Mouflon food

Have you heard of Mouflon? It may not be a very familiar name, but Mouflon is a wild sheep, a type of original breed of domestic sheep. In this article, we will tell you about the food given to Mouflon kept at Tama Zoo.

Wild Mouflon eat leaves and wild plants, but Mouflon at Tama Zoo are fed mainly dried timothy, a grass family pasture, as well as green grass, pellet food (solid food), and oak leaves and branches.

I usually give them hay in the morning, pellet food in the afternoon, and about twice a week I give them oak branches in the evening. Mouflon have very clear likes and dislikes when it comes to food, preferring green grass and pellet food, but there are days when they won't eat any hay.

If animals continue to eat only their favorite food, it can lead to various health problems. For this reason, the animal keeper want them to eat hay. However, the difficult thing about animals is that they don't eat it so easily. Here are two photos of Timothy hay.

At first glance, both types of hay look the same, but there seems to be a big difference between them to Mouflon. Some mouflons eat the same type of hay well, while others don't. The hay on the left is softer, so they eat it well, while the hay on the right is left behind. animal keeper are able to distinguish these differences and give Mouflon the hay they prefer.

In this way, animal keeper feed the animals taking into consideration various factors such as their eating habits, physical condition, and preferences. When you visit Tama Zoo, please take a look at what food is being given to each animal. We hope that this article will spark your interest in Mouflon.

By the way, what happens to the hay that Mouflon doesn't like? Himalayan Tahr, which are raised in the same area, eat it.

[Tama Zoo]