Feeding just whole prey?

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Hello,

Is it considered balanced to just feed nothing but whole prey?

By feeding a mixture of mice and rats, various sizes from babies to adults. Adult dwarf and syrian hamsters, gerbils, multimammate mice, quail, squirrel, chicken, rabbit, pigeon, quail chicks and chicks. Also once a week a whole egg and whole sprats. Those are the main things I am able to get reliably and easily but occasionally other whole prey too.

Can you give different prey items for each meal or is it best to keep it the same all day and give them something different the next?

Edited to add, how much do you feed kits throughout the day? Is it just as much as they will eat because they're growing?

Thank you.

[abbeytheferret6]

All whole prey is great.
But forum considers baby prey as snacks---so for more calcium and vitamins serve adult.

I fed my baby about 4 times a day, but she was  mostly on frankenprey at the time not whole prey.
Maybe someone else will comment about feeding ur little ones just whole prey (how many times during day)
But as much as they want to eat sounds good to me.

I have late night munchers, so i leave a big supper of cut up rats or other cut up whole prey (my blaze steals them off plate if whole and hides them:/ 

Can you give different prey items for each meal or is it best to keep it the same all day and give them something different the next?

Read more: holisticferret60.proboards.com/thread/21396/feeding-prey#ixzz4FtQhEXMu
I try to make easy for myself. Either way is fine imo. FOr a guinea pig, it takes about a day and a morning to be eaten completely at my house depending on size. 

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Thank you, I do plan to feed 4 meals during the day and leave them some food over night

[Heather]

Whole prey is one of the best and most balanced methods of feeding. It's not done often because of cost but it is very much the best way to feed if you can find enough variation (which from your list you have). You can feed any mixture you like rats in the AM, quail for lunch, mice for high tea, and hamster for supper. Baby animals are used as snacks or if used as a meal, must be offset by the use of a couple of adult meals. As you're feeding babies, they require a higher calcium load, so I would avoid feeding young juveniles more than a couple of times a week
ciao

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Thank you The only baby/juvenile prey I have at the moment is rat fluffs and the chicks. Mostly their diet will consist of adult/mature prey because I read that it is more nutritious, especially as the kits will still be growing.