Looking for new whole prey provider

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Hey guys,

I have been ordering faithfully from hare-today for quite some time (a year or more) and haven't ever had any problems. A couple of months ago, without changing the name of the product or anything, they replaced their defeathered quails (bone/organ in, head on) with de-organed, headless, defeathered quails, and now it seems they no longer offer quails with heads and organs (excepting ones with feathers).

Did anyone else notice this? What a bummer.

Ezzy's main foods are whole mice, whole quail (defeathered, bone/organ in, head on) and ground beef organs. Does anyone have any suggestions on who I could look to now that hare-today no longer provides the quails with organs in? I specifically hope to order everything from the same place... I've checked out 3 places now that don't provide all of these things and I'm not sure where else to look, so suggestions would be a lifesaver.

Thanks!

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I cannot help out since I'm from a different country obviously hahaha.
Have you checked out the whole prey providers board? Maybe possibly there could be some listed there that may be of some use to you.
holisticferret60.proboards.com/board/48/raw-prey-providers

It really does suck that they changed to de-organ and headless quails...
I wonder what made them do that? Have you emailed to ask them?
Good luck!

[Desiree]

Do you need to be able to order the organs as well online?

Rodentpro.com was my go to when I was ordering whole prey. Right now quail are on backorder but they will have them in a few days. If you wanted you could switch to full whole prey, do mice and quail and another item (rabbit, guinea pig, rat) and eliminate the beef organs.

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@machan D'oh, I totally missed that post! Thanks, I'll look there!

@desiree The organs are really just a precautionary in case he's eating too much bone/muscle and not enough organs with his whole meals. But it's probably not necessary. I will definitely look at RodentPro.com - thank you!

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OK I found these lists:

sites.google.com/site/holisticferret/healthy-nutrition-at-any-stage-of-life/various-whole-prey-suppliers

k9joy.com/education/foodsuppliers/links.php

and this supplier www.mypetcarnivore.com/index.php?lang=en

wondering what the best supplier is for me in WA state... I have issues getting organs right now (I have hearts and livers and gizzards but no necks and no kidneys and no spleen and no pancreas but I want brains and sweat breads and so on too, or whole prey but this isn't all that).

I will get organs from friends soon but not soon enough and could also still go talk to the butcher but I would rather get whole prey and I would rather it is organic (although I did find local chicken hearts raised in a chicken tractor in the sun shine on always fresh grass).  

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Bitbyter is building a list of providers and when he publishes it, you might find something in your area.
We have several members in Washington State. I'll keep an eye out and when I see one, I'll post to them.
In the meantime, some of them may see this and offer some other ideas.

Have you tried googling Find Asian Markets near your location?