Better Soup Recipe?

[Jakk]

I was looking online and it seems like every Duck Soup recipe I have found calls ingredients extremely high in sugar, crammed with grain, and chemical filled processed foods! I know it is supposed to "fatten them up" but I honestly can't believe you have to pack them with sugar, dairy, grain, and chemicals to do so. Are there any recipes that are not so.....unhealthy?

[sherrylynne]

I use raw meat(usually you'd use chicken, but one of mine is a bit sensitive to it), heart, liver, egg, broth, and either raw bonemeal if you can get it, or powdered eggshell.

[Jakk]

thank you very much!

[Heather]

You could try this one, it's one that I've been using to help switch ferrets for a long time. I can't claim credit to this, I think it's actually Giuli's. Mine is almost exactly the same, except I use ground rmb (raw meat and bones instead of the straight up chicken, this doesn't make a creamy, soft soupy but it's nutritionally sound). This also means that I don't use the egg shell. I also use a raw egg (the whole thing, white and yolk) along with the water (or I will use meat stock for the liquid if I have some kicking around)

8 oz raw chicken thigh meat (including skin and fat)
1 tsp of crushed eggshell powder (take a raw eggshell. Rinse it out. Let it dry. Crush to powder)
1 raw chicken heart
1/2 raw chicken liver
Water (use more to make it soupier, less to make it thicker)

Blend ingredients together. Some prefer it at room temp. Try putting a dollop of "soup" onto your ferret's nose and they probably will lick it off. I use my finger. Sometimes this takes a little bit trying to convince them that you're not trying to poison them I find within a very short time they're licking this off my finger. When I see that they're willing to eat freely off my finger then I use a small spoon to try and get them to eat from that. Try to get them eating the soupy on their own. It might pique their interest.
I hope this gives you food for thought
ciao

[sherrylynne]

THAT'S the one I was trying to find!

[weloveourweasels]

I use this recipe and mine love it. I am going to be using it to switch them. It is NOT my recipe

BEV'S (crazy lady) RAW MEAT MUSH RECIPE:
Hi I have often been asked the question what is the raw soup I feed my ferrets I begin my kits on a raw meat mush at the age of three weeks this introduces them to all types of raw meat and also takes the strain away from mom ( mom gives all of her calcium via milk to her kits in the first three weeks of life so both mom and kits need a high calcium / protien rich diet to thrive ) into a blender I place

6oz of meat ( ground beef , liver ,chicken ,lamb duck what ever is available)
1 boiled egg
1 scoop of lactol ( kitten and puppy replacer milk ) or goats milk
1 tsp of bonemeal ( or one ground egg shell)
2 tsp of olive oil
1 1/2 cups of water
I blend this together untill it is a smooth soup and serve this four times per day this amount makes four servings ( I also give this to sick or elderly ferrets as a top up food )

as the kits progress the amount of water decreases eg at four weeks old I would only add 1 cup of water at five weeks old I add 1/2 cup of water and increase the amount of meat so they are eating a thick meat ball type food six weeks old there tearing off chunks of meat lol this soup is a good replacement food for sick ferrets who are used to eating meat but for waht ever reason cannot be bothered to chew it provides high protien and calcium levels plus vits and minerals you can add soaked kibble to the mix to encourage ferrets to eat it and add fiber ( kibbles contain a lot of fiber ) hope this helps those of you who wish to try a raw meat soup take care bye for now
crazy lady


I do not put kibble in there and am going to be buying powdered goats milk instead of the KMR.

[spiritualtramp]

I'm a fan of Pingford's Porridge as a base to my soups! www.pingfordsporridge.com

Kim is a great woman and the products are great as a start-off point for us lazy chefs Usually I add equal parts PP with ground duck, pheasant, rabbit, or quail, whole eggs, ground eggshell, and water. Then I blend it up and freeze.