Hi and Welcome to the HFF (wave)
I'm very pleased to find that you want to start your young girls out, on a healthy diet. That will give them a great start in life. After 15 posts, you can sign up for a Mentor. Take a look under the Home Page, and look at the Natural Diet threads. Those will give you alot of good info.
Here are some of the basics of a Frankenprey diet. You still want to read and understand, what you are feeding and why, but it often helps to see some the basics laid out.
The Frankenprey menu is designed to mimic whole prey. If a ferret catches and eats a mouse, they will eat the whole thing, bones/meat/organs/.
The weekly menu will include at least three different proteins.
7-9 meals a week are Bone In meat: Bones are defined as the non weight bearing bones of a chicken size animal or smaller. Think chicken, quail, cornish game hen, mice, rabbit, guinea pigs.
A whole prey menu is a slightly different thing. You may choose to feed Live Whole Prey or simply order frozen prey like mice and guinea pigs.
3-4 meals a week are muscle meats. One of those meals should be Hearts. Taurine is necessary for ferrets and is found in higher concentrations in hearts.
Beef is a good choice for one muscle meat meal. Its high in Iron and Vitamin B
Two meals a week are Organs:
The first meal should be Liver plus another Organ. Organs are defined as secreting organs like Liver, kidney,pancreas, thymus and brains.
The second Organ meal should be Liver plus another organ plus a half meal of Hearts.
Since there is sometimes a wait for a Mentor, you can build a switching thread (while you wait for a Mentor) and all of the Mentors will pop in and help guide you. In the meantime, take a look at some of the Members Switching threads and see how the process works.
gfountain is a very good Mentor, who has a talent for making things easy to understand.
We aren't just about raw feeding, we love to hear stories, have discussions, ask for help or support with ferret issues and see pictures (pretty please), so have fun and see you around the Forum.
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I do try approving accounts on a daily basis however I have been having computer issues(on the phone at present). This is, unfortunately, going to be carrying on for a bit. I will get your account approved as soon as I can. Is your user name here the same as the one you applied with?