Ferret winter diet..?

[SeanTheHawker 0]

crows ( freeze for 2 weeks) pigeon, rabbit, hare, day old chicks, dead white rats from pet shops that sell snake food.

 

Frank.

WHAT?!?!? you buy rats for your ferrets, spoilt b*****ds lol. altho saying that, i fed about 20 quail to my ferrets at start if the season

Edited December 2, 2006 by SeanTheHawker

[Guest Hedgehunter]

Meat most of the time with biscuit used if needed a couple of times a week.It depends on the quality of the rubbish (as my butcher calls it)that I'm given,sometimes its too far gone even to cook,but its free so well worth sorting through.Tree rat is my ferrets favourite they go crazy for it.

[bill88 6]

Each to there own,i feed mine dry food with a bit of fresh meat once or twice a week.My ferret's are in tip top condition.When i first started keeping ferret's,25 yrs ago,i fed them raw meat,and although they did well on it,the dry food's are more nutritionally complete than just meat.Most carnivore's feed on the innard's first,and that would contain a fair amount of veg and cereal.jmo

[socks 32,253]

Each to there own,i feed mine dry food with a bit of fresh meat once or twice a week.My ferret's are in tip top condition.When i first started keeping ferret's,25 yrs ago,i fed them raw meat,and although they did well on it,the dry food's are more nutritionally complete than just meat.Most carnivore's feed on the innard's first,and that would contain a fair amount of veg and cereal.jmo

 

how can something that is made in a factory be more nutritional than meat ??? .........

[Guest simonw]

It has been interesting reading different peoples views on feeding their ferrets, but nothing made in a factory can ever be better nutritionally than the natural diet of a carnivore and that is complete animal matter, you see it in dogs, birds and yes, ferrets.

[Guest Frank]

crows ( freeze for 2 weeks) pigeon, rabbit, hare, day old chicks, dead white rats from pet shops that sell snake food.

 

Frank.

WHAT?!?!? you buy rats for your ferrets, spoilt b*****ds lol. altho saying that, i fed about 20 quail to my ferrets at start if the season

 

Thats right Sean, big white rats from snake food shops , dead of course.

They thrive on them and its very good for ferrets that have lost weaght ect.

 

Now saying this, its not everyday they get them, as they are not cheap. :11:

 

simonw, spot on sir.

 

Frank.

[bill88 6]

Each to there own,i feed mine dry food with a bit of fresh meat once or twice a week.My ferret's are in tip top condition.When i first started keeping ferret's,25 yrs ago,i fed them raw meat,and although they did well on it,the dry food's are more nutritionally complete than just meat.Most carnivore's feed on the innard's first,and that would contain a fair amount of veg and cereal.jmo

 

how can something that is made in a factory be more nutritional than meat ??? .........

Easy, polecat's in the wild would be lucky to see there 5th birthday,yet there's record's of domestic ferret's living well into double figure's.I would agree,fresh meat is more natural,but at the end of the day dry food has everything they need.I know lad's that keep racing greyhound's,and they are all fed on dry.I'd love to have the time to shoot/net enough to feed my ferret's and dog's on,but as good as i am to my animal's,i need to go to work to feed my wife and kid's.At the end of the day,it's personal choice,if i thought feeding dry was no good for my animal's, i'd do sommat about it.As i said jmo,not saying i'm right or wrong.

[sureshot 0]

dry complete food

tell me this, y do you always atatch a pic onto your posts?

Ive always wondered that aswel lol :11:

 

 

fealt like it!

KK, fair enough mate

 

PS, if you add it to your signature, you wont have to do it every time.

 

Josh

 

mate that is [bANNED TEXT] i thought i was doing how do you do it,>?

[Hywel 53]

hi whin i agree with you and socks all the way but there are some people just cant get enough fresh everyday like us i take jackdow / maggys /ringnecks everyday i go down my mothers thats with out ferreting shooting rabbits /hares up in hereford my mate dops me about forty odd rabits every 3 months i just like a bit of dried food

all the best W.D

 

 

What a life! He even gets them delivered..........

[Kay 3,709]

My ferrets get nothing other than what they are supposed to eat , no milk no eggs no crap

 

Ferretlove can you tell me why eggs and milk are a no-no....i give mine eggs now and again and they love them. Why are eggs 'crap' ? I'm just curious because i've always given an odd egg as do most other lads i know.

 

I didnt say eggs are crap, i should have worded it better milk goes through them so i choose to not let them have it, i dont shoot so i cant get birds , i do feed rabbit & chicken & very occasionally chicks, they have access to dry food 24/7 & water.

 

What i ment by crap was the ridiculas amount of rubbish being sold on E bay suppliments & such stuff we sadly live in a world where a ferret is skinny if it weighs less than half a stone, fats ferrets are unhealthy ferrets in my opinion & fit for nothing, as most pet ferrets are kept in the house they seem to be treated as extentions of the family, theres nothing wrong in giving your ferrets a good diet & a good life but feeding such crap as chocolate covered raisons & yoghurt drops isnt my idea of ferret food.

 

i blame the fluffy american ideas that have become the norn sadly

Edited December 4, 2006 by ferretlove

[whin 463]

i met a hywel many years a go with a dark brindle dog collie heeler cross in blairgowrie and he was welsh etc any way , any way ferrets for me are working animals like my dogs , if i had to rely on dry food i would be wondering what the fech have i got them for ,as if i stopped hunting tommorow for some reason ,there would be no toothed animals left in my garden, a ferret free and dog free life , if i cant get fresh meat i get cheap mince , phesis from my mates etc , ive got a few freinds that are butchers who i used to do biusness with, you can pick phesi up for cheap etc better than dry food etc , i think dry food is a last resort but ,you have to do what right for you all the best

[Guest Jane Russell]

I read somewhere that ferrets can't tolerate more than 4% fibre in their diet or they get digestion and intestine problems. Seems sensible and economicical to feed them what you catch.

 

Jane

[Guest Frank]

[Hywel 53]

i met a hywel many years a go with a dark brindle dog collie heeler cross in blairgowrie and he was welsh etc any way

 

Not me mate, but nice to see us Welsh lads getting about