From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-10-08 16:40:12 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Need a Hi protien ferret food
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Tressie" <tressiedu@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Bobbi,
>
> I believe Innova EVO Ferret or Innova EVO Cat/Kitten (virtually
> identical foods) have the highest protein.
>
> Crude Protein (min) 50 %
That is actually pretty close to whole mice which are something like
52% protein as i recall from an analysis of the nutrient components
of adult mice. (Infant mice have different levels and it needs to be
noted that infant mice and chicks are too low in calcium for being
prolonged centers of diets without that supplemented.)
I don't have time to seek that right now, but it might be in the
FHL Archives. Ditto the one on chicks.
Another way to feed more protein is to provide some meals that
are based around meat only. That is not a balanced diet by any means
because unlike whole animals or diets that include organs and other
body parts other than muscle (meat), just providing muscle tissue
lacks many nutrients and long term can deplete calcium levels, too. Still,
for a terminal animal, a highly compromised animal who is being
supplemented, or an animal on such a diet short term it is certainly
a viable approach to replace some meals with all-meat ones.
In that case if the ferret is not used to the food try slow and friendly
finger feeding with the first one or few attempts being rubbed on the
ferret's gums or between teeth if the ferret needs to be introduced to
the food.
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