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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 22:35:18 GMT -5
Her poops vary a lot. Theyre skinnier than the kibble poop, and usually darker. Her poop will sometimes be pretty wet and dark, or if not that itll be solid with whitish chunks in it. Sometimes itll have a little dark mucous too.
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Post by FireAngel on Mar 26, 2016 21:41:28 GMT -5
Meals that have no bone in them will cause looser poops. The ones with the white flecks and a mucous cover sound like bone poops to me. If you want to you can post poop pics and ask about them. Make sure you tell what she ate before the poops as that helps determine how normal or not they are.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 23:23:42 GMT -5
Shes still not recognizing bones as food. She eats some but a ton of it will be scattered in her blankets every feeding. Ive tried the hammer, a knife, pliars, a table vice. She wont eat any loose pieces that fall out when she eats, which is alot. But if its too big, she just eats the meat off it and gets a little bit of bone, but the piece is relatively intact. So how do you get them to recognize bone as food?
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Post by raynebc on Apr 1, 2016 13:03:45 GMT -5
Have you tried any bones other than chicken wings? Cornish game hen is relatively easy to find and is mostly just a smaller type of chicken, and its bones may be more enticing for a beginner ferret. Quail is often harder to find without going to an ethnic market or some other specialty store, but it's smaller still.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 23:37:52 GMT -5
Ill try cornish game hens tomorrow. I had better luck with bone today, instead of just cutting up the bone inside, I cut it into small individual pieces and thry ate most of it, leaving only the thick chunks that fell out. Im wondering if I should give them a meatless bone and expose the marrow so they see that its food and will eat the shards that fall out?
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Post by abbeytheferret6 on Apr 2, 2016 10:16:15 GMT -5
I trim thighs from cornish hen considerably and chop off knuckles on bones. I put some of the meat that I cut off in the plate. U can save for a muscle meal, as well.
The knuckles I give to dog. Had senior rolling one in mouth---scared she would get choked. I do not know if I put in plate after cutting it off or she gnawed it off. After that, I dispose of them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 15:45:52 GMT -5
One of them ate some of the leftover pieces of bone from last nights meal. Im not sure which one, smokey has stronger jaws but ruckus is the hungrier one. But its a huge improvement since I usually clean out a good amount of bone from their cage. Besides that, both are doing great with the raw and ruckus is no longer skinny.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 23:31:44 GMT -5
Following! I had a little boy we got at about 15 weeks, and I want to switch him to raw. This has been a great read; please keep posting!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 1:03:50 GMT -5
Ok I didnt get cgh yet because my check doesnt clear til tomorrow, so ill pick it up then. Ive been watching them eat to see how they go at the bone. I pulled the bone out of the chicken smokey was eating and waved it around, and did a little tug of war. She took it and she really likes the marrow, but once she licks that up and eats the small bits of chicken left on it, shes uninterested. Shes getting better at crunching them up which means her jaws must be getting stronger. I split the bone open longways and then smashed it a little and shell take the pieces and just eat the marrow. Hopefully the game hens are easier, I think its that they try to eat and feel this hard piece and just decide to eat the pther stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 16:02:22 GMT -5
Im hoping the cgh is more successful. But if not, I was wondering about leaving them with the bone after they eat the meat and waiting them out so they get hungry enough to eat the actual bone pieces. I know both are capable of eating it. But is it a good idea? I dont want them to get sick fro, not eating.
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