what is best food to feed ferrets

[Coneytrappr 30]

Think twice about feeding fruit, mates. Being obligate carnivores ferrets are equipped to handle diets with a very, very low carbohydrate content. Excess carbs and suagars in their diet has been linked to a certain type of cancer they can develop in their pancreas. Nor are they capable of actually digesting plant matter [unless the cell walls have already been broken down and partially digested in the gut of a prey animal] so they can not acess any beneficial nutrients in fruits or vegetables anyway.

 

Basically fruits and vegetables are a food which are more or less completely useless to the ferret in terms of nutrition, but which, if fed too much, may give them cancer. No thanks.

[ferrety f 23]

Vitalin ferret & dr johns ferret kibble with fresh water 24/7..

also fresh meat every night, pigeon, rabbit, chicks, pheasant, chicken wings, also offal from butchers, raw egg one a week, lactose free milk couple of times a week.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

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

Im pretty much the same, mine get alsorts of game and vermin

[Malt 379]

I buy a big bag of no frills chicken portions from the supermarkets. It's about 3 quid a pop and it last me about 10 days with my 4, plus they get rabbit, crow whatever when I've got them.

[allenyeates 3]

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.

Same as, also raw eggs every now and then. Ox liver once or twice a month when not any fresh carcases available.

[bagzi 0]

I keep lots of Poultry so they get all the Cockerals and when I have a cull of My pigeons they get those, as well as Rabbit,Sqirrels, Eggs and once in a while just for a change a bit of dried food.

[goldfinger 135]

Cat food most of the time and occational pigeon ect.

Edited March 4, 2010 by goldfinger

[gingerb0y 0]

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

 

cheers

 

A BARF diet is best for them & some dry biscuit (Vitalin I use) lambs liver & they love lambs heart & beef heart, chicken wings but I find they go off chickens wings sometimes with recent & past ferts, baby chicks I have given them baby mice aswell before.

 

You should never give them any part of a pig as this is poisonous to them.

[AL BUNDY 45]

some cornflakes a raw egg and a slice of bread every third day.

[Jamie m 668]

some cornflakes a raw egg and a slice of bread every third day.

what after reading all the other posts you put up this tripe cmon Edited March 4, 2010 by Jamie m

[jf1970 328]

some cornflakes a raw egg and a slice of bread every third day.

what after reading all the other posts you put up this tripe cmon

 

 

i think he is taking the piss.

[kurtrog70 6]

I got my ferret, 3 lambs hearts and liver yesterday.

any good?

cost me a fiver

[The one 8,468]

Too much livers no good for them mate once a weeks plenty

[kurtrog70 6]

Y is liver no good mate?

Iv been giving him a little bit of heart and a little bit of liver each day.

seems to like it anyway

ATB

Kurt

[jf1970 328]

Y is liver no good mate?

Iv been giving him a little bit of heart and a little bit of liver each day.

seems to like it anyway

ATB

Kurt

 

liver has alot of iron in it , to much isn't good for them