soup question

[sherik]

Is it ok to just feed soup? It is the basic recipe that is on here, but every other week I use duck instead of chicken. But since Huck had his surgery that is all he wants to eat. I still do kibbles too, but he doesn't want any of that either. He never would eat chunks of meat. Is it balanced enough is what I want to know. I know the more protiens the better. But good luck getting him to eat something else. I might try a turkey soup though. I also might try mixing in some wysong arch in there.
He became a soup snob, cause he was only allowed to eat a soft diet cause he had an incision in his intestines. 10 days of soup and that was it...

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Can you list out what your feeding?

[Sherry]

If possible, I'd be using rehydrated freeze dried. The only real problem in the soup is the lack of actual raw bone. While soup is ok over the short term either while switching or sick, it lacks the trace minerals and micronutrients that actual bone has.
Can you get raw bonemeal from a butcher? They usually just throw it away.
Or, since some time has gone by, maybe start trying to get him on chunks again?

[sherik]

I do have freezedried. I can turn that into a soup for him. I also just did an order up for some freeze dried. Wysong arch 1, stelly and chewy's chick chick chicken, and duck duck goose. But they have never had the stelly and chewys before. I will have to start feeding him separately I think. Cause when I give freeze dried it gets eaten up like I haven't fed them in a week. And with 10 ferrets, that is alot of freeze dried. I can also do ground up bone, he used to eat that. If chicken backs is ok. I ground that up and mixed it with the soupie before. Sometimes he spits out the bone, sometimes he eats it.
If I put the ground bone in it, is that enough? I don't want him sicker than he already is. He is a real fussy eater. He was never keen on chunks, he never got that far.

[Sherry]

If he'll take it ground up, certainly. Can you grind it fine enough that he won't spit it out?