Message Number: YG2366 | New FHL Archives Search
From: ferretmagic@yahoo.se
Date: 2001-04-09 04:24:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Nutrition Question

"Kathy Maxwell" <petfriendly@h...> wrote:
> I have a question about feeding frozen rat pups/baby mice to
> ferrets. I have heard that they don't have the same nutritional
> value as they are not fully developed.
<snip>
> Kathy and the Ferret Collective

Hi!

I found a page with some info about the nutritional value of mice,
rats, insects etc (regarding feeding them to reptiles, actually):
http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/foodnutr.html
It doesn't have any info on protein and fat on young mice, but I
thought it might be of some interest anyway.

/Millan
Ozzy, Obelix and Phoebe