Red meat is very high in Iron and Vitamin B.
They need one red meat meal a week. Beef liver is a great choice but beef is a strong flavor and may take some persuasion. Mine still aren't crazy about it.
Lamb is a red meat and with Spring coming up, it should go on sale soon.
Here are the guidelines for leaving raw food out:
Soups 8 hours,
chunks 12-24 hours
Bone in meats are good for 24 hours.
Whole prey can be up to 48.
So regardless of the raw stage you are at you can leave raw in all night.
*probably quiz question*
In theory a ferret will not touch meat that has gone bad. A starving ferret might but yours are well fed and you are fine leaving food out.
Oils ideally are Wild Salmon Oil. Grizzly brand Salmon oil is terrific. You want wild as opposed to farm salmon.
Olive oil can be used but most ferrets don't care for extra virgin olive oil, I can only use plain old Olive oil but I use the fish oil because it's not plant based.
You could also add a drop of egg or plain vegetable oil but I'd rather see you use Fish oil than vegetable oil.
I'm not aware on any pictures with the wing tip sliced but we should be having wings tomorrow and I'll cut one and take a picture for you.
I'm a visual learner also and know how that can help.
Can you please take a picture of Hermione and Ron from a dangling angle.
I want to see how they look from a full body angle.
What I'm looking for is to see if they are too thin. I don't think they are but it's nice to have that picture to look back on later and see the changes.
I also need their report card.
Ferret's name
Weight
Activity levels
Poop report
How much they are eating at a a meal.
Take a teaspoon and fill it with water or even peanut butter. Put it on a plate so that you can see approximately how much a teaspoon looks like. You'll develop an eye for this with time.
Watching them and seeing how much is offered and how much is gone from the plate will get easier.
We want to make sure that each one is getting a nice amount of food each day.
Remember with Spring coming, they will eat less and lose some weight. Don't worry about this coming from raw, it's part of their natural cycle. They're both young though so I wouldn't expect much weight loss and Ron especially should still be in his Tummy with Teeth stage, eating alot and growing so this Spring will be probably not find much of a change in weight.
A Ferret is considered too thin if you can feel their ribs but not see them.
They should not be so thin as to have a waistline.
Kibble Fed Ferrets are more pear shaped but you can still recognize a waistline.
*probable quiz question*
Once on raw, they become lean and muscular. Lean come first and then the muscles will develop as long as they have alot of time to run and play and use those muscles.
Their fur will change fast and you should see softer silkier fur before too long.
Then comes the Grape Kool-aid smell. When Mika was a baby, even her urine smelled like grapes.
Keller's ears still smell like Grape.
Not all Ferrents report that Grape smell but mine all had it.