thinking of buying ground franken prey

[pastelsummer]

i thought i read somewhere you could buy whole prey but it is cround like burger. henry refuses bone will not have anything to do with it. but i know he needs it so if i had it ground up thickly would that work?

[bluemoose]

You can buy whole prey ground although it might be cheaper to grind it yourself if you have access to whole prey. If you'd rather buy, Hare Today has quite a few ground foods.
hare-today.com/
Some holistic pet stores also have ground mixes but be careful with those because many of them have fruits/veggies. They also tend to be expensive.

How thick the ground can be and still be accepted really depends on the ferret. If bone is his only issue (ie he'll eat chunks of meat just not bone) then the thickness of the ground shouldn't matter because the bone should be completely ground.

[pastelsummer]

yeah he eat all the meats fine just wont eat the bones
he really is a goober.

[taratee]

you tried things like chicken wings and breaking up the bones inside, usually when mine taste the marrow they will eat the bone to get to the marrow

[Deleted]

perhaps try chicken wing tips. it takes awhile for them to build up the muscle and strength to be able to handle bones. the tips are lots of bone, but aren't that tough so it will help gibblets may help as well.

[Sherry]

Quail and cornish hen are both great introductory bones as well. In order to get some of mine eating them, I served up chicken wings for 3 days in a row, both meals Yes, they were sectioned, middle cut between the bones, and the drumette cut along the length- but it finally worked

[Deleted]

If he's good on whole chunks, I'd try some crushed wings before ordering.
It didn't take long for my girls to decide they were yummy

[pastelsummer]

ok i will try that i feed him wings but he just eats the leaves the bone.

[Deleted]

Try to crush the bone as much as possible to get him used to the bone in his meats.

[taratee]

i mean if you crush up the bones with something like a hammer they dont have much choice

[pastelsummer]

ok i will try that. hopefully it will help

[taratee]

but just to warn you if you go to town on the wings with a hammer you might want to hold onto it with one hand theyre pretty slippery

[Deleted]

I've had my chicken wing slip and slide all over my counter

[pastelsummer]

i put it in a snack bag and used the dull flat edge of a butcher knife lol

[taratee]

i dont know how well that smushed it up but whatever works?i virtually liquify the bones in the chicken wings when i go to town