry about offering in captivity (aside from things like fruit and berry seed - like raspberry seeds).

That said, I want to keep the diet chart updated as we learn new things, so if people find evidence that various seeds or other foods would be a good addition I'd be happy to add it.

[Nae]

There were some seeds in the western that I hads poop. I still havent actually cleaned it out yet (:doh:), so I can go check it out later?

Its just other then fruit I really cant figure out any edible seeds...

[acanthurus]

I watched one of my males earlier this season for about an hour as he trampled individual stems of grass and wild grains that were growing before chewing the grains from the end of each one. He was amazingly good at picking the ones that were fully matured (?ripe), it seemed by smell.

[Linnea]

I watched one of my males earlier this season for about an hour as he trampled individual stems of grass and wild grains that were growing before chewing the grains from the end of each one. He was amazingly good at picking the ones that were fully matured (?ripe), it seemed by smell.

thats really interesting!
so, grass seeds huh? ill try to find a nutrient chart for them.

by wild grains, do you have any general idea what theyre called?
i can only think of wheat and such (im sorry, my english vocab fails me after that), but we have plenty of natural grass types that lets off quite large seeds.