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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2014 14:32:19 GMT -5
How many adult mice makes a meal for an average female ferret? I'm thinking it's time to try them with River. I just don't want to offer too much and have her stashing them around the cage! I know she'll readily eat three fuzzies and three pinkies at one go. (they come in pack of three, haven't bought in bulk yet)
Kaylee is being slower to take to the mice. Which is okay. If she doesn't want to eat them she can keep eating everything else. I'm offering them more for enrichment than anything else.
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Post by Heather on Jan 10, 2014 16:11:59 GMT -5
My little girls eat about 1 to 1 1/2 adult mice per meal
ciao
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2014 20:49:09 GMT -5
That's what I thought, Heather. I bought a couple today, along with a couple hoppers and fuzzies. Kaylee is actually interested in the hoppers, at about half of one before losing interest...might have something to do with the duck fat I smeared on them. LOL I think olive oil just got displaced as favorite treat.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 3:02:07 GMT -5
The girls have started eating adult mice allllll up! They ate three between the two of them. I don't know how much each girl eats, since Kaylee hides them, then River moves them, then Kaylee moves them again, and so on.
I've thought about offering one to the cat, but he may or may not accept it as food. He's kind of a slow cat...
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Post by goingpostal on Mar 8, 2014 21:30:01 GMT -5
My cat didn't show interest in mice until some escaped one day and then she turned into a hunter lol. It's still the only whole prey she will eat. My ferrets will usually eat 1 adult mouse per meal, I give each one in the morning and one for overnight. And yes stashing and restashing by each ferret is very common.
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Post by msav on Mar 8, 2014 21:57:45 GMT -5
if I throw 3 mice in the cage (1 for each ferret) Mogwai will eat the heads off all 3. Then there are only 3 headless mice for the other 2 to eat.
They are making it really difficult to make sure they are balanced.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2014 2:28:26 GMT -5
My cat didn't show interest in mice until some escaped one day and then she turned into a hunter lol. It's still the only whole prey she will eat. My ferrets will usually eat 1 adult mouse per meal, I give each one in the morning and one for overnight. And yes stashing and restashing by each ferret is very common. Sasha is soooo not a hunter. He sat and watched a mouse walk along the wall one day, no attempt to chase it or find it later. (my Basset Hound went bonkers looking for it later) He's a terrible cat. LOL |
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Post by Heather on Mar 9, 2014 15:04:33 GMT -5
Many cats must be taught to hunt mice. I had a pair of siamese who actually sat and watched a mouse make several trips from under the stove to the pantry and back. They did nothing. Later, when Merlyn (evil black kitty and hunter exceptional)came to live with us, he took Samurai under his wing and attempted to teach him how to hunt. It was an abysmal failure. Samurai sniffed a fresh dazed mouse presented to him by Merlyn and actually gagged. He then stalked away shaking his paws like he'd stepped in something horrible. Merlyn, flipped the mouse a couple of times and picked it up and took it to another room to proceed to play with his "toy". I do not allow Merlyn to play with his food. I usually introduce a ferret to spoil his fun and force his hand or paw to make a quick death. This particular time I was laughing too hard at both cats. The total look of horror on Samurai's face and the look of total disgust on Merlyn's was totally hilarious. The body language said it all
ciao
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Post by Awaiting Abyss on Mar 11, 2014 21:57:22 GMT -5
if I throw 3 mice in the cage (1 for each ferret) Mogwai will eat the heads off all 3. Then there are only 3 headless mice for the other 2 to eat. They are making it really difficult to make sure they are balanced. Macha does this. She eats the heads and leaves the rest for Morrighan and Neamhain. |
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