Tammar wallaby

Macropus eugenii

Tammar wallabies are herbivorous grazers and their natural diet mainly consists out of grasses alongside the consumption of wild fruits and herbs.

5% of body weight

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

10% Concentrates
90% Grass, lucerne and other roughages

0.1 x 0.3 kg = 30 g concentrates
0.9 x 0.3 kg = 270 g grass, lucerne and other roughages

Lucerne hay

Fruits
Vegetables
Sharp or coarse food items (e.g. stalky hay)

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).

An unbalanced diet may result in one of these more commonly occurring diseases/conditions: