From:
nzweezul
Date: 2002-05-31 20:42:00 UTC
Subject: Re: what are people feeding ferts around the world?
> I was thinking about blending shrimp and raw egg.
> Can anyone comment
My comment - mmm, can I come to your house for dinner? Shrimp
omelette! Yummy!
>
> Also, to the people who feed whole carcass, is it cooked? Do you
include fur? Is is through a food processor?
> I'd like to know what polecats and feral ferrets eat in the wild.
Frogs? Insects? Fish? Surely rats, mice and birds.
Whole carcase is (in Northern Europe at least) just as it is after
the death of the animal - raw, furred or feathered, bones, guts,
legs, beaks teeth wings and claws. No microwaves or pressure cookers
or mincers in Mother Nature! No vets either ... and not because they
are not needed, either.
Here in NZ the feral ferrets and ferret/polecat hybrids eat chiefly
rabbit. When the number of rabbit drop, so do the number of ferrets.
They eat some birds but not too many as they can't climb like cats
can, and they are not pouncing animals like cats are, either. Have
you ever seen a ferret hunt? I believe there are some UK videos that
show hunting wiht ferrets.