Serval Cat Diet

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Servals eat between one & six pounds of meat a day. It is usually regarded as safe to feed raw meat with bones included to servals. While this may go against what lots of people recommend for domestic animals, think about what these servals eat in the wild. Nobody removes the bones for them! However, it would be hazardous for you to feed cooked meat or poultry with bones in it to your serval (or any animal). When bones are cooked, they become more brittle & can splinter. Stomach contents of wild servals have included rats and mice of various types, shrews, moles, hares, birds, reptiles, amphibians ( frogs), crabs, and other creatures identified only as unidentified small mammal. Thing to consider feeding:

Chicken
Turkey
Beef
Rabbit
Fresh fish
Cooked chicken with bones removed

The first step when designing the diet for a serval is to research what they eat in the wild, and try to incorporate as plenty of elements of that as feasible in to what you feed. There is no one accepted standard for diet, but a fresh meat based diet is usually thought about to be preferable to a commercial diet. Servals are bind carnivores, which means that they must get virtually all of their nutrients from meat. Under no circumstances ought to an exotic catlike be fed a vegetarian diet. The diet most often recommended is one consisting of raw, bone-in poultry and meat, supplemented with vitamins made for wild felines. I feed a variety of foods, with raw meat, fish, and poultry forming the base of the diet. I supplement this with the Oasis wild catlike vitamins and the Oasis calcium supplement, although I have heard excellent things about Wild Trax vitamins as well. A scat study in the Kamberg Nature Reserve showed that the diet of servals in the area consisted of 80% rodents, 13.5% shrews, 5% birds, 0.9% reptiles, and 0.7% insects. One wild serval was seen catching and eating at least 28 frogs in a 3-hour period. While they sometimes raid chicken and duck pens, they are not known for hunting larger livestock. They do not normally prey on animals larger than themselves, although on rare occasions they have killed flamingos, duiker, and young antelope.

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