Although the mouse mix will provide the mouse with a good basic diet, mice also enjoy fruit and vegetables. However, it is important that fruit and vegetables should be introduced to a mouse's diet gradually as a sudden large amount of fruit or vegetables can cause diarrhoea.
To begin with the mouse should only be given a small piece of fruit or vegetable once or twice a week and graducally this can be increased to larger amounts every day. If at any time the mouse shows signs of diarrhoea all feeding of fruit and vegetables should stop until the mouse has recovered and then gradually re-introduced into the diet.
Certain vegetables, herbs and fruit can be fed to mouse. The mouse should only be fed an amount it will eat as if the mouse is fed too much and leaves vegetables and fruit in the cage it can become mouldy.
Some fruit, vegetables and herbs that are safe to feed a mouse are:
- Apple (seedless)
- Banana
- Broccoli
- Brussel Sprouts - small amounts occasionally
- Carrots
- Cauliflower leaves and stalks
- Cucumber
- Grapes
- Kiwi
- Lettuce - small amounts occasionally
- Mango
- Parsley - a good tonic
- Peas
- Romaine Lettuce
- Tomato
Fruit, vegetables and herbs that should not be fed include:
- Kidney Beans (raw)
- Onion
- Potato (raw)
- Potato tops
- Rhubarb (raw)
- Rhubarb leaves
- Tomato leaves
