what is best food to feed ferrets

[Lizard 0]

Mine get Doctor John's biscuit, "ferret/butchers mince" ~ £1.50/lb, pig liver, Ox heart from the local store when they reduce the price, buy it and freeze it, and any rabbit we have spare...I will be offering woodies after reading this post.

 

Cheers,

Paul

[The one 8,467]

Anything i shoot trap or snare the ferrets get and some chicken carcasses the only thing i dont feed is that dry crap

[Jamie m 668]

a ferret can extract alot of stuff its missing out on ie vitamins iron and stuff from the guts even from the sh?t bag once in a while

[polecat84 1]

i feed mine rabbit squirrel pigeon pheasant chicken corvids anything fur and feather except rats, wouldn't dream of feeding mine that dry crap either.

[polecat93 4]

i feed mine rabbit when i catch them and also ferret dry food and they also get some cat food and other meat which they can have like mince etc

[IN THE BUSH OUT THE BUSH 0]

i feed mine on go cat but for anyone who feed's biscits allways make shur you go plenty of walter

[marky b 309]

cat food for mine

[theferreter 311]

mines get ferret mix /rabbit/mince/eggs and sometimes cat food

[Ideation 8,216]

Ok . . . mine get a long list of different things i've, shot, trapped etc the main one obviously being rabbit. They get the livers, hearts etc when i am gutting and then i hang half a rabbit with skin in the cage every couple of days and they strip it to bone and fur. They particularly love the eyes! They also get dried ferret food sometimes and i feed them an egg of two every so often. They also get a selection of fruit, their favorite being banana. When i feed them dried food i usually add a good measure of feretone.

 

They seem to thrive on this diet and are well muscled, thick coated and fast and active as hell!

 

atb

 

Jai.

 

Try the fruit seriously!

[RaiderBoy 19]

Mine get almost everything that can be found in the house or that ive shot from dried ferret food to rabbits to fruit(bannana being thier favourite) and eggs and they have beautiful coats and are fairly active.

 

Richard

[valley boy 28]

hi was just wondering what is best to feed my ferrets i do feed them chicken wings and pork liver

 

cheers

rabbits birds and squirells thats all mine eat

[mikeyblue 28]

Bread and milk!............ just kiddin

 

Mine has a mixture of stuff. Obviously rabbit when available, chicken wings if not. She also loves Aldi cat biscuits at £1 a kilo!! The odd egg, and if I'm feeling flush James Wellbeloved complete but I think the £1 a box cat biscuits are a bargain so she gets a lot of these with a dose of ferretone.

 

Eddited to say, Jai, will deffinately try a bit of fruit chucked in sounds a good idea!

Edited March 3, 2010 by mikeyblue

[waidmann 105]

mine get dry food supplemented with eggs,pigeon,duck,goose,pheasant anything thats available(normally whats left after dressing) and they love it.

the only thing they won't eat is rabbit which i'm pleased about,they will kill and move on(not had them lie up yet).

i have two jills.

[jf1970 328]

iam after feeding them chicken wings and a raw egg,i only cracked a hole in the egg they will do the rest themselves,including eating the shell.

[The one 8,467]

ferrets have big teeth because there carnivores imagine the fuss folk on here that feed there ferrets dry grub would kick up if they where getting a bowl of cereal for breakfast, dinner and tea seven days a week