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Post by Celene on Feb 8, 2017 17:37:08 GMT -5
Thanks for letting me know. Loki is doing GREAT with his meat! Let me know when you have photos of the ground chunks.
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Post by Celene on Feb 8, 2017 17:41:24 GMT -5
Also wanted to mention with the way Loki is chowing on meat, I wouldn't even bother getting any ground rabbit or quail - he will do much better with the larger chunks and both are very easy to prep! I've made a video on cutting quail, and one of our other admins has made a video of chopping rabbit. It takes me maybe 30 minutes to chop, portion, label and store one rabbit. The main reasons that I recommend feeding larger chopped chunks is that: - It will force him to really chew his food and eat slower. Eventually ferrets often become obese on grinds (even large-chunk grinds) because they are so easy to wolf back.
- Larger chunks of bone are much better for exercising jaw muscles and cleaning teeth.
- With coarser grinds ferrets are often lulled into a false sense of security as the pieces are small enough to be swallowed whole, but they don't realize there are larger bone chunks in the mix, and when they try to swallow a mouthful with bone it can be a choking hazard.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 19:49:58 GMT -5
Awesome! Hopefully I will have time on Sunday or Monday to go grab a few rabbits and quail and chop them up! Did you have a chance to see the video I posted? That is the size of the pork chop slices I made for him...what do you think about the size?
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Post by Celene on Feb 11, 2017 21:10:11 GMT -5
The video was awesome! The size of chunks are great too. Usually for bone-in I do a bit larger because it's more convenient, but if he'll eat chunks that big he'll easily eat ones double the size, so it's most about what is easiest for you to chop and prep.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 10:21:31 GMT -5
I am about to run out of the whole ground beef...I was wondering what type of beef you would recommend to replace it with?
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Post by Celene on Feb 13, 2017 21:36:33 GMT -5
Any cut of beef is fine - the cheaper/fattier the better! Usually I buy chunks of stewing beef as it is both cheap and fatty, and then I just cut the chunks into half or so. Now that Loki is doing great with chunks, I highly recommend you switch over to the frankenprey diet. Frankenprey Menuweekly menu based on two meals/day) 7-9 meals bone-in meat 2-4 meals muscle meat 1.5 meals of heart 1.5 meals of liver and another organI personally prefer to combine the heart and organ meals (since feeding "half" a meal is confusing) so I feed 3 meals per week which consist of 50% heart, 25% liver and 25% another organ. This also makes it easier to prep and freeze many organ meals in advance. A sample frankenprey menu might look like this: Monday am: edible bone in meat Monday pm: edible bone in meat (or muscle)
Tuesday am: edible bone in meat Tuesday pm: muscle meat
Wednesday am: edible bone in meat Wednesday pm: heart
Thursday am: edible bone in meat Thursday pm: edible bone in meat (or muscle)
Friday am: edible bone in meat Friday pm: ½ heart + ¼ liver + ¼ other organ
Saturday am: edible bone in meat Saturday pm: muscle meat
Sunday am: edible bone in meat Sunday pm: ½ liver + ½ other organYou can still feed your whole grinds, just follow the guide here for balancing them with the frankenprey menu.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 15:51:59 GMT -5
Would the grounds count as bone in meats?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 20:36:57 GMT -5
So we were completely out of beef which we were going to feed him tonight so instead we gave him raw ground beef just to see if he would go for the flavor. Didn't take to it at first so I added a little bit of salmon oil and it seemed to do the trick. We will go grab some fattier beef that I can cut into chunks tomorrow when I get out of work (:
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Post by Celene on Feb 14, 2017 21:21:11 GMT -5
See the link I posted which shows you how to substitute grinds into the frankenprey menu.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 5:51:48 GMT -5
Awesome! I didn't even see the link before haha. Don't know how I missed that one.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 6:06:59 GMT -5
Just ordered chicken hearts,duck liver, and goat pancreas to get started on his frankenprey diet! It will ship on Monday so it should be to my house by the end of next week! I am also going to still go grab some quail and rabbit from the butcher. Also going to pick up some beef.
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Post by Celene on Feb 15, 2017 15:31:41 GMT -5
Sounds great! Loki is a lucky little guy
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 17:21:37 GMT -5
So those are okay to start with? Should I get different types of organs later on once he is used to the change to mix it up a little bit or are those perfectly acceptable by themselves?
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Post by Celene on Feb 17, 2017 21:34:25 GMT -5
Those are perfectly acceptable by themselves, although you can always switch them up if you want to later on.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 14:21:34 GMT -5
Good to know! They ship out on Monday. Went to the store and bought some stew beef chunks and some pork belly...it's super fatty so it should be good! He LOVES pork. Maybe as much as he loves chicken.
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