whole prey frozen pet food

[amymelissa]

I was searching and found this. I thought it was pretty cool but I'm not sure price wise... it seems expensive but I like it for the convenience. $44.90 for a 10lb jug. They have more than just Laying-Hen so there is a variety.
Here is what it says:
Laying-Hen is natural cat food in its purist form. That’s because it’s exactly what your cat would be eating if it were in the wild, that’s no exaggeration. In the wild cats catch prey such as birds, mice and rabbits and for the most part they consume them whole. No one removes the feathers, fur or bones for them, so what they catch is referred to as “whole Prey food”, which is exactly what Laying-Hen Natural Cat Food Diet is. We haven’t added to, taken away from, or altered it in any way other than to grind the entire prey animal, in this case a chicken, bottle and quick freeze it. This is what the concept of whole prey raw cat food is all about. The concept is so simple so nutritious it’s a thing of beauty.

Link:wildlifepetfoods.com/cart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5

[Heather]

I'm curious as to why alfalfa would be a necessary additive, it's certainly not a good product for either cats or ferrets . I guess you wouldn't have to add it. It sounds good albeit rather expensive. It runs on the similar concept as urban carnivore...which was a good product...but again very expensive. It wouldn't be bad I suppose if you only had a couple of ferrets or if you used it to supplement an already varied diet. I don't have qualms with ground as I feed a whole variety of ground, whole meats and prey...so if I could get something in the ground that I wasn't getting in my prepared diet, it would be a great additive. I would question the addition of feathers ?? I've given the guys a partridge, they left the feathers....everywhere They may have consumed some of the small pin feathers but they certainly left the rest. There are a lot of feathers on a partridge.
In my opinion it would be worth further investigation, except for the cost.
ciao

[jojodancer]

I use this. It was my first foray into commercial raw, and I took the transition slowly. I probably didn't have to go as slowly as I did, because my ferts loved it.

It comes in a 10 pound jug with a wide mouth opening. My advice is to set aside a little time over a weekend and get about 8 ice cube trays. Thaw part of the laying hen and put into ice cube trays. Refreeze. You'll have to do this about 3 or 4 times since there is quite a bit of food in that tub. In fact, you may want to put the thawed food into dixie cups and freeze those instead - means less thawing and re-freezing, and hte dixie cup proportion was more in tune with 6 ferrets.

The alfalfa is sold separately, and I never bothered to buy it. The whole prey laying hen was sufficient.

I still have some of this, and I ordered it in February 08. I do mix things up a bit to get variation in their diet. So sometimes it's the laying hen, sometimes its AFS beef/chicken logs, sometimes it's stella and chewys, yadda yadda yadda.

But honestly, I loved the wildlife whole prey food. (and the ferts did too!)