Animal Feeding
Each year tons of food passes through the zoo’s diet kitchen. It takes a lot to feed the Zoo's more than 200 hungry mouths each day. Some of the food comes from local grocery stores or other food comes from a number of companies that specialize in making formulated feeds for zoo animals.
Each year, the Zoo’s animals chomp through about 50 tons of food- that’s 100,000 pounds of fruits, vegetables,
meats, grains, hay, and feeds!
Average annual amounts are as follows:
- 25.6 tons of hay
- 19.6 tons fresh fruits and vegetables
- 2.6 tons of meat, including
- 4,380 rats and mice
- 2.4 tons of grain
- 3,285 loaves of bread
- About 13,000 crickets
