Current diet plan

[sheresafaye]

Please let me know if I should tweak anything 

sunday am bone in meat
           Pm 1/2 heart 1/2 muscle meat
monday am bone in meat
            Pm muscle meat
tuesday am bone in meat
            Pm 1/2 heart 1/4 liver 1/4 kidney
wednesday am bone in meat
            Pm muscle meat
thurs am bone in meat
         Pm 1/2 liver 1/2 kidney
friday am bone in meat
         Pm muscle meat
saturday am bone in meat
          Pm 1/2 heart 1/2 muscle meat

i know it said 9 bone in meals but it also said if their poop was too hard to reduce it and when i do back to back bone in meals their poops are very hard. Despite the current fiasco their poops seem the same as always, they are happy energetic, bright eyed etc. and their coats actually seem shinier and a little thicker. So im hoping thats good. 

[LindaM]

We do not really advise mixing types of meats, like doing a heart meal with muscle meat. This is mostly due to ferrets being very willing to pick out favorites in their food and ignoring others, thus not getting everything they need, and it becomes even more of a problem if you have multiple ferrets eating together. So try to keep your Heart, Organs, Muscle, and Bone-in meals separate from one another if you can, other than the 1 mixed heart and organ meal. Is there a specific reason you are feeding their hearts with a muscle meat?

How are their poops doing on the 7 then, more normal? You can feed 7 bone-in meals, so long as their poops are well-formed, if you get a lot of really wet and runny poops (other than heart and organ days), then you might need to increase the bone-in meals. Kits also tend to require the full 9 bone-in meals, but older ferrets only usually need the 8 or 9, if they are having too soft poops.

[sheresafaye]

I was mixing the heart because when I did it on its own they wouldnt touch it at all..... but when i mixed it with some pork they gobbled everything up. My hope is to add more heart and less pork until it is completely just heart. Their poops are the consistency Ive read about here. They are only runny on the organ meal nigts and then they get solid very quick with te bone in meal that follows. I know they sid 9 for kits but whenever I feed them back to back bone meals their poops are much harder and it worries me

[LindaM]

Ah, I see, yes that's fine to do for them until you can get the girls to eat the hearts alone in a meal, so long as they are indeed eating the hearts and not simply going after pork first and foremost only.