Vegetables can be consumed in many forms and still count toward the daily serving requirement. This includes 100 percent vegetable juice and raw, cooked, fresh, frozen or canned vegetables. One-half cup of vegetable juice or most raw vegetables equals one serving.
Pet mice will eat most kinds of vegetables, but they tend to enjoy crunchy ones more. Vegetables such as broccoli, carrots and celery contain a balance of vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates that are essential to keeping your pet mouse healthy. A piece of apple also serves as a healthy treat.
Field Voles eat grass and live in a âlitter layerâ of dead plant material under long âtussockyâ grass. Wood Mice eat mostly berries, nuts and seeds from trees, shrubs and plants. Shrews are small predators and eat worms, beetles and insects (which eat dead leaves and plants). Rats often eat grain from farmerâs barns. Cereals such as wheat and barley are grown by the farmer to feed people or animals.