squishy506
Going Natural
It's time to kiss a ferret
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Post by squishy506 on Dec 19, 2008 19:51:32 GMT -5
Our new baby Leela is just under a year old, and I tried giving her some raw chicken. I just gave her one bite one day and another the next day, with a little ferretone on it, and she ate it up!
She switched over to our kibble in a day without poo problems and ate our duck soup ravenously after a few days, so she is my prodigy.
Now, what should I do to keep her on this track? The other kids will nibble at raw but never eat enough for a meal, so I figured if I had one who ate it, eventually in a few years, all my kids will be into it.
All we have in the kitchen now is chicken and eggs. Should I make little meals for her, and how do I do that without starving the others by taking kibble away?
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Post by sherrylynne on Dec 20, 2008 0:14:12 GMT -5
I'd just cube up some raw chicken for her, and put it on a plate in the cage morning and evening, when you feed the others. Who knows? Maybe they'll decide it looks better than the kibble when they see her digging in!
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Post by bigsis7 on Dec 20, 2008 15:26:32 GMT -5
I would cut up the chicken into cubes (like sherrylynne said) or you could make a soup for her. My Oliver is a pretty picky eater and Chewie is a really piggy eater. So whenever I give them something new to try Chewie tries it first and then Ollie gets jealous and steals it and eats the whole thing . Maybe with your little girl eating raw the others will try it too.
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Post by spiritualtramp on Dec 21, 2008 15:55:02 GMT -5
I'm with the others! Start out by cubing the chicken into real small bites, and put it on a plate next to the kibble in the morning or evening (or both, whatever works best for you really.) She'll probably end up waiting for the chicken instead of filling up on kibble, and then you can begin introducing her to other raw foods easily too.
Sometimes the jealousy factor really works in convincing the others, too (Sailor was so envious of Diesel when I started feeding him raw, one day she just swooped in, stole a wing from him, and ran off to eat it. I was shocked!)
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