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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2017 11:32:18 GMT -5
So after a good few weeks, even months trying to sort out my raw feeding problem, it’s all smoothed out I’ve found a small enough freezer I can keep in my room purely for the ferrets food. As a result i can now fully go raw without panicking about having to buy meat every single day, it’s also give me options to bulk buy goodies such as necks and gizzards. ive found a good few links which sell more weirder products such as cows udder, quail even pigeon! As a result I want to try and add that to their diet, I’ve also found a site that sells minced whole animal (my name for it) which involves, the meat, bones and some offal. theres a few of them in total, Beef, Turkey, chicken and lamb, as well as a few with the meat and bones of one animal and offal of another. In my eyes this is as close to whole prey While still keeping the wife happy (she’s refused whole prey all together) and was planning to use this as their baseline food alternating between them. I have seen the basic frankenprey menu and have been trying to use that as a guideline. However 2-3 times a week, I swap one of their meals out for something else like a dinner of just organs, wood pigeon mix, or cut up a whole (degutted/feathered) quail for them, you get the idea. Would this be acceptable or is there some things I should/shouldn’t add? The links for the sites im planning to use are below www.vincethevet.co.ukwww.kiezebrink.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home barf-rawfood.co.uk
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Post by Sherry on Nov 24, 2017 8:47:01 GMT -5
As long as you are swapping based on the menu it's fine. But swapping out a bone in meat or muscle meat for organs can lead to too much of that, causing the diet to be unbalanced. So in short- swap muscle for muscle, bone in for bone in, and organ for organ. IE: the wood pigeon for chicken wings. The organ meal of say, beef for the organ meal of say, chicken/pork etc.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 18:00:24 GMT -5
As long as you are swapping based on the menu it's fine. But swapping out a bone in meat or muscle meat for organs can lead to too much of that, causing the diet to be unbalanced. So in short- swap muscle for muscle, bone in for bone in, and organ for organ. IE: the wood pigeon for chicken wings. The organ meal of say, beef for the organ meal of say, chicken/pork etc. This is where I’m confused as I plan on feeding the “minced whole animal” as their main diet, almost like saying it’s their kibble (just raw and 100% better) which from what has been listed on the site includes everything Minced beef meat 70%, beef bone 10% and beef offal 20% (heart, liver and kidney) thats just one of the options And in my eyes that removes the separate feeding of one meal bone in one day, and another say organs, as it’s litrally all there! so instead of Monday AM: Bone In monday PM : Muscle Feeding the Minced whole animal appears to me something like this Monday AM: Bone in, Muscle, Organ Monday PM: Bone in Muscle ,Organ. This is where I’m finding it hard! As what you’ve said makes sense, but how can I swap Bone in for another type of bone in, or muscle with muscle. If they have everything in one?
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Post by Sherry on Nov 25, 2017 10:58:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2017 13:55:33 GMT -5
I’m guessing I’d still need to balance out the alternative meals? (Alternative meals for me would be the basic meats required to make up the frankenprey diet) so say if Monday AM they had the balanced mince, but PM they had some form of bone in. The next time they had an alternative meal they’d need to have an organ based meal?
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Post by Sherry on Nov 26, 2017 9:04:31 GMT -5
That is what the link is about
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 9:26:51 GMT -5
That is what the link is about Ah okay Thank you!
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