From:
Chris Lloyd
Date: 2002-05-22 13:40:00 UTC
Subject: RE: Baby food?
(start with two whole chicken breast, chop them up bones and
all, add a
pack of insides (hearts, gizzards, liver, fat, skin) and place
in blender
and liquefy them,)
If you then just feed it raw to the ferrets you do not have to
add all that junk to replace the vitamins you killed by
cooking it in the first place.
(You do want to make sure you get plenty of fat
in there - 20-30% of the dry matter should be fat. I know
it's hard to
estimate that way, but a store bought chicken doesn't have
enough fat
on it - more is needed.)
Do not confuse the amount of fat required in a kibble diet to
what is required with a BARF diet, when feeding a mainly meat
diet there is not the need to add fat to make up the
deficiencies you have in dry diets. Whole chicken is ok but
red meat like whole rabbit and pigeon is far higher in
protein. There is not much fat on ferrets natural prey in the
UK (rabbits rats and mice) and even less fat on the frogs and
fish they eat in France. Go for the raw diet if you can itÂ’s a
lot better for the ferrets but it is a lot more trouble to do
it correctly. Chris.
The Wessex Ferret Club www.ferrets-r-us.co.uk
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