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Originally Posted by racinghamster
I totally agree. You do need to know what you are doing and not be reducing each element of a diet. I see things like peanuts as high in fat for example, so weighing up how many peanuts a hamster should have each day or week is`nt easy but looking at one bag of food mix, there are probably around enough peanuts in there to last the whole duration of the bag, so if the bag of food is to last six months for example, the number of peanuts inside could be consumed well before this date, so picking them out and allowing the hamster one of two peanuts solely from that mix over a period of time is probably staying within those guidelines, without adding in more peanuts from another source.
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That makes sense, essentially then you arent actually altering the diet, merely ensuring that the high in fat items are consumed over a period of time rather than in one go
