Captive diet for Common Hoopoes:
5 grams of tout chow
5 grams of minced meat
5 grams of hard-boiled egg - crumbled onto trout chow
5 grams of mealworms
5 grams of larvae - any small Dermistids beetle larvae
14 grams of earthworms - put in a container of soil
2 droops of wheat germ oil on egg
5 grams of blueberries
5 grams of Vionate multivitamin sprinkled onto minced meat
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