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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 10:58:51 GMT -5
4/25 For both breakfast and dinner they got about 1oz bone in chicken and .5 oz or less of the rest of the beef heart we had thawed for the day.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 11:30:31 GMT -5
Dinner last night, they got 2oz chicken liver each mixed with a bit of beef fat. If they haven't finished their liver for breakfast it will stay in their dish until they finish most of it.
We will be going shopping this weekend for more options for them. We had used all of their game hen, and lamb in the previous 2 weeks.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 26, 2013 13:12:15 GMT -5
Alright Tonight when I get home I'll put everything together in a menu format and we can take a look to see what might need tweaking.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 26, 2013 20:37:32 GMT -5
Sunday 4/21: Breakfast - Boneless chicken about 1.5 oz each Dinner - Bone In chicken about 1 oz. .5 oz chicken heart .5 oz chicken liver each
Monday 4/22 Breakfast - Bone In chicken about 1.5 oz with .5 oz beef heart Dinner - 1oz bone in chicken .5oz beef heart .5oz chicken liver
Tuesday 4/23 Breakfast 2oz beef kidney
Thursday 4/25 For both breakfast and dinner they got about 1oz bone in chicken and .5 oz or less of the rest of the beef heart we had thawed for the day
Dinner last night, they got 2oz chicken liver each mixed with a bit of beef fat. If they haven't finished their liver for breakfast it will stay in their dish until they finish most of it.
Okay, looking at this, is there any particular reason you are still giving the organ and heart with the other meals?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2013 21:25:40 GMT -5
Added a bit to a few meals because we didn't have multiple protein sources this last week. Mixed in heart to give them a bit more than just chicken.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 29, 2013 9:07:49 GMT -5
Okay, I'd like you to grab another protein source for them. Pork, turkey, lamb, goat, whatever you can find. With the liver/kidney make sure they aren't getting more than about 2oz of each per ferret per week.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2013 12:54:27 GMT -5
We got them more gizzards this weekend, as well as a cornish game hen. They got 2oz of bone in game hen last night. Because of the small town we are in (in the middle of the desert) we don't have too many options, but for flexible options.
For pork, what would you recommend? Anything I have found is normally cured/salted/smoked/something and we don't want to give them anything with extra stuff added.
We can get lamb some times, but it is expensive and in small amounts (like the goose example from Easter).
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Post by Sherry on Apr 29, 2013 14:35:15 GMT -5
Pork steak(cheap fatty cut), pork button bones, rib ends, stewing pork, butt roast to name some of the cheaper cuts here. If all you can get is enhanced, you can soak it in fresh water for a few hours, rinse well. That will leach most of it out. What I usually do is buy a cheaper, larger roast. Hubby and I get half, other half is cut up for ferrets!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2013 21:12:46 GMT -5
We were able to do pork chops for them for a bit when they were on sale. Will look for something like that or a roast like you recommended and see what we can find.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 30, 2013 9:03:31 GMT -5
Since you are in a small town, do you have a butcher? When I was young, my dad used to take all slaughtered animals to the butcher to be cut/packaged. You *might* be able to buy the offcuts or meat trimmings from them for pet food. Or do you go to a larger town/city every so often? If so you may be able to stock up then.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2013 12:40:58 GMT -5
I've gone by our butches we have in the grocery stores to check for scraps, but the only thing I've found to help out was the beef fat I found once. If you don't catch them at just the right time they use their fat in the hamburger they make in house.
Other than that I didn't get much help from any of them when I went by at different times to see what they had for options.
We don't go to the bigger city too often, and not for food yet because we don't have a large freezer to handle bulk purchases.
I'll try to go by the store this afternoon to see if any of them have any sales we might have missed this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2013 16:13:01 GMT -5
Was able to find some options at the store but was expensive. Leg of lamb, pork steaks and unbleached beef tripe. So we have some flexible option for a bit. Have bone in chicken, game hen, lamb, tripe, pork, beef heart, kidney and liver as well as chicken gizzards, heart and liver.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 30, 2013 19:16:00 GMT -5
Okay, sounds like you are set With the tripe- you can buy green tripe in the grocers? All we can get here is white! Now, let's get a proper menu set up to make sure they are getting a balanced diet They'll need 8-9 consumable bone meals, 3-4 muscle meat meals(at least one of which must be heart), as well as 1 meal liver/organ. Are they all eating liver, kidney and heart with no problem? As in have you actually SEEN them all eating it? If so, then mix and match with adding these three with other meals. I've got a couple who will most definitely eat anything other than liver/kidney given a choice
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 9:25:04 GMT -5
They ear heart and kidney very well. Liver we have to kind of force their hand by giving it to them for their meal for dinner, and then leave it throughout the rest of the following day. They eventually eat it as they are hungry enough to do so.
The tripe I got says "raw honecomb" and it was a darker off-white or yellow rather than the bright white I've seen for the bleached tripe you had mentioned before.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 9:26:22 GMT -5
For the menu, are you writing one up based on the foods I mentioned we have right now, or are you wanting us to track what we feed them for the week again now that we have more options?
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