and dandelion (converted for evaporation by a control cage with grass in it). This represents 62.3 g x 35/141 = 15.46 g of dry grass. They produced 9.1g of dry pellets or 35.5 g of moist pellets. Hence, they eat their weight in green grass everyday and defecate half their weight per day in moist feed pellets, OR, eat 1/4th their wt. per day dry grain and defecate 1/8th. nov.17 Overnight in addition to grass they ate alfalfa cheese, little if any corn meal mush, Did not eat dandelion leaf. nov.18 Hip weighed 34 g, S^2 31g. at 9:55 a.m., marked them on fur with fluorescent powder to see if it would come through in droppings. Could detect more, even 24 hrs later. nov.21 Coitica ate sunflower seeds, and lambsquarters, and alfalfa. nov.25 Shoulder weighed 40 g, Hip weighed 39 g. Dec 4 shoulder 48.5g; hip weighed 50.5g.