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Post by Sherry on Mar 23, 2013 9:02:15 GMT -5
That was an interesting link! Weird insect.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2013 23:49:36 GMT -5
Hmmm... Learn something new! Never knew culled animals couldn't be fed, but I don't see the point to wasting the meat really. Most of the times they tend to dump them off after X number of sample animals have been sent away. Waste to me. I have been on hunting trips & poked around road kill enough to know what to look for, but diseases & injuries is really not much of a worry, as there is only the human flu or Canine Distemper virus to worry about in Australia with ferrets. As for parasites, also not been a big issue.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2013 20:37:29 GMT -5
Whoa, this is an old thread. I wanted to compile a little list of acceptable foods, but it looks like Phae's beaten me to the chase! Question though - is there a particular reason for no snakes? I wouldn't imagine I'd be plucking any snakes out of anywhere near me anytime soon, but how come it's not an appropriate protein source?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2013 6:02:46 GMT -5
Snake would be suitable. But i know too many who'll attempt live snakes or kill pythons
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2013 7:14:23 GMT -5
EDIT - wait, I don't think pythons are venomous anyway (according to a brief Wiki check), so moot point. But yeah, in short you'd have to be *injected* with venom to die from it, not eat it <_<
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Post by Thérèse on Feb 26, 2016 7:44:57 GMT -5
Ok...it may have taken me several years to upload this but as promised here is a picture of spatchcocks in the poultry section at Coles, as you can see they don't look like bits are missing but rather just look like small chickens (really do think it is just our terminology for cornish game hens, which I still have never seen here).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 16:16:14 GMT -5
Wow. I'm going to have to haggle my coles for some spatchcocks lol
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Post by Thérèse on Feb 28, 2016 6:44:50 GMT -5
@machan I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. Both Woollies and Coles here used to regularly stock both quail and spatchcock but now only certain ones do, on occasion.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 8:28:41 GMT -5
Thérèse I don't have a woolies near me, however our coles used to get quail. Apparently all the supermarkets around me did but when I was hunting around for them, they all told me the same thing "No one bought them, so we don't stock them anymore" *sob* The Corner Chicken Shop actually has them, they call them Poussin, but same bird. It also appears cheaper too. $9 for one bird. I've been meaning to order stuff from them for a while. I could probably also go in store since its in Melbourne. www.poultryandgamemeat.com.au
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Post by Thérèse on Feb 29, 2016 8:40:28 GMT -5
Yes, both quail and spatchcock are getting harder to find but the markets I go to has them enough for my guys to get them fairly regularly, even with Coles and Woollies being annoying and only sporadically stocking them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 3:22:53 GMT -5
Thanks for this list, it will really come in handy. I haven't tried to find spatchcock or quail yet. Should be interesting to see if I can find them. Am I right in thinking the spatchcock wouldn't count as a separate protein to chicken, but the quail would?
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Post by LindaM on Feb 10, 2017 3:55:19 GMT -5
tanya Since Spatchcock is mostly considered just another terminology for Cornish Game Hen in other places (spatchcock actually being a noun for a chicken or game bird split open for grilling usually), it will depend on who you talk to. Some ferrets who react with sensitivities to chicken, do not react the same way to CGH, thus some people will consider it a different protein than chicken, though not generally different enough to count towards your 3 minimum different protein count. Quail will count as a different protein though. And it's always best to get your ferrets used to as many different proteins as you can.
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Post by Sherry on Feb 10, 2017 11:35:48 GMT -5
yes, it is considered too close to chicken, but quail is a different protein
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Post by Thérèse on Feb 13, 2017 8:50:39 GMT -5
the use of spatchcock as a bird split open for grilling is definitely a different terminology. Here in Aus that would be a butterflied bird. I think I have seen some other poultry , maybe duck or chicken or both, but I have certainly seen butterfly quail because I have bought it for the ferrets. It was quail sliced down the middle and then flattened so that each half looked like the wing of a butterfly and it was labeled as butterfly quail.
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