What is bone broth? How to make It?

[Cynde]

I know it seems obvious, I know you use a crock pot. Can you give To raw fed? I know my girls will love it. (Kibble eaters).

[abbeytheferret6]

I was going to say I have been there and done that, but what I cooked was a whole chicken in crock pot and gave my Annabelle a couple teaspoons of broth in a saucer---I did give her a saucer full once, and it tore her stomach up. Not the smartest thing to do. Maybe it is the concentration of fat in the skin and other fat on the chicken that tore her up, as she would not have gotten such a concentration just eating a meaty bone piece. So maybe Sherry or Heather or some of the others will weigh in on the bone broth. I would not give it in the place of meals because the kibble is made to cover all the nutrients that r essential for your ferrets health---like taurine a very necessary ingredient which you will not get in cooked bones. Of course many kibbles have a high carbohydrate load which is not too good on ferrets pancreas.

One healthy raw treat would be a raw egg or egg yolk. You can give 1 whole, whipped egg once a week (if ur ferret is shedding you can give 2 eggs a week). Whip up really well as some ferrets are turned off by the white hanging in long strings when they lap it. Expect funky stools with eggs. You can also give quail eggs in place of eggs. 2-3 equals an egg.

The forum does have a recipe for a raw soupie if you are interested.

[Cynde]

No cooked bones. Zydeco is feed raw. I would only use a tablespoon, mixed with dry dook soup. Got some Knuckle steaks. Nice big center bone with marrow. I cut the meat off the bone. Fed it to him. I hate to waste it.

Would like to freeze some broth for the girls... to make dook soup.

How much water? 1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, etc.

I give him an egg yoke every week.


When I was little my mom would put meat in a (larger) size baby food jar. Then boil it in a sauce pan, to get the undiluted broth.

[Charlie]

I would think that since bone broth is cooked then raw fed ferrets shouldn't eat that. Is't that why we feed raw? Ferrets can't find bone broth in the wild. lol