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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2013 14:08:01 GMT -5
I am wondering if I can feed a raw cat food recipe to my ferret here is the link to the recipe: tcfeline.com/2012/04/27/original-raw-cat-food-recipe/ if I did feed this recipe I would also feed a whole mouse/ rat a week so that my ferret gets some bone and fur to chew on to keep his teeth clean.Do you think this is an appropriate diet for a ferret? Also what serving size should be offered? Thank you -mya  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2013 14:19:12 GMT -5
Hey Mya (wave) Are you looking to switch your ferret over to a raw diet completely? If so I would highly recommend to sign up for the mentoring program through this forum and one of the mentors will work with you one on one to help get your fuzzy onto a balanced raw diet. For the link you posted, I would personally leave the salt out altogether. Keep things as natural as possible. I would also add WHOLE eggs, including the whites. Whole raw eggs when fed are a complete meal, and this site seems to have some misinformation in regards to the biotin issue they are proposing. Also, bone in meal will be okay for awhile, but it would be best to get them used to crunching whole bones, or at least to get them used to crunching bones that have been ground up. I'm not sure where you are located, or what you have access to but there are a lot of commercial raw pet foods you can buy in frozen patties that are literally an entire chicken, duck, rabbit, or turkey carcass completely ground up. I hope this helps you a bit, look forward to hearing from you! |
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Post by Heather on Jun 4, 2013 14:35:29 GMT -5
It's not a bad recipe by any means but I agree, whole eggs instead of just yolks and you can use egg shell powder (1/2 tsp per 8 oz) instead of bone meal which by the way is a cooked product. That way the egg becomes exactly what it's supposed to be perfectly balanced. This is great for the initial switch but should be raw bone to be considered complete. We have a recipe posted here in a number of places that is considered good and balanced for ferrets. I would not use kelp but then I certainly wouldn't use salt either. It's not like they need a salt lick. You can use dulce in place of kelp if you're looking to replace the trace minerals without the side effects.
Check out our nutritional section there is a lot of information there that will help you create a balanced diet with sufficient different types of protein sources
ciao
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Post by Sherry on Jun 4, 2013 19:37:42 GMT -5
I agree. Doesn't look bad. But why not just get him eating whole meats if you are going to go to the trouble of prepping this on a regular basis? Much easier all the way around.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2013 10:25:56 GMT -5
I am just wondering because I already feed this to our cat and I wanted to see if this is an option to feed to the ferret I am going to be adopting.She is a 1 year old female that I will be switching to raw, at the moment I don't own any ferrets. Thank you to everyone who replied. |
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Post by Sherry on Jun 5, 2013 11:27:32 GMT -5
Ah, okay Just make sure to leave out the salt, etc and to use a minimum of 3 different proteins. You should be doing that for your cat as well  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2013 13:59:23 GMT -5
Okay, thanks for the tips. I don't think I mentened that I will most likly only feed this to get started with and then wean her off of it and introduce new foods as I go. and for the cat I also feed other raw meats this recipe is really only a supplement to the other raw foods I give to the cat. I am trying to ween my cat off of this food because it takes a lot of extra time and Griffin (the cat) eats organs bones and all sorts of other meats.He was a really fast learner and he looks so much better and is so much more energetic.The raw diet is like Magic!  I will also end up weaning my ferret off this recipe if all goes well.  |
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Post by Sherry on Jun 5, 2013 16:17:25 GMT -5
Sounds great |
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