Success: Available from stock
More informationSwamp wallaby
Wallabia bicolor
Natural diet Swamp wallaby
As can be guessed from the name, swamp wallabies generally live in swampy areas, but also in dense forest and woodlands. They are herbivorous browsers that use their forelimbs to manipulate their food. Besides this, they are able to eat plants which are poisonous to other species such as hemlock.
Feeding advice Swamp wallaby
Feed quantity per day
10-15%
Sample percentage calculation
If an animal weighs 17 kg and eats 15% of its body weight, it will get
17 x 0.15 = 2.55 kg feed in total per day
Feed composition
10% Concentrates
45% Grass, alfalfa, roughage
45% Browse
Proportions (fresh product)
0.1 x 2.55 kg = 255 g concentrates
0.45 x 2.55 kg = 1,148 g grass, alfalfa, roughage
0.45 x 2.55 kg = 1,148 g browse
Feeding advice Swamp wallaby
Feed quantity per day
10-15%
Sample percentage calculation
If an animal weighs 17 kg and eats 15% of its body weight, it will get
17 x 0.15 = 2.55 kg feed in total per day
Feed composition
10% Concentrates
45% Grass, alfalfa, roughage
45% Browse
Proportions (fresh product)
0.1 x 2.55 kg = 255 g concentrates
0.45 x 2.55 kg = 1,148 g grass, alfalfa, roughage
0.45 x 2.55 kg = 1,148 g browse
Diet Suggestions
Recommended
Variety of browse (willow, aspen, birch, rowan)
Grass hay
Salt lick
In moderation
Lucerne hay
Not recommended
Fruits
Vegetables
Sharp or coarse food items (e.g. stalky hay)
Common diseases
An unbalanced diet may result in one of these more commonly occurring diseases/conditions:
- Obesity
- Paralysis
- Dental disease
- Lumpy-jaw
- White muscle disease
Additional advice
- Divide the “Feed quantity per day” over at least two feeding moments per day.
- The browse used in the diet can be a mixture between dried and fresh browse (read more about browsers and grazers).
- Supplement the diet with ad libitum grass (hay).
- Supply sufficient vitamin E by feeding adequate concentrates.
- Feeding sharp or coarse feed might cause oral traumas.
- Feeding fruits might lead to abnormal fermentation in the hindgut because of high sugar levels (read more about nutritional values of (wild) fruits and vegetables).
- Stimulate foraging behaviour by hiding, stacking or hanging the feed. Besides this, scatter feeding is also advised (read more about feed enrichment and foraging behaviour).
Diet Suggestions
Recommended
Variety of browse (willow, aspen, birch, rowan)
Grass hay
Salt lick
In moderation
Lucerne hay
Not recommended
Fruits
Vegetables
Sharp or coarse food items (e.g. stalky hay)
Common diseases
An unbalanced diet may result in one of these more commonly occurring diseases/conditions:
- Obesity
- Paralysis
- Dental disease
- Lumpy-jaw
- White muscle disease
