From:
daneedv@aol.com
Date: 2002-04-15 12:05:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Baby ferret nursing formula????
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., James Giacalone wrote:
>
> Be careful with AD. It is great for sick animals but
> is not nutritionally balanced for a kit. It is high
> in calories (which they need) but low in fat (5%) and
> most important of all PROTEIN. It only has 8% and
> kits require around 30% min or higher.
AD is a moist food, and so the percentages are really higher
then they look. Off hand, I do not know how to convert a
moist food to what it would be dry, but I know that I saw an
explanation of how to do it somewhere. Possibly in the
archives of the FHL.
Anyway, you can't compare dry food percentages to moist food
percentages with out doing a conversion. Because most of us
feed dry food, we usually talk about protein and fat
requirements as needed in dry foods.
Danee
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