Re: Waste, waste, and more waste !
I use a mix of seed/hamster diet and lab blocks, but I'm using Native earth rodent blocks (which supposedly meet the requirements of multiple species). I crunch up some blocks, add some hamster diet / seed mix, and some extras like millet, freeze-dried chicken / meal worms, dried pasta, oats, etc. They do pick through it, but I've started leaving it in a day or two longer so that they have to eat some of the bits they don't prefer, then I change out with fresh. The lab blocks I'm mainly including to get the vitamins and minerals they contain. None of the food I give contains grass / hay, which is in a lot of pelleted hamster food (I think those are the bits they leave behind a lot). I don't think it would hurt to include rodent blocks in your diet, just make sure they are a good block without grass or corn.
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