About baby's prolapse and raw food

[bare01]

I was told by the shop person.
"He has just had surgery, so he can not eat hard food yet. Eating hard food will cause anal prolapse. Wait until he is three months old."

He was born on April 18, 2019. I want to switch his meal to raw food early. I will start with the soup first.
I have a question. When should you give him boned meat and muscle meat (hard food)? What month after birth? Even if his meal is raw, does he get anal prolapse?

P.S.
This is everyone's bulletin board. I have made a lot of threads recently. I'm sorry.

[abbeytheferret6]

This is everyone's bulletin board. I have made a lot of threads recently. I'm sorry.

No need to apologize. Forum is for giving and receiving information.




However about your questions-- I do not have that experience, so others will have to answer that for you.
And congratulations on your new addition. He is lovely, and I know he will be treasured by you.

[Heather]

Start right away on the raw food. Babies love it. I don't know what your plan is, frankenprey, commercial grinds or prey? Babies often don't even need to start with soupy. This wee one is about 3 months of age. My kits are eating whole prey before they're 6 weeks of age...so go for it
ciao

[bare01]

Jun 25, 2019 14:43:25 GMT -5 Heather said:

Start right away on the raw food. Babies love it. I don't know what your plan is, frankenprey, commercial grinds or prey? Babies often don't even need to start with soupy. This wee one is about 3 months of age. My kits are eating whole prey before they're 6 weeks of age...so go for it
ciao

Thank you for telling me more.I will skip the soup step and start.

I'm sorry I forgot to say.I will start Franken.
Today I will go to a butcher after work and buy fresh meat for him.And I will give raw food from Friday night for him.I will give him minced meat and gradually shift to a solid meat.
I am very nervous now ('_')

By the way, what do you think of horse and kangaroo meat? In Japan, the two meats are often used in dog's raw food, and I can get it easily. The meat is high in protein and low in lipid. I think he needs a lipid because he is still a child. So I want to help with lipids in chicken skin. Have you ever given a horse and kangaroo to ferrets?
 

[bare01]

Jun 25, 2019 3:57:39 GMT -5 abbeytheferret6 said:

This is everyone's bulletin board. I have made a lot of threads recently. I'm sorry.

No need to apologize. Forum is for giving and receiving information.




However about your questions-- I do not have that experience, so others will have to answer that for you.
And congratulations on your new addition. He is lovely, and I know he will be treasured by you.

Thank you for the kind words. As he is the first Ferret for me, I am worried that I can not understand anything. I will ask more questions. At that time I am very glad that you will answer again (^^♪

[abbeytheferret6]

Horse and kangaroo will be used as the muscle meals in the frankenprey diet because the bones are too dense for the ferret to break with their teeth. However I read this about the horse's tail.

Horses' tailbones provide a center structure for the tail and allow the horse to move the tail as he pleases. The tail hair grows out of the tailbone, normally about a foot long.


I do not know how dense the tail bone is. It may not work, but if it is crunchable you can add some extra horse meat with it. You will just have to investigate.

[Heather]

The bone is probably similar to pork which is too dense to be consumed by a ferret. The meat is fine for a boneless meal but you should try and find bone in meat that would be closer to the size of animal that a ferret can actually eat.
ciao

[bare01]

Jun 27, 2019 7:19:43 GMT -5 abbeytheferret6 said:

Horse and kangaroo will be used as the muscle meals in the frankenprey diet because the bones are too dense for the ferret to break with their teeth. However I read this about the horse's tail.

Horses' tailbones provide a center structure for the tail and allow the horse to move the tail as he pleases. The tail hair grows out of the tailbone, normally about a foot long.


I do not know how dense the tail bone is. It may not work, but if it is crunchable you can add some extra horse meat with it. You will just have to investigate.

Thank you for telling me more.
I will try to buy the horse's tail.And I will give it to him.I will try to eat him bones.
I will also report the results in this thread if it is executed.

[bare01]

Jun 28, 2019 19:43:14 GMT -5 Heather said:

The bone is probably similar to pork which is too dense to be consumed by a ferret. The meat is fine for a boneless meal but you should try and find bone in meat that would be closer to the size of animal that a ferret can actually eat.
ciao

Thank you for telling me more.

It is very difficult for me to find boned meat that he can eat.
I found chicken wings, chicken knee cartilage, chicken neck, bones at the tip of chicken sternum, and calf cartilage.

Minced boned meat is used for raw food in dogs in Japan, so I can obtain it.
I will look for boned meat that he can eat.
But I will take time to find it.
Do you think it would be fine to use minced meat until I found it?
With mince I can get deer and rabbits.