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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 9:13:54 GMT -5
Good Morning, I talked with Paul, he will do whole prey. We have a pet store in town, should we buy a few small live mice? What else do you mean by whole prey? We didn't go to the store yesterday, we are going today. So, I will make soupie for this evening. As I understand you, I will be introducing new meats thru a soup. Pork/turkey/beef will be added to chicken livers, with eggshell and ground into the soupie. Chicken hearts will not be added. I will post some pictures of a puppy pad with poop. I'll try to get a picture and name for each poop. The feeding den: Wynstan went crazy trying to get the drummettes off the hook. Today, after the grocery store trip, I will hang some chicken wings and smash them a little bit. Their food station is right next to the laundry room, so I will keep all food limited right to that area. I usually have a bowl next to their bed, upstairs. Should I remove that also? I'm okay with stashing, it seems to fill an instinctual need for them. Paul gets upset with the waste, and it's springtime, so we will have bugs soon. I'll just do more frequent reconnaissance missions. Thanks for the book tip, I'll order it for her kindle. Tay is a brain, super smart. She graduated from the Navy Nuclear School and now is at UCF studying this new program. I suspect she will change that major also. She loves to cook, and I wouldn't be surprised if she goes to Culinary School. We'll see. I love AA pretzels, there are none closeby, so I have learned to make pretzels at home. They are very easy to make and the fun thing is that they look so professional.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 15:21:03 GMT -5
We went to the grocery stores today, and found a few unusual (for our area) items. I found beef liver, pork neckbones, turkey breast fillets, pork sirloin chops, chicken livers, chicken wings and what I consider unusual for us, pork brains and pigs feet. I did see some beef tongue, (white) tripe and duck, but Paul was with me, and the cost was outrageous. The tongue, tripe and duck were each around $20. I will pick them up, if you think it would be beneficial. I'll make a chicken soupie tonight, and try to catch some poop pictures.
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Post by katt on Mar 12, 2014 0:07:32 GMT -5
I talked with Paul, he will do whole prey. We have a pet store in town, should we buy a few small live mice? What else do you mean by whole prey?I would start with dead mice rather than live. Sometimes letting them hunt will entice them to eat their prize, but other times recognizing the mouse as food makes them more inclined to hunt it. Either approach works, there's not really much way to judge ahead of time what will work best for each ferret. My reason for suggesting killed mice first is bc I know you are squeamish. Hubby is okay with it - is he okay stepping in to finish the job on a botched kill? Here is a thread showing a good, quick kill: www.holisticferret60.proboards.com/thread/13332/live-huntAnd a thread showing how to perform cervical dislocation if you have to step in: www.holisticferret60.proboards.com/thread/13333/perform-cervical-dislocationI suggest having Paul watch those first. Let him know as well that there is a learning curve, so the first 1-2 hunts might take a little longer but if they don't pick it up quickly, they should not be allowed to hunt. If you can convince him to create a forum account too I could walk him through live feeding more easily. Any pet store that sells snakes should carry frozen mice and rats. Frozen prey is called f/t (frozen/thawed). You can thaw them out in the bags and feed the killed mice (or rats). Generally when introducing whole prey, you may need to do some cutting open and cutting up. Some will take to it right away if you cut the belly open and drizzle in some salmon oil. If that doesn't work, then you'll want to get some pinky mice and cut them up and gradually increase in size and prey age. Being young, it shouldn't take them too long. Keep in mind, pieces may get stashed since you free roam. Consider all of the above and decide what you want to do and I will help. I never push anyone to do whole prey. I will tell you all about the wonderful benefits, and how good it is for them. They can have a perfectly well balanced diet on frankenprey too though, so if it isn't something you are comfortable or can get comfortable with, don't feel like you are letting them miss out or anything. Whole prey is wonderful for them, and live prey is great enrichment for their cunning little minds as well as being (with a good hunter) even More humane than the CO2 method used on f/t prey. (Don't worry though, CO2 killed prey is just fine). I won't try to talk you out of it, esp if Paul is willing to do the "dirty work," but I won't push you on it either. If you want to start with live prey, that is perfectly fine. If you want to start with f/t prey that is fine too. Both methods have different benefits. Just let me know which so I know how to best instruct. We didn't go to the store yesterday, we are going today. So, I will make soupie for this evening. As I understand you, I will be introducing new meats thru a soup. Pork/turkey/beef will be added to chicken livers, with eggshell and ground into the soupie. Chicken hearts will not be added.Yes. No heart in the soup because they should be getting regular meals of it since it's something they already eat on their own. Soup to introduce new meats, and to get them back on the ball with liver. I will post some pictures of a puppy pad with poop. I'll try to get a picture and name for each poop.Sounds good. The feeding den: Wynstan went crazy trying to get the drummettes off the hook. Today, after the grocery store trip, I will hang some chicken wings and smash them a little bit. Their food station is right next to the laundry room, so I will keep all food limited right to that area. I usually have a bowl next to their bed, upstairs. Should I remove that also?It's up to you if you want to remove the bowl, but seeing as how you are concerned about stashing (I would be too if I free roamed lol) I would probably suggest removing it. If you take it away and find they are stashing stuff say under the bed anyways, you can always put it back to give them somewhere to put their stashes (which they may or may not agree to do). And Go Wynstan! (dance) Definitely smash a wing up more and see how they like it. I'm okay with stashing, it seems to fill an instinctual need for them. Paul gets upset with the waste, and it's springtime, so we will have bugs soon. I'll just do more frequent reconnaissance missions. Oh, okay then. lol Yeah bugs can be a problem. The big thing is to check known stashes frequently. You'll learn to follow your nose pretty quickly. Thanks for the book tip, I'll order it for her kindle. Tay is a brain, super smart. She graduated from the Navy Nuclear School and now is at UCF studying this new program. I suspect she will change that major also. She loves to cook, and I wouldn't be surprised if she goes to Culinary School. We'll see. I love AA pretzels, there are none closeby, so I have learned to make pretzels at home. They are very easy to make and the fun thing is that they look so professional.I want to try making our own pretzels some day. I love cooking and baking, it's just so time consuming. You think your daughter won't follow through with the nurse anesthetist track? Bummer. That's what one of my cousins is shooting for right now. He's a paramedic with 3 kids, works 2 jobs, and is going to school full time. No clue how he does it. I worked through undergrad and it just about killed me - and I don't have kids! Is Tay short for something? It's pretty. A classmate's daughter is named Taviah and they call her Tae for short.
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Post by katt on Mar 12, 2014 0:13:44 GMT -5
We went to the grocery stores today, and found a few unusual (for our area) items. I found beef liver, pork neckbones, turkey breast fillets, pork sirloin chops, chicken livers, chicken wings and what I consider unusual for us, pork brains and pigs feet. I did see some beef tongue, (white) tripe and duck, but Paul was with me, and the cost was outrageous. The tongue, tripe and duck were each around $20. I will pick them up, if you think it would be beneficial. I'll make a chicken soupie tonight, and try to catch some poop picture. Nice! (dance) Definitely get your hands on some of that pork brain! Brain is super nutritious, high in taurine, and falls under the "other organs" category - so you could do brain and liver and fill in other organs as you find them. Beef tongue is great, super high in taurine - it counts as a muscle meat. Duck is fantastic, nice and fatty meat and good sized bones (the larger ones need some smashing). Tripe...don't bother. The white stuff is absolutely worthless - the nutrients have all been bleached out. The green stuff smells horrendous and they almost never touch it. The original thought behind feeding trip was to help replace the stomach contents of prey, but we now know that they rarely eat the GI tract of prey anyways - so there's nothing to replace. I'm sure there's plenty of good nutrients and such in green tripe, but like I said you'll be hard pressed to convince them to even go near it, they don't need it, and it costs an arm and a leg. And it stinks to high heavens. Sooo why bother? Beef liver is great, it's good to have variety within each category. Let me know how soupies went!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 11:09:12 GMT -5
Hello, I hope that you are feeling better today. (wave) I will be doing Whole Prey. The benefits are too good, to pass up. Paul is very enthusiastic about the idea, I will have him watch the video, read this post and we can let him post to you, so that he knows the best and most humane way to follow thru on this. I did try pinky's once, it didn't go over well, but that was awhile ago. Besides mice, what other whole prey should they try? I'm not sure that I could handle my guys eating baby bunnies or Guinea Pigs. Hopefully, mice will be enough. I pulled the drummettes from the cage, and no one had touched them. Last night, I hung a wing and this morning, it was still there. I'll keep working on that. I'm going to pop into the store again and pick up the tonque and duck. Given the size of them, once I cut them up and freeze everything, I will have enough for six months. I did buy the brains, I'm curious to see what they think of those. I'm very happy to skip the tripe, I had a stepfather who would make Menudo, gosh that stuff stunk! Soupies went quite well. Roamy was on the counter, while I was making the soupie and I kept cutting off big chunks and handing them to him. After I made the soup, he ate four or five spoon fulls. Which was alot, considering that he filled up on chicken chunks first. Both Wynstan and Juliet ate a good amount of soupie and Mika was so funny, she was eating the soupie and got a chunk that the Magic Bullet missed. She stood straight up and spit the chunk out, and then war danced around the bowl. She eats chunks all the time, I don't know why this time, it spooked her. I put two bowls of soupie out, I only used one liver and one and a half chicken thigh (of course, eggshell powder) and both bowls are almost empty this morning. Tay is short for Taylor Scott Hoffmann. Our family tradition is to use the names of female relatives who's names have not been passed on. Taylor is my middle name and the name of a long line of ancestors on my Mothers side, and Scott is from my Mother in Law's side of the family. Of course, thru out school, Tay always ended up in the boys groups. This morning, I was able to get a picture of a poop that Juliet obligingly left in a corner (not on a puppy pad), I will post poop pictures, in a group poop post.
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Post by katt on Mar 12, 2014 17:57:20 GMT -5
Hello, I hope that you are feeling better today. (wave)I feel MUCH better today, thanks! Still not 100% but I slept most of the day yesterday and that helped a lot. The last week of tests just really destroyed my immune system. :/ I will be doing Whole Prey. The benefits are too good, to pass up. Paul is very enthusiastic about the idea, I will have him watch the video, read this post and we can let him post to you, so that he knows the best and most humane way to follow thru on this. I did try pinky's once, it didn't go over well, but that was awhile ago. Besides mice, what other whole prey should they try? I'm not sure that I could handle my guys eating baby bunnies or Guinea Pigs. Hopefully, mice will be enough.Oh fantastic! (dance) Other whole prey mostly includes rats, guinea pigs, and whole chicks - but those are mostly for treats. Mice alone are great. Rats are good but....to say they smell would be an understatement. You really have to remove the GI tract or the smell is horrendous, doing that cuts down the smell a LOT though. You should be able to get f/t rats from any pet store that carries snakes if that's something you want to offer. RodentPro is a great source for whole prey too. You will LOVE whole prey poops btw. Best poops ever. So clean! I pulled the drummettes from the cage, and no one had touched them. Last night, I hung a wing and this morning, it was still there. I'll keep working on that.lol Little brats. You don't have to keep hanging them for now if you don't want to deal with the waste. Once they get to eating bigger chunks and start on bones they should start to eat eat you hang up. Nothing wrong with continuing to offer it though either, you never know what they will decide to try one day. I'm going to pop into the store again and pick up the tonque and duck. Given the size of them, once I cut them up and freeze everything, I will have enough for six months. I did buy the brains, I'm curious to see what they think of those.Mix some into the soup. You can try a little plain to and see what they think. They may not take to it plain right off the bat though. But like I said, you never know with these guys. I'm very happy to skip the tripe, I had a stepfather who would make Menudo, gosh that stuff stunk! Soupies went quite well. Roamy was on the counter, while I was making the soupie and I kept cutting off big chunks and handing them to him. After I made the soup, he ate four or five spoon fulls. Which was alot, considering that he filled up on chicken chunks first. Both Wynstan and Juliet ate a good amount of soupie and Mika was so funny, she was eating the soupie and got a chunk that the Magic Bullet missed. She stood straight up and spit the chunk out, and then war danced around the bowl. She eats chunks all the time, I don't know why this time, it spooked her. I put two bowls of soupie out, I only used one liver and one and a half chicken thigh (of course, eggshell powder) and both bowls are almost empty this morning.Good boy! Next time, try giving him little chinks of liver instead of chicken meat. Mika's reaction is hilarious! What a little spaz! hahaha So cute! Increase the amount of liver in the soup with each meal until they start to seem hesitant. As soon as they start to balk a bit, give them a few meals or so to adjust to that amount of liver. As the soup becomes more liver than chicken, you can start to cut back the number of liver soup meals. When that happens let me know, and instead of liver soup on those days, we will use those soup days to start to intro new meats. Whatever you want to try next is fine. Turkey is similar to chicken and is usually accepted quickly. Pork is a good non-poultry meat. Tay is short for Taylor Scott Hoffmann. Our family tradition is to use the names of female relatives who's names have not been passed on. Taylor is my middle name and the name of a long line of ancestors on my Mothers side, and Scott is from my Mother in Law's side of the family. Of course, thru out school, Tay always ended up in the boys groups.Taylor is a pretty name. I love naming traditions. In my family the first names are all one letter, or boys one letter and girls another. I'm trying to convince Shane to follow tradition with the letter thing, but he thinks it's too limiting. I have time to work on him.... *scheming face* Middle names are typically the name of some relative or other. I like that tradition, but there aren't too many people in my family I want to name my kids after... and there's so much potential for hurt feelings I feel like. With MY family anyways. *rolls eyes* Oh well. MY kids, MY names. Well...and Shane's. This morning, I was able to get a picture of a poop that Juliet obligingly left in a corner (not on a puppy pad), I will post poop pictures, in a group poop post. Great! If you don't post them here, at least give me the link here pretty please or I might miss them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 11:37:54 GMT -5
Good Morning, I'm so happy to hear that you are feeling better. A couple of sites lately have touted Marshmellows for a sore throat. If you try it, let me know if it's true. Seems kind of weird to me, but who knows?
Paul checked out the videos, he's pretty enthusiastic about the whole (pun intended) idea. We'll start with mice. He's even talking about breeding them now.
Yesterday was chicken chunks and soupies. It went quite well. This morning, we did Turkey soupies and everyone ate chunks, as I was making the soupie. I haven't seen Mika this morning, (she had a late night and is sleeping in), but everyone ate the turkey soupie. Wynstan had to have a little dabbed on his nose, but he ate quite alot after I put him on my lap and fed him with the spoon. Juliet ate the most and was rather annoyed that she couldn't stash any soupie. I used a liver and a half in the soup. No one would take a liver chunk. I suspect Mika will, she had liver alone, as a baby and would eat quite alot of liver at night. I haven't had to put any FDR out for the last two days. Juliet and Wynstan did beg and receive half of a NV raw boost bite, they ran off and stashed it, so I don't know that they even ate any.
Last night I cut up a chicken leg quarter and Wynstan happily stashed all the bones. Roamy just ran by me, with one of Wynstan's bones. Wynstan is following him now, looking concerned.
I did get a picture of a Wynstan poop, it looked just like Juliet's. I haven't caught Roamy or Mika yet, and I want to know what poop belongs to whom.
Mika had to have a bath yesterday. Paul left the door opened, while he was "standing up" and Mika flew down the hall, jumped on the tub and straight into the toilet. Paul yelled, she jumped out and ran back down the hall. Needless to say, she got a bath.
Tomorrow I will try two livers in the soup.
Your Spring Break is flying by, I hope you have something fun planned for the weekend. Thank again, (wave) Stef.
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Post by katt on Mar 13, 2014 17:10:51 GMT -5
Good Morning, I'm so happy to hear that you are feeling better. A couple of sites lately have touted Marshmellows for a sore throat. If you try it, let me know if it's true. Seems kind of weird to me, but who knows?That is half myth half truth. Marshmallows used to be made out of marshmallow root, which helped with sore throats and other maladies. Now days it's just sugar and glycerin. Some people still claim it helps. The gelatin *may* coat the throat and soothe it, but sugar isn't great to eat when you are sick so even though it works for some people, it's also a trade off. Here's a little internet article on it from a quick google search. I read a much cooler and more scientific article once but I can't remember where it was... www.greenideareviews.com/2012/09/12/eating-marshmallows-to-soothe-a-sore-throat-review-does-it-work/Paul checked out the videos, he's pretty enthusiastic about the whole (pun intended) idea. We'll start with mice. He's even talking about breeding them now. Ooohh exciting! (dance) (BTW I LOVE how much you love puns, I am ALL about word puns and corny jokes! I get a lot of eye rolls... ROFL) That is so great. Breeding mice is where it's at IMO, I really miss being able to breed mice. I haven't decided if I will do it when we go to Seattle or not though, it does take some work and they do smell if you don't clean the cages often enough. Definitely cost effective if you do it right though. Aspen bedding is $10 for a 3 cubic foot bag, lasts ages. Natural, homemade diet. Much cheaper ($20 for several months vs $10 for ~1 week) and healthier. www.naturalrodent.proboards.com/thread/1/natural-mouse-dietInfo on breeding: www.naturalrodent.proboards.com/thread/19/breeding-miceCare: www.naturalrodent.proboards.com/thread/4/mouse-facts-care-sheetEasy, cheap Breeding Rack: www.naturalrodent.proboards.com/thread/86/easy-breeding-binsNot showin in pics, but I got some WalMart sterlite shelves that I put the bins on. It worked great for me. Yesterday was chicken chunks and soupies. It went quite well. This morning, we did Turkey soupies and everyone ate chunks, as I was making the soupie. I haven't seen Mika this morning, (she had a late night and is sleeping in), but everyone ate the turkey soupie. Wynstan had to have a little dabbed on his nose, but he ate quite alot after I put him on my lap and fed him with the spoon. Juliet ate the most and was rather annoyed that she couldn't stash any soupie. I used a liver and a half in the soup. No one would take a liver chunk. I suspect Mika will, she had liver alone, as a baby and would eat quite alot of liver at night.That is great! So they all ate the turkey chunks? If so, start giving them at Least one meal a week of turkey chunks to keep them familiar with it. Use the soup to start introducing say pork or something new instead. As soon as they accept chunks of something, add it into the rotation for the chunk meals. BTW I think you mentioned this so I didn't mention it, but just in case - since you mentioned their poops are soft, sprinkle powdered egg shell over their chunks as well as in their soup. Increase how much you give until you start getting nice poops. I expect them to be a bit softer and probably dark after the soup though since we are working on liver. I haven't had to put any FDR out for the last two days. Juliet and Wynstan did beg and receive half of a NV raw boost bite, they ran off and stashed it, so I don't know that they even ate any.Good! Last night I cut up a chicken leg quarter and Wynstan happily stashed all the bones. Roamy just ran by me, with one of Wynstan's bones. Wynstan is following him now, looking concerned.haha Peer pressure is half the battle! That is good. Try hand feeding them some bits of marrow. Once they learn it's edible, marrow is like nutritious candy for ferrets. Get a meat mallet or similar and smash the crap out of a wing or other bone - make it nice and mangled. Then cut the pulpy mass up into whatever size chunks they are currently accepting. Try hand feeding some of the bony pulpy chunks and see what they think. I did get a picture of a Wynstan poop, it looked just like Juliet's. I haven't caught Roamy or Mika yet, and I want to know what poop belongs to whom.
Mika had to have a bath yesterday. Paul left the door opened, while he was "standing up" and Mika flew down the hall, jumped on the tub and straight into the toilet. Paul yelled, she jumped out and ran back down the hall. Needless to say, she got a bath.Cool. Uh oh, naughty girl! My boys broke the record for most baths this year within a few months. We had a few vet trips for Des and they kept peeing in the carrier (which they normally never do, but I woke them up and went straight to vets bc I didn't have time to let them potty first) so they got baths. Then Kenai got poop or pee on himself multiple times bc of potty accidents (me trying to get him in the box before he pottied on the floor), and then somehow perfume or something spilled on one of their beds and they reeked of perfume. I was worried about EO's so they both got shampooed that time (usually I only use oatmeal conditioner, no soap). Brats. Tomorrow I will try two livers in the soup. Let me know how it goes! Your Spring Break is flying by, I hope you have something fun planned for the weekend. Thank again, (wave) Stef.My plans are to get through some studying since I'm behind on micro and we have a test the Friday we get back, and I am super behind in Neuro which is absurdly difficult. And then I want to finish my non school related book I started over break. It's just a teen book so a quick, easy read - just need the time to read it. lol I want to see Divergent when it comes out though, so I wanted to get through the book first. I love fantasy, and I'm still a sucker for teen fiction and fantasy books. lol They make for easy reads when time is limited too. I still need to finish book 4 of Game of Thrones too, but that one's going to take more time. Book 4 is sooo boring compared to the others, but important stuff happens so I refuse to skip it. haha
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Post by katt on Mar 13, 2014 17:12:08 GMT -5
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Post by katt on Mar 14, 2014 13:05:27 GMT -5
Just checking in
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2014 16:07:38 GMT -5
Hello, is it Friday already? This week has flown by. I've been spring cleaning all week and today was the dining room. Juliet had nested in the sideboard and this strange smell suddenly was in the dining room. I had to take the back of the sideboard off, and you wouldn't believe all the treasures, I found. Juliet is quite displeased with me, but heavens sakes, they are free range, so I don't think its too selfish to have one room that is just for Human entertaining. That's interesting about the marshmellows, but I love them and even if they won't make a sore throat feel better, they are still fun to eat once in awhile. We did well with the turkey, everyone ate a satisfying amount. I left a bowl of livers out, last night and no one touched them. I'll keep offering them, on my lap with the spoon. Usually everyone will try something that way. Wynstan got pretty hungry around brunch time and dinner was not defrosted yet. I gave him some duck,duck,goose and suddenly Mika and Juliet showed up and had a snack also. I will work on the marrow, with everyone. We use to be able to buy marrow in the grocery stores, I haven't seen it around here, but I will ask around at the grocery stores. Funny thing about the poops, they use to be dark brown and soft. This week they have been light brown. I'm still working on pictures. Tonight is a little turkey soup, tomorrow I will try two livers in the soup and the muscle meat will be cornish game hen. Mika continues to be a little troublemaker. I moved a big wicker basket that holds onion and potatoes, it's now close to the garbage can. I lifted the lid today, to throw something away and Mika looked up at me, from inside the can. and I'm missing six potatoes. After I finish this post, I have to go hunting for the potatoes. Wynstan went for his first walk today, big bushy tail and great excitement. He's so goofy and cute. Neuro sounds tough good luck with that. You're so smart, you'll do fine. I'd like to see Divergent too. I just haven't figured out whether to read the book first or see the movie first. Thanks for all the info on mice. I'll show it to Paul, when he gets off his computer. This should be quite the project for him. We just have to keep me away from the mice, or else I will have the little guys in pajamas, eating cookies and listening to bedtime stories. Funny thing about puns, the French Court of Louix XIV found them to be a form of low humor. I love to read the memoirs that were written by the French nobles of the courts of Louis XIV/XV/XVI and sometimes wondered if there might have been some past life experience that made them so familiar. Who knows, maybe I was a scullery maid and enjoyed the low humor. (shy) :thankyou: Stef.
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Post by katt on Mar 15, 2014 17:25:33 GMT -5
lol I'll respond to your post more later - have to hit the books for a few hours. Just wanted to pop in and let you know I'll be on to post later today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 18:43:52 GMT -5
Hello (wave) All in all, a rather successful day. We went to Bowling Green for Lunch and stopped into an Asian market. I found Quail (dance) I did some more reading last night, and realized that I'm probably rushing proteins. This week we had chicken and turkey, and today was suppose to be CGH. I was rereading one of your posts, and realized that if I am rushing proteins, then I won't know if someone has a sensitivity to chicken or turkey or CGH. So, this morning was chicken chunks and we just got home, so I won't make soupies tonight. I will do soupies tomorrow morning. Am I right? Should I do continue doing chicken this week and then try turkey next week, when we are sure that no one has any chicken sensitivity? I'm sure you just love studying Neuro on a Saturday night. I did a little looking around to try to understand just what it is, and found that everyone is in agreement, that it's tough stuff. No one seems to enjoy that particular coursework. On the plus side, I found this app that might just make it easier. Almost sounds like something from Star Trek. Take a look: www.medgadget.com/?s=pocket+brain :thankyou: and talk to you tomorrow. Stef
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Post by katt on Mar 15, 2014 23:06:03 GMT -5
All in all, a rather successful day. We went to Bowling Green for Lunch and stopped into an Asian market. I found Quail (dance) I did some more reading last night, and realized that I'm probably rushing proteins. This week we had chicken and turkey, and today was suppose to be CGH. I was rereading one of your posts, and realized that if I am rushing proteins, then I won't know if someone has a sensitivity to chicken or turkey or CGH. So, this morning was chicken chunks and we just got home, so I won't make soupies tonight. I will do soupies tomorrow morning. Am I right? Should I do continue doing chicken this week and then try turkey next week, when we are sure that no one has any chicken sensitivity?Nice! (dance) Unless you suspect food sensitivity, allergies, or IBD you really shouldn't need to worry. IF they react to something, you can go back a bit and trial proteins. But they are young and healthy and haven't had any issues thus far so I really wouldn't worry. Keep trying the new proteins. I'm sure you just love studying Neuro on a Saturday night. I did a little looking around to try to understand just what it is, and found that everyone is in agreement, that it's tough stuff. No one seems to enjoy that particular coursework. On the plus side, I found this app that might just make it easier. Almost sounds like something from Star Trek. Working on Neuro and Micro - Micro mostly. We have a test on Friday. No rest for the weary. Can't wait for summer! lol Micro's not bad, it is actually really interesting, it's just (like everything) a LOT of information to cram into our brains. Thanks for the app, I'll check it out. The big issue with school is there are a ton of resources, but just not enough time to use them all. lol I need to figure something out for neuro though bc it just doesn't want to stick in my brain. *sign*
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Post by katt on Mar 15, 2014 23:15:58 GMT -5
Hello, is it Friday already? This week has flown by. I've been spring cleaning all week and today was the dining room. Juliet had nested in the sideboard and this strange smell suddenly was in the dining room. I had to take the back of the sideboard off, and you wouldn't believe all the treasures, I found. Juliet is quite displeased with me, but heavens sakes, they are free range, so I don't think its too selfish to have one room that is just for Human entertaining.Haha! I'm jealous, I'd love to do a Spring Clean. We did a little cleaning today, but nowhere near the deep clean I'd like to do. Oh well, when we move out I guess. LOL That's interesting about the marshmellows, but I love them and even if they won't make a sore throat feel better, they are still fun to eat once in awhile.I'm a S'mores addict... We did well with the turkey, everyone ate a satisfying amount. I left a bowl of livers out, last night and no one touched them. I'll keep offering them, on my lap with the spoon. Usually everyone will try something that way. Wynstan got pretty hungry around brunch time and dinner was not defrosted yet. I gave him some duck,duck,goose and suddenly Mika and Juliet showed up and had a snack also.Keep working on the liver soup. They'll get there. They are just being spoiled little brats. haha Feel free to offer them frozen meats btw! It's good to mix up meal presentation - keeps things interesting for them. My boys like meatcilces, especially mouseicles! Frozen, warmed, thawed, room-temp, whole, ground, soup, live...the more variety the more interesting for them! I will work on the marrow, with everyone. We use to be able to buy marrow in the grocery stores, I haven't seen it around here, but I will ask around at the grocery stores.No need to buy any special marrow - they need to learn to eat the bones around the marrow too. Just smash the bones up super duper well (mallet, meat mallet, hammer, ulu knife, meat cleaver) and slice up the resulting pulp into familiar sized chunks. Funny thing about the poops, they use to be dark brown and soft. This week they have been light brown. I'm still working on pictures. On raw poops will vary widely depending on what they eat. Poultry (esp chicken, and turkey) poops are much lighter. Beef and other red meat poops are dark. Organ and heart poops are super dark, and typically soft due to the high blood content of the food. Mika continues to be a little troublemaker. I moved a big wicker basket that holds onion and potatoes, it's now close to the garbage can. I lifted the lid today, to throw something away and Mika looked up at me, from inside the can. and I'm missing six potatoes. After I finish this post, I have to go hunting for the potatoes. Silly Girl! You might consider keeping the onions somewhere else that she can't reach as they are toxic to pets if they ingest any. Wouldn't want to risk her swallowing some onion juices when she sinks her teeth in to stash it. Potatoes can cause blockages too. So perhaps a weight for the top of the basket? :/ Wynstan went for his first walk today, big bushy tail and great excitement. He's so goofy and cute.Lucky boy! I haven't taken my boys out in ages. The weather here has been...unusual, and our schedules are too busy. We let them out whenever we are home, but I miss going on walks. I'd like to see Divergent too. I just haven't figured out whether to read the book first or see the movie first.ALWAYS read the book first! Especially the teenager ones, bc they almost always butcher the movies, and then you either won't want to read the book and/or the books will be ruined. Thanks for all the info on mice. I'll show it to Paul, when he gets off his computer. This should be quite the project for him. We just have to keep me away from the mice, or else I will have the little guys in pajamas, eating cookies and listening to bedtime stories. Funny thing about puns, the French Court of Louix XIV found them to be a form of low humor. I love to read the memoirs that were written by the French nobles of the courts of Louis XIV/XV/XVI and sometimes wondered if there might have been some past life experience that made them so familiar. Who knows, maybe I was a scullery maid and enjoyed the low humor. (shy)Interesting! lol
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