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Date Posted: 14:54:38 02/19/07 Mon
Author: S. Patterson
Author Host/IP: bas3-toronto63-1096666713.dsl.bell.ca / 65.93.206.89
Subject: Re: Flyer Emergency!
In reply to: Becca 's message, "Flyer Emergency!" on 20:09:04 02/15/07 Thu

A super-varied diet that includes mushrooms and brassica veggies will often be enough. However, flyers being flyers, it is virtually impossible to measure/quantify their indivudual uptake. For example, unless you physically watch them eat their (very well washed or organic) broccoli, you have no way of knowing if they ate any, or how much they ate, because if it is missing from their veggie bowl in the morning, it could have been stashed somewhere, or just eaten by one squirrel (if you have more than one). Do not feed them spinach, as the calcium forms as calcium oxalate and will not provide bioavailable calcium. A cuttle bone is not very useful either, as you have no way of measuring intake.

Liquid vitamins are nowhere near as stable and quantifiable as powdered product. Powdered product is always superior to liquid. Try to buy a powdered rodent multivitamin and keep it in the fridge.

We used to provide a smattering of fruit jam mixed with limestone flour as a "calcium side dish" for our northern and southern every week, but we have since found a much better solution, as we had no way of monitoring uptake. We now use a powdered calcium/D3 supplement that dissolves in water called Calciboost Powder. It is meant for birds, but elemental bioavailable calcium is, well, elemental bioavailable calcium. It also has D3 in it. It is the only dissolvable powdered calcium supplement I know of. You can get liquid calcium supplements but these are in suspension, not dissolved. The squirrels do not get their calcium supplement 24/7, however. We do not want to provide TOO much calcium, and for that matter, TOO many vitamins. So, we alternate - one week of powdered calcium/D3 supplement in their purified drinking water, followed by one week of powedered multivitamins in their purified drinking water, and so on.

From what Nonda Surratt has said, often by the time one notices MBD it is too late. Good luck with your flyer and let us know how it turns out.

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