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Post by pastelsummer on Apr 12, 2010 20:20:31 GMT -5
can they eat boiled chicken or should i debone raw and feed that? also if i were to buy frozen baby mice would i cook or just defrost them? I am thinking that the raw diet would be fine if i can just do a combo of chicken and frozen baby mice, i can't raise my own feeders i would get to attathed also can they eat fish or is that a no no?
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Post by Heather on Apr 12, 2010 22:32:14 GMT -5
Feeding natural  Raw meat and bones...don't forget the bones. A very important component, without it your ferret will get sick. Raw...not cooked. Also organ meats. Don't cook the little mice either. If you're going to feed mice...they're fed as they are. My guys love their micecicles and ratcicles  They also love to hunt their own mice too (this is not for everyone). To feed a natural diet (raw) you must feed a minimum of 3 different types of protein to cover all their nutrients and balance their diet. This could be chicken, pork, beef. You could feed prey (this gets expensive if you have to buy your prey)...mice, rats and hamsters would be an example of 3 proteins for prey. My guys eat chicken, turkey, pork, beef, quail, rabbit, emu, salmon and elk. For prey, they get mice (both live and frozen) and frozen rats. That should give you a quick and dirty example Others can pop in and add their insights too ciao |
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Post by sherrylynne on Apr 13, 2010 21:29:17 GMT -5
I feed chicken wings, thighs, drumsticks, turkey neck, turkey chunks, cornish game hen, beef, pork, goat, lamb, rabbit, quail, liver, kidney(only organs I can get here), heart, frozen thawed mice, f/t chicks, f/t rat pups, and probably several more things I can't remember right now  ALL of it raw. Never give any kind of cooked bone- that's what splinters and causes internal damage. Only cooked bone. Raw bone is much more flexible, and ferrets are built to deal with it! |
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Post by pastelsummer on Apr 14, 2010 18:13:42 GMT -5
hmmm ok that is good to know. ;D LoL I need to figure out how to do this then within my budget we butcher our own beef so that won't be to hard and i can do chicken livers hearts and gizzerds from the store pretty cheap. Would that cover it? I MIGHT get dh to let me but frozen mice but only if i keep them away from the reg meat. LoL
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Post by sherrylynne on Apr 16, 2010 23:17:13 GMT -5
Unfortunately, ferrets need a minimum of 3 different proteins, like beef, chicken, pork, turkey, lamb, just to name a few. And they need various cuts of each, just to cover their basic needs. As well as organ meat(liver, kidney, spleen, whatever you can get for that). Besides the bones about 4 days a week. They can eat bone from any animal chicken sized or smaller, along with some neck bones(turkey, some pork), some tail bones.
Don't forget- most ferrets really don't eat all that much. My males eat maybe 2-4 oz per day! Not a lot of meat. Muscle meat tend toward the lower end of that ratio, bone in to the higher.
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