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Post by horse656 on May 30, 2010 8:44:07 GMT -5
lol. spoiled much what types of fish can you feed, because we can go fishing, so if its any type that would be awesome. i've also wanting to try them on egg, how should i try that with belle, since i had a small egg and put a bit on a plate and pebbles was like YUM, but belle was like... no thank you. picky eaters. and how often should i feed egg? is too often to much?
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Post by sherrylynne on May 30, 2010 16:10:16 GMT -5
For fish, the smaller, fresh water varieties are better. That's not to say mine don't get a treat of salmon every once in a while, but seldom. The larger the fish, the higher the level of toxins in them, unfortunately, especially mercury. I'd give it no more than once a week even so. A couple of mine adore raw smelts! Actually smelt is how I found out some ferrets WILL overeat if they really like the food Poor Lucrezia looked positively green after she gobbled up not only hers, but every other one she could reach With egg, if you feed it raw, I'd err on the side of caution and not give them more than one per ferret a week. It's still kind of up in the air over that one. Cooked they can have more often. Willow loves to share my hard boiled eggs with me!
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Post by horse656 on May 31, 2010 10:47:57 GMT -5
lol. cool. i gave them a treat of egg last night and Pebbles was all over it, literally, and the cage. she rolled the yolk off the plate and it was all of the cage. brat. i feel bad for my babies. i think their getting tired of the whole, chicken, beef, pork routine. so i'll see about ordering some other stuff from that place i mentioned. how do you feel about casey's hidden pantry, for their treats? and since they have like, liver hearts and other stuff in it would that be a "substitute" for the real thing? if they'll eat it.
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Post by horse656 on May 31, 2010 13:56:32 GMT -5
are egg shell ok for the ferrets to eat, because in some soup reciepes it calls for ground egg shell, but is it ok, just to let them have a hard boiled egg with the shell on?
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Post by sherrylynne on May 31, 2010 20:23:08 GMT -5
I'm really up in the air on cooked shell not powdered. Some have given it fine, but I'm paranoid(probably unecessarily) about the shell breaking sharper than it would uncooked. If you don't mind the mess, you can certainly give them the shell with the cracked egg. As for boiled, up to you
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Post by horse656 on Jun 1, 2010 15:06:02 GMT -5
mess? haha, that's their favorite thing to do. i gave them chicken with bone, so i don't know if they ate the bone or not.
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Post by sherrylynne on Jun 1, 2010 16:44:17 GMT -5
If they ate it, you'll likely find bits of bone left around. Do you feed them in the cage, or out of it? Just that it makes it easier to find the leftovers if it's in. And you'd certainly hear the crunching
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Post by horse656 on Jun 1, 2010 17:23:04 GMT -5
well i left in a hurry for school so yea, i didn't get to hear anything, i just checked and there were whole bones.
do you raise your own mice? if so, what age to you feed them to your ferrets? my mouse just had her litter.
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Post by sherrylynne on Jun 2, 2010 9:29:01 GMT -5
No I don't. I buy frozen whole prey. But you can feed any ages. Take a look through the breeding section, they'll give you a good idea. And don't forget- pinky mice are sort of the "candy" of the mouse ages Not a lot of calcium, etc, since the bones aren't much more than cartiledge yet, but they go crazy over them!
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Post by horse656 on Jun 3, 2010 14:33:05 GMT -5
ok. i'll check into getting frozen. were going to a farmers market on saturday, the one i told you about, so i'll see about getting emu, and stuff
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Post by sherrylynne on Jun 3, 2010 18:48:45 GMT -5
Let me know how they are doing. And whie you're at it, can you give me a brief rundown on exactly what they are eating now, and what size chunks? I could go back over your entire thread, but frankly- I'm too lazy
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Post by horse656 on Jun 4, 2010 14:06:49 GMT -5
lol. haha. right now, i just have them on pork. the chunks are about your index finger and thumb from both hands going to the knuckle... hope that wasn't confusing. so fairly large. i put liver in and someone ate it i haven't been able to try heart recently. i've had no luck on bones, except for the tips, but i can't exactly find those around here, unless i buy the whole chicken, or wings, but the wings most of the time generally don't have the tips on them.
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Post by sherrylynne on Jun 4, 2010 18:52:38 GMT -5
So they are at times getting chicken, too then Try using the wings, but section them, and cut the middle piece lengthwise between the bones, then cut those in half. If you can, also cut the drumette lengthwise to expose the marrow, and cut those in half. Just give them the wings for two or three days, they'll soon be champs at eating the bones! And, it's time to intro another meat to them. Turkey, beef, lamb, goat, just whatever you can get hold of for now. Do you have any asian/ethnic markets near you? Or any halal(Muslim) butchers? You can get all the odder meats from the ethnic markets, and lamb and goat really cheap at a halal butcher's.
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Post by horse656 on Jun 4, 2010 19:42:17 GMT -5
im not sure. im in Ontario, so probably. i've given them chicken wings for about a week and they still haven't eaten them. i chop them in half, short wise, for the ones with two bones, and i haven't chopped up the drum sticks. i just left them. so ill try chopping up the drum sticks that way. were going to a farmers market tomorrow, with this place there www.bearbrookfarm.com/ and they have some different stuff, so i'm going to check it out. they have some cheap (to me anyway. but probably not to my mom, since im not paying for it) food.
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Post by sherrylynne on Jun 4, 2010 21:56:06 GMT -5
Can you get cornish hen? The bones in those are easier for them to chew. Also- do they eat the meat OFF the bone, but leave the bone? Or do they not touch the chicken at all?
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