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Post by w1ldc4rd on Feb 16, 2011 16:22:51 GMT -5
My little guy will eat 10 fuzzy rats a day easily. Is it just me or is that a ton of food? I have a hard time believing they would eat this much in the wild, which is the diet we are trying to replicate.
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Post by taratee on Feb 16, 2011 16:27:43 GMT -5
how old are your ferrets? i mean it is possible theyre just that hungry given age and weight, ferrets dont strike me as an animal to over eat something thats as hard as a rat to eat, i mean soup yea no chewing but chewing rats?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 17:24:33 GMT -5
I don't know how big a fuzzy rat is, but 10 of the mice fuzzies seems like a lot. Are you certain your ferret isn't stashing these rats somewhere you don't know about? I didn't know Brady had a secret stash place until i noticed something stinking and ripped my room apart. He had a duck neck stashed in a sneaker in my closet. Mine get fed in their cage and he still managed to sneak a WHOLE duck neck out... so do consider hunting for a stash of dead fuzzies
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Post by kainslie1 on Feb 16, 2011 17:43:40 GMT -5
A fuzzy is almost nothing, Sly ate 3 and two tablespoons of venison the very first day I tried raw/ whole prey.
Now that he gets large mice, he can eat two generally. feed bigger and you'll feed less.
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 16, 2011 17:54:44 GMT -5
Well fuzzies are more like candy, not much work to eat and very yummy to ferrets, I know with my crew, pinkies and fuzzies are gone right away, where larger prey they work at slowly. But weight wise that's a lot, is he newly switched to raw?
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Post by w1ldc4rd on Feb 16, 2011 18:28:35 GMT -5
He's a new guy, about 3 mo old now, and has been on whole prey and raw meat for 2 or 3 weeks. He'll eat about 3 or 4 a session. Fuzzy rats weigh more than the mice by a substantial amount as well.
I'll switch to bigger rats next order with rodent pro.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 18:36:24 GMT -5
He is young, new to raw. Young ferrets can really eat a lot. I'd start feeding only adult prey (mice, rats, whatever). They have more nutritional value and will fill him up better. What other raw/whole prey are you feeding?
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Post by w1ldc4rd on Feb 16, 2011 20:24:59 GMT -5
Chicken neck, gizzards, wings, and pork back.
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Post by Sherry on Feb 16, 2011 21:31:29 GMT -5
Definitely introduce older rats, and I'd get some adult mice as well. That gives him a base of 4 proteins then.
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