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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 0:50:50 GMT -5
Hi, I saw that the soupie recipe called for chicken hearts and liver... what I have on hand due to my anemia is BEEF liver and heart that my mum buys, but I hardly ever eat.
Is this okay for them? Or would it be better to go out and buy chicken organs? (It would be no problem to get, if anything I know my local asian market has them and I go often.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 1:07:33 GMT -5
Beef is a strong flavor and a lot of ferrets don't like it or have a hard time accepting it. For starting the switch I would use all chicken. In the future you can introduce beef.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 2:36:33 GMT -5
Thank you! I should be able to go to the store soon and get some, maybe even the butcher? I think I've read posts about people getting the organs for cheap at butchers, so it's worth a try.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 3:36:39 GMT -5
Mine are not keen on beef either, they prefer chicks, chickens, rabbits and mice. Plus, if they were in nature, beef wouldn't be a prey they would attack, lol, but you can try for sure.
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Post by Heather on Oct 30, 2014 13:21:44 GMT -5
Beef is fine for them and in fact beef heart is much higher in taurine than chicken. If your little one will eat beef (mine adore it) go for it. Chicken is a milder meat and often more readily accepted but there is no reason why you cannot use beef (I've done a couple of switches using beef). As for small prey being the meats that a ferret will eat if it were allowed to hunt.....Somewhere on the forum is a video of a polecat doing some serious work on a deer carcass. They are hunters but they're not against scavenging and if there was a beef carcass in the field they'd eat that as easily as anything else. Meat is meat in their vocabulary.
ciao
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Post by gfountain on Oct 30, 2014 14:08:44 GMT -5
Like Heather's ferts, mine absolutely love beef anything. If I give them a choice between proteins, they'll go for the beef first every time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 16:09:42 GMT -5
Mine eat beef heart. It's the only heart, other than those Tyson packs, that I can get at the moment.
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Post by bitbyter on Oct 30, 2014 16:58:05 GMT -5
Basically if it came from an animal, they can eat it.
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Post by msav on Oct 31, 2014 11:29:56 GMT -5
all of mine absolutely love beef. It is there non-bone in meat of choice.
BTW
Yesterday I gave them some lamb heart along with the chicken hearts. They went right for the Lamb first.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 11:16:34 GMT -5
Mine will eat any meat I give them when I first started feeding beef they would look at me as asking for something else. Now they love beef heart, kidney or mince/grinds. They nom right into it yet not so keeneon chicken heart hehe
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