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Post by Shay on Feb 21, 2010 23:43:27 GMT -5
Hello, I'm Shay I'm a soon-to-be first time ferret owner. I'm getting two lovely little boys pretty soon, and I'd love to start them on the raw diet as soon as I can. They're 1 and 2 I just heard about this diet and am extremely fascinated with it. I've been reading about it for the past few hours. Anyway, I'd really love if someone could walk me through their personal diets with their carpet sharks, like meal sizes, how often, what meats, etc. I'd also really appreciate a list of meats they can have, and the deal with bones (like how big of one is too big?) The preparation would also be wonderful! Thank you all in advance, I'm so fascinated with this diet!
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Post by Heather on Feb 22, 2010 0:30:59 GMT -5
Hello Shay Congratulations on your newest little family members. It's rather difficult to walk one through this type of diet but I will give you an overview I've been feeding a natural diet for over 11 years, I've personally switched over 30+ ferrets to this diet and I will never get over the changes that I see. I run a small, private rescue hospice. Every furbaby that comes into my house, gets a new name and a new diet (all are switched to a natural diet). My guys get a combination of foods, commercial, ground raw, frankenprey and prey (both live and frozen). My guys free roam except for a few hours every night. Ferrets can eat any protein source that comes to your mind and that's available. Most start with chicken, because it's mild and easily available but you don't have to start there. My furbrats eat chicken, turkey, quail, emu, venison, beef, pork, lamb, goat, bison, rabbit, mice and rats. As ferrets have a tendency to fixate on a food source it's adviceable that you try and switch up your proteins. We advice that you use a minimum of 3 different proteins to try and cover all your nutritional bases but more are definitely better. Might I suggest that you take a prowl through our mentoring section. You can read through the various threads, see different methods that are used to switch (there are as many switching methods as there are ferrets, that's what makes this method of feeding so fascinating). If you have questions, then you can post it here and you can get some more answers (you can't post in the mentoring sections as they're only for the persons directly involved in the switch). If you think you would like a mentor and work one on one with someone who's done the switching a few times then fill out an application and when there's an opening we will get you set up with a mentor. ciao
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Post by Shay on Feb 22, 2010 19:26:01 GMT -5
Oh thank you so much! The mentoring section was really helpful. It was really interesting to read how everyone else was converting their ferrets and what their diets were! Anyway, thank you so much. I'll probably be back around pretty often asking questions!
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