Marion Leaf Eater Food
A highly palatable source of energy, from plant proteins and fibers for primates.

Marion Leaf Eater Food can be fed with fruits and vegetables to give your primates variety and natural sources of moisture and fiber. Marion Leaf Eater Food will not lose its shape when softened with water. When Marion Leaf Eater Food is fed dry, it can be an effective dentifrice.

This product is available in three sizes:
"Crumble size approximately the size of a "BB".
"Gorilla" size bar which is approximately 1 inch wide and approximately 2.5 inches long.
"Lemur" size extrusion which is approximately 1 inch wide and 1 inch long. All ship in 25 pound bags.

This product is an extruded food for use in the feeding of leaf eating primates, such as colobus, langurs, and howlers as well as tree kangaroos, red pandas, and other animals with higher fiber requirements. This product is formulated for breeding, growth, raising young, and other stressful periods of the life cycle, as well as for maintenance. The product is also a good high fiber diet for older primates, and is suitable for gorillas and orangutans. It does not contain gliadin (wheat gluten) and may be helpful in feeding primates with a sensitivity to this protein. This product contains carefully controlled amounts of iron and iodine.

Ingredients

Soybean meal, corn gluten meal, soybean hulls, sugar beet pulp, corn hominy feed, yellow corn, sucrose, dehydrated alfalfa meal, zinc sulfate, soybean oil (stabilized), dicalcium phosphate, flaxseed oil, niacin supplement, apple fiber, manganese sulfate, ferrous sulfate, calcium carbonate, d-calcium pantothenate, sodium chloride, copper sulfate, L-lysine, riboflavin supplement, thiamin mononitrate, cobalt oxide, folic acid, menadione nicotinamide bisulfite (vitamin K), pyridoxine HCL (vitamin B-6), l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), propionic acid, choline chloride, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, FDC # 40, biotin, sodium selenite, vitamin B-12 supplement, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D-3 supplement, vitamin E supplement.

This food is unconditionally guaranteed. Please store in a cool and dry location. Refrigeration is not required.

Guaranteed Analysis (New NRC's December 2003)

Crude Protein, min. 23.0 %; Crude Fat, min. 6.5 %; Crude Fiber, max.10.0 %; Avail. Iron, max, 120 ppm; Moisture, max. 10.0 %; Acid Detergent Fiber, min. 13.0 % ; Acid Detergent Fiber, max. 16.0 %; Ash, max. 7.0 %.

Feeding Directions

This product may be fed alone with fresh water or also mixed with fruits and vegetables. If mixed with these other foods, this Leaf Eater Food should not constitute less than one-half of the total food consumed by weight. Always provide plenty of fresh water. Do not use food that is old, or has signs of insect or rodent contamination. Never use food that is moldy.

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---SPECIES GROUP---   A LIST (note 1) B LIST (note 2) C LIST (note 3)     Colobus Howler Lemur   Langurs Gorilla   Chimpanzee   Gibbon   Orangutan     ME Values   A List 3.0 - 3.3 kcal/g   B List 2.8 - 3.0 kcal/g   C List 2.0 - 2.2 kcal/g     Note 1: forgut fermenters Estimates based upon actual feeding trials   Note 2: hindgut fermenters Estimates based upon actual feeding trials   Note 3: Estimates based upon actual feeding trials

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