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Thank-you so much for requesting our Nut Ball/ Nut Square recipe. You will find it on page two of this PDF file below. You have made a wise decision to improve the nutritional status of your squirrel friend(s)! Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine said, “ Let medicine be your food, and food your medicine.” There's also a computer Axiom that goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.” We are the sum total of everything we eat, and that goes for all living creatures.
At SquirrelNutrition.com, we strive to bring the diet of squirrels back to as close to their natural state as possible. Squirrels are essentially herbivores, meaning vegetarian, and they will eat an occasional bug or worm depending on what nutrient their body needs. In a starvation situation, a squirrel, being a rodent, will resort to eating just about anything to survive. I've rehabbed baby squirrels that were trying to survive by eating tar paper.
Processed foods, ( anything made commercially like snack foods, chips, etc.,) should never be fed to squirrels. Anything with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils or preservatives should never cross their lips.
Due to soil depletion, even the fruits and vegetables we now consume no longer contain the same levels of nutrients they did 40 to 50 years ago. Therefor, supplementation has become the best way to insure a healthy diet.
Nut Balls/ Nut Squares bridge that gap for squirrels, and are designed for squirrels that are in captivity to insure that they get every nutrient they need to prevent the onset of Metabolic Bone Disease.
We also make Squirrel Biscuits that are designed for outside and released squirrels, to insure that they get some vegetables and nutrients they need to stay healthy.
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Nut Ball or Nut Squares Recipe
1 cup rice flakes (Heinz or Gerber's' baby rice cereal)
½ cup ground-up pecans
2/3 cup sesame seeds
1 Tablespoon Brewers' Yeast powder.
1 Tablespoon Lecithin granules or 1 teaspoon liquid Lecithin
1½ to 2 heaping teaspoons KAL brand dolomite powder
Vitamin C -- 1000 mg. (mashed tablets)
6 - 10 alfalfa tablets, mashed
1/4 teaspoon iodized salt
Cod liver oil (enough for 6000 I.U's ( Use liquid, not capsules.)
Vitamin E 600 I.U.'s.
1 to 2 teaspoons salad oil ( We substitute 2 Tablespoons of Raw Coconut Oil for the Salad Oil)
• Choose from any of a combination of the following optional ingredients to make
½ cup liquid:
• Mashed banana
• Applesauce
• Frozen strawberries with syrup or natural juices
• Apple juice concentrate (no water added)
• Fruit cocktail (in heavy syrup -- or natural juices) with maraschino cherries
removed
• Canned pears or peaches in heavy syrup or natural juices
• Pure juice (100%) nectar
• Frozen blueberries (or fresh if available)
Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl then pat the dough into a square
approximately ½ inch thick. Mark the dough with a long knife until you have 10
rows in each direction. This will yield 100 nut squares of approximately the right
size. Make the cuts in the dough and move the squares onto a cookie sheet for
drying. They can be dried for two to three days in indirect sunlight or under a
warming lamp. (I do mine 24 hours in a food dehydrator!)
Store them in the freezer and serve one per day. Do not give any other food
one hour before or after feeding the nut square!
Convenient Nut Ball Kits can be ordered at:
Squirrel Nutrition Nut Square Order Page Only $8.00 for 3 month supply!
1 cup rice flakes (Heinz or Gerber's' baby rice cereal)
½ cup ground-up pecans
2/3 cup sesame seeds
1 Tablespoon Brewers' Yeast powder.
1 Tablespoon Lecithin granules or 1 teaspoon liquid Lecithin
1½ to 2 heaping teaspoons KAL brand dolomite powder
Vitamin C -- 1000 mg. (mashed tablets)
6 - 10 alfalfa tablets, mashed
1/4 teaspoon iodized salt
Cod liver oil (enough for 6000 I.U's ( Use liquid, not capsules.)
Vitamin E 600 I.U.'s.
1 to 2 teaspoons salad oil ( We substitute 2 Tablespoons of Raw Coconut Oil for the Salad Oil)
• Choose from any of a combination of the following optional ingredients to make
½ cup liquid:
• Mashed banana
• Applesauce
• Frozen strawberries with syrup or natural juices
• Apple juice concentrate (no water added)
• Fruit cocktail (in heavy syrup -- or natural juices) with maraschino cherries
removed
• Canned pears or peaches in heavy syrup or natural juices
• Pure juice (100%) nectar
• Frozen blueberries (or fresh if available)
Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl then pat the dough into a square
approximately ½ inch thick. Mark the dough with a long knife until you have 10
rows in each direction. This will yield 100 nut squares of approximately the right
size. Make the cuts in the dough and move the squares onto a cookie sheet for
drying. They can be dried for two to three days in indirect sunlight or under a
warming lamp. (I do mine 24 hours in a food dehydrator!)
Store them in the freezer and serve one per day. Do not give any other food
one hour before or after feeding the nut square!
Convenient Nut Ball Kits can be ordered at:
Squirrel Nutrition Nut Square Order Page Only $8.00 for 3 month supply!
