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More informationTammar wallaby
Macropus eugenii
Natural diet Tammar wallaby
Tammar wallabies are herbivorous grazers and their natural diet mainly consists out of grasses alongside the consumption of wild fruits and herbs.
Feeding advice Tammar wallaby
Feed quantity per day
5%
Sample percentage calculation
If an animal weighs 6 kg and eats 5% of its body weight, it will get
6 x 0.05 = 0.3 kg feed in total per day
Feed composition
10% Concentrates
90% Grass, alfalfa, roughage
Proportions (fresh product)
0.1 x 0.3 kg = 30 g concentrates
0.9 x 0.3 kg = 270 g grass, alfalfa, roughage
Feeding advice Tammar wallaby
Feed quantity per day
5%
Sample percentage calculation
If an animal weighs 6 kg and eats 5% of its body weight, it will get
6 x 0.05 = 0.3 kg feed in total per day
Feed composition
10% Concentrates
90% Grass, alfalfa, roughage
Proportions (fresh product)
0.1 x 0.3 kg = 30 g concentrates
0.9 x 0.3 kg = 270 g grass, alfalfa, roughage
Diet Suggestions
Recommended
Grass hay
Variety of browse (willow, aspen, birch, rowan)
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.
- Supplement the diet with ad libitum grass (read more about browsers and grazers).
- Supply sufficient vitamin E by feeding adequate concentrates.
- Feeding sharp or coarse feed might cause oral traumas.
- Although present in their natural diets, feeding fruits might lead to abnormal fermentation in the hindgut because of high sugar levels in cultivated fruits compared to wild fruits (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
Grass hay
Variety of browse (willow, aspen, birch, rowan)
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