Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 16:38:54 GMT -5
Hey, I read the sticky here about taurine and it said that the animals will get a lot of it through regular meals and that too much taurine can cause problems in omnivores but they're not sure about carnivores. And I'm worried that 500mg of taurine supplement a day would be too much?
At one point it says, "When feeding a raw diet to your ferrets, you can expect them to receive their taurine in largest concentrations from hearts, brains, and dark muscle meats like thighs." If thighs are high in taurine as well as some dark meats should I still give 500mg taurine on days I feed him..say a chicken leg? Which according to the thread is 3780 mg per kg? I mean obviously a chicken leg isn't a kg, let alone even a pound. It's probably several grams though, and that still means a lot of taurine.
Then, I read this, "I know many people use the NOW brand of taurine powder. Do you need to suuplement 500mg per day? No, definitely not, not unless your ferret has a diagnosed heart condition that may benefit from higher than usual taurine levels. Aim for over a period of a week to give about 1400mg – which is 200mg per day if you want to balance it daily – but in reality, having it balanced with every meal is probably overkill." Which really confuses me considering I've been told several places to give 500mg taurine supplement a day?
I'm so confused. Help?
At one point it says, "When feeding a raw diet to your ferrets, you can expect them to receive their taurine in largest concentrations from hearts, brains, and dark muscle meats like thighs." If thighs are high in taurine as well as some dark meats should I still give 500mg taurine on days I feed him..say a chicken leg? Which according to the thread is 3780 mg per kg? I mean obviously a chicken leg isn't a kg, let alone even a pound. It's probably several grams though, and that still means a lot of taurine.
Then, I read this, "I know many people use the NOW brand of taurine powder. Do you need to suuplement 500mg per day? No, definitely not, not unless your ferret has a diagnosed heart condition that may benefit from higher than usual taurine levels. Aim for over a period of a week to give about 1400mg – which is 200mg per day if you want to balance it daily – but in reality, having it balanced with every meal is probably overkill." Which really confuses me considering I've been told several places to give 500mg taurine supplement a day?
I'm so confused. Help?
Yeah that's the article I read. I know it's water soluble but it says on there that there is research showing it can build up kinda in omnivores? But they weren't too sure about obligate carnivores. And I just wanted to you know, make sure that it wouldn't cause my baby boy problems. It also says at the bottom that you shouldn't have to supplement 500mg? Does that mean in addition to a diet that has weekly heart meals, or not at all?
We even drove 45 minutes away to an Asian market that apparently didn't exist. Our Asian market doesn't carry much. They have intestines, large bones, quail, whole ducks, duck tongues, and goat. That's pretty much it. No organs. We have no local butchers and at one of the stores I talked to one of their workers was planning on opening one in October. Actually, I think the closest butcher is about an hour away without traffic.