feeding ferrets

[dicky82 1]

just got two young ferrets, whats the best thing for feeding them, at the minute im feeding them some bread and milk and tinned catfood... all suggestions appreciated. thanks

[Kay 3,709]

just got two young ferrets, whats the best thing for feeding them, at the minute im feeding them some bread and milk and tinned catfood... all suggestions appreciated. thanks

 

 

The need feeding raw meat .. or complete dry ferret food.. the sops & tinned meats no good for them

[scothunter 12,609]

bread and milk? think you really ought to have read up on them or asked someone who keeps them before embarking on getting ferrets.stop feeding that muck to them right away mate.

[jac 12]

i have a very young kit here. bread and milk would be the last thing i would give it. compleat ferret food soked in warm water till its soft is great for the little ones. fresh raw chicken bits or beef. i do give mine a small bowl of kitten milk that you can get in tesco,but fresh water is a must and if they are very small use a dish as kits can find the bottle hard to use .

[CarraghsGem 92]

im rearing mine on whole dog-chewed rabbit and whole roosters that are regularly given to me. ran out of both yesterday so slaughtered an old spare drake for them, cut it in half and split it between the 2 hutches as im keeping my 2 adults seperate from the 3 kits

[The one 8,457]

Rabbits ,pigeon ,squirrells etc anything you can trap or shoot

[kobi2k4 2]

just got two young ferrets, whats the best thing for feeding them, at the minute im feeding them some bread and milk and tinned catfood... all suggestions appreciated. thanks

 

dicky tell us all haveing a giraffe mate or are really that stupid? did it not achure to to ask the guy bought it off what to feed the poor thing.

Edited July 5, 2010 by stubby
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[ace32 4]

as all above,or at a push get down to morrisons for some ox heart or get some mince,or even fresh road kill,just skin it up make sure it s ok on the inside,cut the meat of the bone to check for small bits of bone,etc,or just go pop some bunnies,plenty about,ian

[theferreter 311]

[kobi2k4 2]

since when as y o u and y o u r been censerd? you your

[bert the fert 28]

just got two young ferrets, whats the best thing for feeding them, at the minute im feeding them some bread and milk and tinned catfood... all suggestions appreciated. thanks

 

 

As previous posters have said, they need meat. Ferrets are obligate carnivores ! James Wellbeloved does a decent extruded pellet which soaks just fine. If you've no fresh kill to supplement their food, then ask your butcher for off cuts, or a bit of sheep heart [ ours gives us this stuff for free ]

[dicky82 1]

i only got them yesterday and asked the bloke who sold them to me what he had them on, and that is what he told me he was using. i came on here asking for advise, i can assure you im no idiot, i dont wana be giving them crap that is why in my origional post i asked what is the BEST thing to feed them. i dont give my dogs tinned food so i wasnt 100% about giving tinned food to the kits.

 

i will get a complette ferret nut in the morning. should all the meat they get be raw? or should i partially cook it?? when i give them trapped birds, should these be gutted and plucked??

 

thanks

Edited July 5, 2010 by dicky82

[CarraghsGem 92]

i would give them the birds whole and raw myself, but remember to worm them regularly like you would a dog or cat.

 

also i wouldnt ever feed them any pork (heard it was harmful to ferrets)

i also wouldnt feed them beef;- it wouldnt be on the menu to them in the wild

i see no harm in feeding them the occasional raw egg though, make a small hole in it and they have great fun, breaking into the egg. atb gem.

Edited July 5, 2010 by CarraghsGem

[dicky82 1]

i would give them the birds whole myself, but remember to worm them regularly like you would a dog or cat.

 

thanks, i was only on to the vet booking them in for worming on wed. would the feathers be too corse for young ferrets?

[CarraghsGem 92]

no, they soon find a way in often starting at the head or near the anus and hollow the bird out, even my young kits (i bought them at 7wks old) have had no trouble with any carcass they have been given