From:
sukiecrandall@telocity.com
Date: 2001-11-09 22:57:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Corn
Two reasons:
1. It is not a source of accessible protein for them so it's better to
have it only as a more minor ingredient, same as any grain or
other foods that are that unnatural to their diets.
2. Too much yellow corn (It apparently takes a good bit unless
an individual is inclined in this direction.) raises the urine pH, if
memory serves, and that in turn makes the formation of bladder
stones more likely.
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Lyal Shaw" <leshaw@e...> wrote:
> I have read that corn should not be in the first 3 ingredients of
ferret food. Why is this? And when the ingredients are listed on
the bag for ferret food is there a agency that checks the
companies to make sure that the specified ingredients are in
ratio with the portion of being listed as the first ingredient being
the most of the percentages with the second ingredient lesser
and so forth and how often are they checked.
>
> Harriett H. H.