Every animal has a species requirement and an individual one. This walks through both. Nothing you write here is marked — it's a plan you make, print and then change when the animal tells you it isn't working.
Pick an animal to fill the prompts with something useful. You can change every word afterwards.
Seven boxes. Fill in what you know and leave what you don't — a gap is information too.
Vary the presentation across the week rather than the food itself. Same nutrition, different work to get at it.
Not a checklist to complete. A set of questions that catch the things people miss.
A feeding plan that isn't recorded is a guess. Write down the amount and type of feed given, what was left, the time of day, whether water was provided, who did it, and anything you noticed.
Good records are consistent, accurate, valid and reliable.
Things that quietly ruin them: measuring by eye, spillage and waste, a change of staff, a change of timing, a change of feed, one animal guarding the bowl, and equipment that's broken but still being used.
Written by students. Read them for the shape of the thinking, not to copy.
Nothing is saved when you close this page, so print it or copy it out before you go.
Food always available
HamsterHorseChinchillaFinchSheepRabbit
Three or four times a day
RatKittenParrotPuppyTortoiseChicken
Once a day
PufferfishBearded dragonOwlLeopard geckoTurtlePenguin
Browsers — leaves, shoots, shrubs, high-growing plants
GoatIbexDeerReindeerGiraffeElephantRhinoOstrichTortoise
Grazers — grass and low-lying vegetation
SheepTurtleBisonHorseCattleCapybaraHippoGrasshopperGiant pandaGeeseRabbit
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