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Post by LindaM on Apr 27, 2018 14:27:57 GMT -5
Can't ever hurt to try, and at that price, why not lol. Let me know how it goes at the other store too. Good luck!
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Post by jamien18 on Apr 27, 2018 14:46:58 GMT -5
Could only find duck legs and some frog legs
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Post by LindaM on Apr 27, 2018 15:21:57 GMT -5
Frog Legs is a good option. It can go 50-50% though, some ferrets are instantly in love with them, some end up just hating them, period. Duck legs can work too, just need some bashing, and it can make them used to the taste of duck.
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Post by jamien18 on Apr 27, 2018 15:33:20 GMT -5
Everywhere was limited on the organs and bone in. I saw some pork spine but i wasn't sure if they could have it
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Post by LindaM on Apr 27, 2018 15:38:35 GMT -5
No, much too dense bones. The bones of big animals are best avoided as they will generally be too dense for ferrets to consume and the ferrets will just ignore them entirely.
I think on the organs you are doing pretty good actually. If you can only get pork organs, that's totally fine. Unlike with muscle and more specifically bone-in meals, organ protein variety isn't that important. It's great if you can provide various types of organs for your other organ part of the organ meal, but as for it being different proteins, that's not that important. Generally I can only get pork kidney (or uteri or spleen sometimes), beef heart and chicken/beef liver myself on a regular basis, unless I order online and that's pretty expensive most of the time.
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Post by jamien18 on Apr 27, 2018 18:39:09 GMT -5
I usually just use chicken liver. Chicken hearts and beef thymus. But j was able to find the pork liver and heart and some pork kidneys. So it's better to look for the smaller animal for bone in ?
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Post by LindaM on Apr 27, 2018 18:59:57 GMT -5
Yes. Small animals are closer to your ferrets natural prey in the wild, so much higher chance of them being able to consume all, or the majority of it. Take these for example, a ferret can eat an entire quail, they can eat an entire rat, they can eat the entire rabbit even (though you might wanna smash weight bearing bones). There's plenty adult whole prey animals that your ferret can consume everything of, and most poultry animals they can eat a majority of, with the exception of needing to smash weight-bearing bones because they're a bit tough as-is. Scroll down on this link, you'll notice the animals it says "Any/All" on. holisticferretforum.com/natural-diet/raw-diet-the-meat-of-the-site/basic-frankenprey-menu/
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Post by jamien18 on Apr 29, 2018 0:26:14 GMT -5
Got roo to eat out of the feeding den tinypic.com/r/14dikrd/9But now he's just wanting to put them about and be loud
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Post by jamien18 on Apr 29, 2018 22:18:17 GMT -5
But what's really bothering me is that they're not going in the litter box but like once a day. And I've already used the whole bottle of cleaner in just a few days with having to clean
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Post by LindaM on Apr 30, 2018 13:15:27 GMT -5
Sorry, I've been somewhat MIA on here, we've had some drama at our home where the ferret room got a bit flooded and we've just been busy dealing with that.
You can always create another thread on the forum asking specifically about things you might be able to try and curb pooping in wrong places better. With any luck, some of the other members will chime in with other methods that may have helped them.
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Post by jamien18 on May 1, 2018 18:21:18 GMT -5
Oh no that's never good!
They're poops without the bone in meats are still runny I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Also they like the frog legs for they're bone in meal today and the other day !
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Post by LindaM on May 1, 2018 23:06:01 GMT -5
No, it's not. We only got their carpet dried today after running a shop-vac over it all on Sunday and blowing 7 fans non-stop on there since Sunday evening till this evening. With any luck though, we might be ripping out the darned carpet next weekend and sealing the concrete in their room with a paint instead (if the delivery gets here in time for the weekend and the hubby can take time to do it).
Great! I'm glad they are enjoying the Frog legs! No odd reactions to it from Kanga so far?
As for the poops off bone-in meats being runny, on the heart and organs it will be, and you are already feeding the max bone-in meals, so that's only 2 muscle meals that are then technically on the runny-side. I wouldn't be too worried about it just yet.
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Post by jamien18 on May 2, 2018 12:24:43 GMT -5
Kanga hasn't had any reaction to it and they've had it twice now. So that's really good. I think it might have been the Turkey because she'd only throw up when they had Turkey. Also, when do you think I could introduce the whole prey?
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Post by LindaM on May 3, 2018 12:45:00 GMT -5
That's really good to hear. We'll keep trying a few more proteins and see if they all go without issues, and then give turkey one more shot to see if the issue returns or not.
You wanna give Whole Prey a shot? Go for it! Items the size of a rat and bigger generally have to have their intestines removed as ferrets will make a right nasty decorative mess with them instead since they won't eat them. You can start out by either cutting it up into smaller chunks to introduce it, or tie it to a string and tease them with it like a cat teaser toy. You could even try a little salmon or raw egg drizzle to get them interested in licking it, which may encourage them to take a bite.
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Post by jamien18 on May 3, 2018 22:13:37 GMT -5
How do I fit it Into they're menu ? And what size and can it be frozen? Also I think they have they're intestines where I'd be getting them
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