Meat/Organ/Bone ratio...

[harrisi]

Was just wondering what you lot use as a guideline meat/organ/bone ratio?
We are lucky enough to be able to feed an as close to natural as possible (ie. feeding wild ground dwelling bird chicks, eggs, rat, mice, rabbit, ground dwelling birds etc), whole prey diet so I dont worry too much about the Ratio and I use their poop as a guideline - if its loose then I will feed animals with less meat/rat and more bone, if its powdery or too firm (breaks when it hits the ground) then I feed fattier/meatier animals.

[Heather]

I've found ratios confusing and sometimes totally off. I use individual feeding. What's good for one isn't good for another. I know this is very confusing for beginners, but observation is all you really can do. I've had the two cats eating the very same diet (out of the same bowl) and one is constipated and the other is good with the diet. As they both eat the same food, I will add more meat and offal to relieve the constipated cat and observe to make sure that this doesn't present problems for the other cat (for some reason it usually doesn't). The same goes with the ferrets. I've found that I don't usually have problems with too much bone, usually too little. Runny poopies just means up the bone content a bit. I've also found that the more dominant ferrets usually get the choice bits which means their poopies are going to be more runny than the guys who get left with the bones. It's that simple and that difficult
Sorry, that's really vague but if you're feeding frankenprey think about what the size of a chicken is or quail, or mouse and feed the amount of meat to bone accordingly. I think it's more difficult if you decide that your going to feed meat on mon, meaty bones on tues, offal and bones on wed and so on. My guys get meat, bones and offal every day and prey at least 3x a week now that my colony is producing a good amount of mice (I can't wait for my rat supplier to get her guys going again)
ciao