From:
Pam Pillars
Date: 2008-11-07 15:35:07 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Food Questions?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Does it have to be fresh meat or can it be meat that has been frozen?=A0=A0=
We also raise chickens and butcher them in early summer. My dad usually eat=
s the liver and heart, but we do some many chickens there is always left ov=
er liver and heart.=A0 So I was thinking if I could freeze them my kids cou=
ld have liver through the winter.=A0 If I'm gonna start giving them raw mea=
t I don't want to give them the same thing everyday.=A0 Might as well give =
them a variety.=A0 We've tried giving them meat before and they didn't like=
it.=A0 But then again we gave them cooked meat.=A0 Maybe they could like r=
aw meat better.=A0
Pam Pillars
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From: v.wilber <marymadmcc@hotmail.com>
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 7, 2008 6:03:26 AM
--- In ferrethealth@ yahoogroups. com, "Pam" <pam_pillars@ ...> wrote:
>
> I keep reading posts about high fat diets for ferrets and that some
> people actually give their ferrets raw meat. Is this something we
> should be doing? Should we give our ferrets raw meat and if we do
what
> kind? The ferret food we have is high in fat and everything, but
do we
> still need to feed them raw meat.
Yes the ideal diet for a ferret is raw meat. I compromise with my
gang. They have a dish of meat in the evening that they keep
overnight without any dry food in the cage. In the morning after
playtime I put their dry food back in. In the summer I take any left
over meat out at this stage as it attracts flies and I don't want it
going off. Now it is cold during the day I leave the meat in and just
chuck out what is left when they get fresh in the evening.
They get chicken wings, (and other bits of chicken carcass, necks ,
backs, legs etc) they also get minced beef, the value stuff not best
steak, heart, liver (their favorite, especially chicken liver)
kidney. Sometimes they get lamb or pork and if they are very lucky
rabbit. In fact they can have pretty well any meat so long as it is
fresh not processed meat. i.e. nothing with added salt like bacon or
sausage. They have a lush coat; produce less pooh, although it can be
worrying as it varies in colour and consistency according to what
they have had to eat, which takes getting used to. They also have
great teeth, a judge in the summer thought my 6 year old was about 2
based on his teeth, and most important I am hoping a good diet low in
carbohydrate will avoid the stress on their pancreas which is
believed to contribute to development of insulinoma.
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