Can you feed??

[ladyhawk]

Okay so I was reading the guidelines for feeding raw to ferrets and cats.
I understand I should not mix raw with kibble. It can make a mess of gut bacteria. In this article one suggestion is mixing your RAW with something your pet currently likes.
I have feed cooked soup for years. Slow cooked chicken or turkey, pureed in a blender. I add olive oil and Pumpkin as well as Nupro.

Can I mix Raw soup into Cooked soup slowly weaning off the cooked? Or would this cause the same problems?

[Deleted]

It depends on the ferret. Some ferrets can be fed kibble and raw and never have issues. I would try it and watch the stools.

You are going to have funky stools during the raw switch. This is completely normal.

[Sherry]

Mixing a raw puree with the cooked soup they already loved was how I switched my first three

[ladyhawk]

Great! Because this is how I have switched from chicken to turkey, added new kibbles over the years. Seems like it would the best way to get them to except something new
My stuff should be here tomorrow. I'll portion it out and the fun should begin soon

[katt]

The biggest problem with kibble and raw being fed together to my understanding is that it digests at very different speeds. Kibble digests slowly while raw digests quickly. So you feed some kibble and it's poking its way along the stomach, then here comes some raw meat whooshing through behind it....