Oh no! I am sorry! I am glad you are feeling a bit better!
I knew he'd have to find something to be picky about!
Perhaps a few times a week, give him bone "meals" of just chopped up chicken wing, and turkey necks and such. Then at night/ in the morning (whichever you chose) leave the uneaten bones in, but add a little more muscle meat so he still gets enough. If you are looking at bone shears online, I would honestly recommend an ulu knife instead. Personal opinion, but it is much much more versatile! Even a cheap one will do!
www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&q=Ulu+knife&btnG=Google+Search#client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=Ulu+knife&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=shop:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wf&biw=1024&bih=578&fp=34b91cc4462aa6c1I use mine endlessly. You can use it to get thin, delicate slices (esp when it is nice and sharp lol), cut through skin, meat, etc; skin items cleanly (say if there is too much skin on a chicken or something and you want to take the skin off for the meat underneath), and chop or crush bones.
With poultry shears, you can cut the bones, and it takes some amount of force to do so. An Ulu knife allows you to cut, chop, slice, pulverize, etc all in one, and is muchm, much easier to use! I have a big wooden chopping block and I lay a chicken wing down and just pound it with the Ulu blade. I can do it once with a good, firm chop, and cut a bone or neck in two. Or I can use repetitive chops to completely pulverize the bone (mixing it in with the meat in the process to make it more appealing, and harder to avoid). Oftentimes, just exposing the marrow will motivate them to eat a lot more of the bone too. I always cut bones at least once or twice. so the marrow is exposed. I also alternate with pulverized wings and such. I chop chop chop until a chicken wing (or turkey neck) is jsut a pile of pulverized meat and bone all mostly in one sloppy piece, and toss it in like that. Koda
loved that when he ate chicken, and Kenai is loving it
now!
Ulu's are without a doubt, the most ingenious, effective, versatile cutting tools ever invented!
I bought a turkey neck and put some in his cage tonight with some other muscle meat. I shall see if it's gone tomorrow - my fear is that by putting it in with the muscle meat (chunky-cut pieces of fatty beef) that he will ignore it but I'm giving him a change to impress me haha. If he doesn't take to the turkey neck I shall cut it into smaller bits (I totally need to buy some poultry sheers been checking them out on eBay!!) and maybe put some egg with it (that's how I got him eating beef - he was very unsure about it at first and now he loves it)
Have you seen the threads around here on litter training? Sheryylynne has some good info on it. Cover everything with toys and bedding, and keep his litter box just a little dirty so he "remembers" what it is for.
Stick with it!
That is entirely up to you. If he is getting enough bones from other sources, it should be ok. Maybe give him an oxtail to gnaw on every now and then as a treat? Really though he doesn't need it if he is getting other sources of bone.
Hmmm....I have never heard of kangaroo meant! I had no idea people ate them!
They are so cute! lol I wish we had them around here...
I don't see why that would be a problem. Lean meat is good. Try just a little bit and see how he does. Watch his poops. If it is really dark meat, it may be that it is pretty rich (look at the richness of chicken vs say beef) and some ferrets have a hard time with too much of a rich meat. Chances are his poop will be quite a bit darker on the kangaroo if the meat is really dark (but then I could be wrong too of course, I don't know a whole lot about kangaroo meat) but if his poops get overly soft, I would limit how much he can have.
www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/kangaroo-meat-413596It looks like a very lean, high protein meat, so I think it could be potentially very good for him as long as it is not
too rich!
Oh good! If you can get whole items, that is really the best thing to do as, like I mentioned, it has the perfect balance of bone:meat:organ. If you choose to portion out the whole prey (like with a chicken! haha You would definitely need to unless it was tiny), I would remove the intestines (stomach, small and large intestine w/ rectum) as he will most likely not eat them. Leave the other organs though. Also, if you can get whole chicken, can you get whole other poultry? Like quail or game hen? They love feathers and making a mess of them!
Chicks are a great whole prey treat too if you are comfortable with that. Personally, I find chicks far cuter than mice, and I don't have a good source anyways, so I don't feed them. They are low in calcium being so young, but are usually loved by ferrets and so make a great treat-meal.
If you can get rabbit, that would be great! It is one of the best foods for them as it is a major part of their natural diet in the wild. If you can get it whole - even better! It may be a bit much for you to handle, but the heads are one of the most nutritious, and favored parts. Otherwise, even just meat would be great. Again, if you can get whole prey it is best, but remove the intestines if you can. If not, he will remove them for you and you might just have a smelly intestine pile to throw away later, when he has polished off the rest of it.
Also, (not trying to push the whole prey issue here, I swear!) I forget if you mentioned - would you be comfortable feeding
prekilled rodents? You can often order them frozen for snakes and such. They come already dead, and frozen and really don't look like cute-rodents any more as they get squished and distorted in the packaging/freezing process. If that is still not up your alley, that is absolutely fine. But I couldn't remember if we discussed
frozen rodents or not...
Very well, thank you!
I'm struggling to stay focused on school as I am pretty burnt out (last year! Then I graduate with my BS in Biology, and have a year off before applying to Med school. I'm ready for the year off to start). I also got a new fur brat! Koda now has a baby brother, Kenai! He is soo cute and they are getting along really well. I think Koda is happy to have a friend, and now he won't be lonely while I'm in class or at work! (As soon as they start staying in the same cage anyways! lol)
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Anyways you might want to just phase out the chicken for a few days and give him something else. Cornish Game Hen or Turkey might be good. I would mix a little beef or pork in too to give him something new. I'll have a better reply later when I can get on a computer. I didn't want to leave you hanging though.