Hiya! We met on your previous thread, I gave you a run-down of frankenprey but so you can get to it more easily I will re-post it here in case you want to look over it again. We'll get to this current post in another reply. You can just skip this and go to the next post (unless you want to read it again of course, haha) "Before starting the switch you will need boneless chicken thighs, hearts, liver, eggshell or bonemeal powder and a kitchen scale. I bought chicken thighs in bulk at Sam’s Club, I suggest buying larger amounts as it’s most always cheaper and easier, as during the soup stage they tend to eat a lot. As for the hearts, you can either get them from an asian/hispanic market or the butchers, or you can get the packs of chicken and gizzards from tyson at the grocery store, be aware though that you’ll need to get several packs as the heart ratio is low in those packs. For the liver you can also get those at the asian market/butcher or from a grocery store, tyson sells containers of chicken liver for like $2. The eggshell or bonemeal powder, you can either make your own eggshell powder by letting some eggshells dry and then grinding them up into a fine powder or buy some bonemeal powder either at a health food store or online.
To begin, make this soup recipe-
8oz chicken thigh
1 oz chicken hearts
1 oz chicken liver
1/2 teaspoon bonemeal/eggshell powder.
Blend it all together until it’s at a tomato soup consistency. Get a few spoonfuls in a bowl, sit in the floor with your fuzzer, dip your finger in it then dab it on their nose. If they shake their head all around and try to wipe it off, try rubbing it on their gums. If they lick it off or are more willing, continue to offer it to them from your finger. Once they start licking it off your finger, then offer it to them from a spoon. Once they’re eating it from the spoon, slowly lower the spoon into the bowl until you are able to get rid of the spoon. Once they are eating from the bowl/plate on their own, with every batch of soup you make, add less water, once you are to a pudding consistency start adding tiny itty bitty slivers of chicken thigh, slivers the size of your fingernail crescent, put maybe 4-5 of those in the soup. If they eat those well, add 2-3 more, then try making them a tad bit bigger, then add 2-3 more, then make them bigger, and so on. The goal is to begin adding less soup and more slivers, making the slivers bigger into chunks, getting rid of the soup entirely, and eventually getting them on bone-in. It is a process, and this is just a brief run-down of it.
In the first few weeks you may notice they smell worse, their poops may be horrid/like a rotting animal, no worries, this is just detox. Their body is ridding of all the crap that was in their kibble, and it STINKS. But after a few weeks they will start smelling MUCH better, it’s a huge perk of raw feeding, how little they smell. Plus they will start pooping less, as their bodies can actually use and absorb everything they are eating. Their coat will get softer, fluffier, shinier, they may lose/gain weight depending on if they are overweight or underweight, and also in the first few weeks or even months they may eat more than usual, it’s all normal. With raw fed ferrets no poop is the same, in the first couple months they may be super wacky, they may be seedy, jello-y, foamy, loose, firm, dark brown, light brown, black, yellow-ish, purple (giggle) okay, maybe not purple, but you get it. Unless the weird poop is accompanied by a change in activity/appetite or it is repeated then try no to worry too much. But if you feel something is off, don’t hesitate to snap a picture and post it to the forum, we’re all used to it and poop pictures are welcome, haha.
Now that we’ve covered some of the beginning stuff, moving on to the run-down of frankenprey.
The minimum is to feed at least 3 proteins a week, and one of the proteins you feed needs to be a red meat (ie: Chicken, Beef, Pork) but it's really best to have more proteins, I'd say at least 4 or 5 a week would be good. The more variety the better. Here is an example menu of what you would need to be feeding them weekly.
Monday AM: Half Heart - 1/4 Liver - 1/4 Other Organ
Monday PM: Edible Bone-In Meal
Tuesday AM: Muscle Meal
Tuesday PM: Edible Bone-In Meal
Wednesday AM: Muscle Meal
Wednesday PM: Edible Bone-In Meal
Thursday AM: Edible Bone-In
Thursday PM: Half Liver - Half Other Organ
Friday AM: Edible Bone-In Meal
Friday PM: Muscle Meal
Saturday AM: Edible Bone-In Meal
Saturday PM: Edible Bone-In
Sunday AM: Muscle Meal
Sunday PM: Edible Bone-In Meal
So as long as you follow this menu and have this being fed weekly then their diet will be balanced
7-9 Bone-in Meals (ei: chicken wings, necks, frog legs, etc)
3-4 Muscle Meals (remember, heart is a muscle)
Half Liver & Half Other Organ
Half Heart, 1/4 Liver and 1/4 Other Organ
1 Meal of Hearts
At least one Red Meat meal
A minimum of 3 different proteins
Edible Bone-In Meat is the non-weight bearing bones of the animal the size of a chicken or smaller.
Muscle Meat is any meat not containing bone, remember that Heart is a muscle and must be one of the muscle meals.
"Other" organ is any organ that secretes, Kidney, Spleen, Pancreas, Brain, Thymus, etc.
As for how long all this stuff will last out at room temp,
Soup - 6-8 hours
Muscle Meat - 12-24 hours (depending on size of the chunks)
Bone In Meats - 24 hours
Whole Prey - 48 hours"