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Table­41.3­ Ingredient composition of various insect-substitute diets.
Gut-loaded Gut-loaded FoNS­2018­ Mazuri Basic­Nestling­
mealworms a crickets b,c BuNS 2019 d Wellness e Nestling Meal f Robyn’s­Songbird­Diet g Diet h
Mealworms Crickets 15 g dried crickets 135 g (1 cup) Primary 187 g Wellness Complete Health 122 g (1 cup)
Wellness Core Ingredients – Soy Kitten Diet Purina ProPlan
Gut-loaded with Gut-loaded with 5 g dried Kitten Formula protein Kitten Chicken
high calcium 83% Timberline mealworms soaked in 360 ml concentrate, 70 g Science Diet Adult Light Feline and Rice dry
gut loading Cricket Power (1.5 cups) water dried egg, dried nd diet
diet w/ 14.4% Food and 17% 2 g dried soldier fly chicken, fishmeal 142 g Gerber 2 Food, chicken and
Calcium T-Rex 2.0 Calcium/ larvae 18 g (3 tbsp) dried gravy 300–360 ml
No Phosphorus egg white Water varies by (1.25-1.5 cups)
Supplement 0.8 g CaCO 3 desired 130 g hardboiled egg (no shell) water
(powder) 5 g (1/2 tsp active consistency
culture plain yogurt 6 g CaCO 3 (powder) 12 g (2 tbsp)
0.4 g (4 scoops) dried powdered
Avi-Era vitamins 4.6 g (1 tsp) corn, 3 tsp Avian Formula LA 200 (Fox egg white
(Lafeber) canola or sunflower Valley Animal Nutrition)
oil 1.85 g CaCO 3
0.05 g active culture 1 g (1/4 tsp) Avi-Era vitamins (Lafeber) (powder)
plain yogurt per 1.0 2.0 g CaCO 3
g dry mix (powder) 1 tablet Simply Right B-complex + C 1 g (1/4 tsp)
2.5 g water per 1.0 g 1 g (1/4 tsp) Avi-Era 720 g water Avi-Era
vitamins
dry mix vitamins (Lafeber) Supplemental Insects or ½ cup dried (Lafeber)
insects
For all blended diets: Add dry ingredients to water to soften prior to mixing (e.g. BuNS) or blending (e.g. Basic Nestling Diet). BuNS is intended to be fed as moist clumps
by forceps; other blended diets should be smooth enough to feed by syringe.
a Bernard and Allen 1997.
b Finke 2002.
c Finke et al. 2005.
d Modified by the authors from Winn and Finke 2017.
e Winn and Finke 2017.
f http://www.mazuri.com/product_pdfs/5S90.pdf
g Grabowski. 2014.
h Duerr 2007.

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