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Post by Celene on Mar 5, 2015 11:12:32 GMT -5
Rats/mice (you can buy feeders frozen from a pet store). Cornish game hen, quail, smaller birds with smaller bones. Rabbits. You can also smash up the wings a little with a cleaver to let the marrow out and make it a little bit easier to eat.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 11:16:51 GMT -5
Thanks Celene, I will pick up a Cornish hen for her tonight and try to find some mice. We don't have a pet store where I live. So I may need to travel out of town this weekend to get some. Have weasel, will travel.
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Post by Celene on Mar 5, 2015 11:42:55 GMT -5
The best "starter" bones from the hen are the ribs and wing tips. You can cut the ribs individually to make little weasel "french fries". Although if your mini fuzzy is wild she should already be able to just dig in to meat.
Does she have a name?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 13:47:46 GMT -5
also bitbyter said----insects.
This is from wikipedia: Exoskeletons contain chitin; the addition of calcium carbonate makes them harder and stronger.[citation needed]
so you might can get calcium from bugs' skeletons-
I would not feed slugs because of lungworms--- unless you can find documentation that they r not affected by this disease
you could catch them alive look under old pieces of plywood and in brush piles if snow has not covered everything
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 13:52:58 GMT -5
a would be interesting investigation sorry, did not take into account of weather
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 20:19:43 GMT -5
So didn't find a Cornish hen in town, but did find a live feeder mouse. Trying to upload the video of her first kill now. At first she wanted to be friends with the mouse, then not so much. She killed it but not interested in eating it. Of course she may not be hungry right now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 11:53:27 GMT -5
Well she had half of the mouse eaten this morning.
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Post by Celene on Mar 6, 2015 13:45:11 GMT -5
Well after all, she is a wild animal. Unlike (some) ferrets, they actually have instincts!
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Post by Heather on Mar 6, 2015 13:48:43 GMT -5
One thing to remember too, she's very tiny. Her dietary needs are going to be substantially less. ciao
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 9:00:50 GMT -5
So I think the little weasel has some kind of worms. I am taking a fecal sample to the vet today to do a float. I want to get this taken care of for her before we release her. She certainly is acting healthy though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 9:07:52 GMT -5
Her name is Izzy. We called her that because when we first found her we didn't know what she was. Izzy a ferret? Izzy a weasel? Izzy a male or female? The name just kind of stuck.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 11:44:10 GMT -5
curious about the worms
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 16:10:15 GMT -5
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Post by Celene on Mar 9, 2015 20:11:52 GMT -5
Izzy a sweetie? Why yes she is!!
So adorable.
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Post by Heather on Mar 9, 2015 20:24:53 GMT -5
She's adorable ciao
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