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Post by sheresafaye on Jun 8, 2017 12:12:37 GMT -5
Question.... does tripe count as organ meat?
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Post by LindaM on Jun 8, 2017 12:27:58 GMT -5
Ferrets will not bother with tripe (they don't eat the intestines and would rather paint your walls with them), and most often the tripe bought in the store will have been bleached, destroying nutritional value.
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Post by sheresafaye on Jun 8, 2017 12:34:10 GMT -5
Well crap the store didn't have anything except that they said it was stomach so I got it but it seriously is churning my stomach to look at it lol
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Post by LindaM on Jun 8, 2017 12:54:58 GMT -5
Yeah, they won't eat that. If you feed whole prey, they'll eat whole mice entirely, but the bigger prey like guinea pigs, large rats, and rabbits, etc. would need to be gutted as they will just fling the intestines around making a right mess, and some may even just refuse to touch the food if it's included in the bigger animals. These are organs you can feed: What Defines a Nutritional Organ Meat
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Post by sheresafaye on Jun 8, 2017 13:39:01 GMT -5
Ok thank you very much. I feel bad I just literally wasted $12 but live n learn lol I'm having a hard time finding anything besides liver and the pet carnivore site you told me about won't let me log on even after I registered. I found the hearts I purchased at the store are sold with gizzards too so idk how much is heart in the package.
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Post by LindaM on Jun 8, 2017 14:24:08 GMT -5
If you're unsure, it's best to ask first, or even search on the forum for posts that may have been made before about the item in question, the search function on here works pretty easy. I've often stopped to dig through the forum while in a store, or came home and asked about it first if I wasn't quite sure about something or couldn't properly recall what I've learned about it at the time.
The mix pack of hearts and gizzards from the grocery store is always a rip off, if you're lucky you might get 1 or 2 hearts and a whole mess of gizzards. Personally, I prefer ordering off of Hare Today for things I cannot find locally in a store or Asian/Ethnic market. I haven't ordered off of My Pet Carnivore before, but I know the site comes highly recommended by others. Perhaps email their support team and see if they can help sort out the issue you're having with signing in?
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Post by sheresafaye on Jun 8, 2017 14:42:09 GMT -5
Linda again thank you so much! Im sure you probly read my posts chuckling while shaking your head im so new at this LOL. Thanks for being patient. For some reason my phone was the issue I was able to access the site on another device LOL so my babies are taken care of. Thanks for the support and responding so quickly
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Post by LindaM on Jun 8, 2017 15:25:16 GMT -5
Haha, nope, not at all. We were all new at this once, and all of us are continually learning new things as time goes on. Let me know how the girlies do with their new raw menu over the next few days, or if you struggle with anything or have any new questions pop up and I'll do my best to help where I can.
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Post by sheresafaye on Jun 9, 2017 19:51:07 GMT -5
Just an update..... they are actually eating the chicken wings now without any incentives! I had to pummel them with a meat hammer first lol but Im hoping as time goes on theyll get better about eating them so I wont have to pound so much. They still are just getting heart and liver since nothing I ordered has come in yet and none of the butchers in the area carry anything but liver.... ethnic markets I found dont even have organ meat they gave me weird looks when I asked lol But if the one store I went to carries thru on eir promise ill have kidney by sunday! Oerwise Ill have to wait for my shipment to come in I ordered online.... im hoping since they just completely stopped kibble a week ago it wont supplementally damage them long term.... just like Im hooing being on kibble the short time they were wont damage them lol Anyways they are very happy and playful! I have a bad habit of annoying my facebook family with ferret videos every other day lmao.... will continue to update on their status and post pics as soon as I figure out how lol Im so not tech savy
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