little advice...

[web22 27]

hi all just a quick question,i have always gone and shot food for the ferrets when i need to and have always checked for the pellet and removed it or the meat around it because i thought the pellet may be harmful to the ferrets,recently a friend has given me some rabbit he shot and i threw one in without thinking,will the pellet matter or have i been worrying over nothing,thanks...

[The one 8,504]

Your worrying about nothing ive even picked out shotgun pellets in there bowl and if they can eat round and leave them they wont have a problem with a air rifle pellet

[web22 27]

thank fudge for that! i've also turned down a good amount of pheasant because i worried about the shot in them!!maybe now i'll get a bit more free grub

[gnipper 6,531]

My ferrets have always picked out shot and pellets, can always tell when i'm shovelling the shavings out and they hit the shovel. Just make sure you skin and gut everything then freeze for 2 years and then disinfect it before you feed it to the ferret

[roughcoat 8]

My ferrets have always picked out shot and pellets, can always tell when i'm shovelling the shavings out and they hit the shovel. Just make sure you skin and gut everything then freeze for 2 years and then disinfect it before you feed it to the ferret

 

 

2 Years I was told 4 years and disinfect, I'm a gullible c**t . No wonder Iv'e got fourteen freezer's full

[ferret lady 73]

If you're feeding them to kits, it's a good idea to remove the pellets. I know of a litter last year where all the jill kits died as a result of liver damage from eating the pellets along with the meat.

[rob190364 2,594]

My ferrets have always picked out shot and pellets, can always tell when i'm shovelling the shavings out and they hit the shovel. Just make sure you skin and gut everything then freeze for 2 years and then disinfect it before you feed it to the ferret

 

 

2 Years I was told 4 years and disinfect, I'm a gullible c**t . No wonder Iv'e got fourteen freezer's full

you freeze food for 2 or 4 years and then disinfect before you feed it to the ferret??? how exactly do you disinfect it?

 

just give it to them fresh ffs! and don't skin it, just gut it and then stick the whole lot in!

[roughcoat 8]

My ferrets have always picked out shot and pellets, can always tell when i'm shovelling the shavings out and they hit the shovel. Just make sure you skin and gut everything then freeze for 2 years and then disinfect it before you feed it to the ferret

 

 

2 Years I was told 4 years and disinfect, I'm a gullible c**t . No wonder Iv'e got fourteen freezer's full

you freeze food for 2 or 4 years and then disinfect before you feed it to the ferret??? how exactly do you disinfect it?

 

just give it to them fresh ffs! and don't skin it, just gut it and then stick the whole lot in!

 

 

It's a joke mate first post "can always tell when i'm shovelling the shavings out and they hit the shovel" "must have shot the size of tennis balls" and the rest is just fiction. Atb Rob

[rob190364 2,594]

thank god for that, you never know with half the people on here!

[roughcoat 8]

I know some of the stuff is just made up or a wind up such as my ferret lost his head should I take him to the vet all good fun though isn't it. Atb Rob Sorry for robbing the thread like this

[rob190364 2,594]

I know some of the stuff is just made up or a wind up such as my ferret lost his head should I take him to the vet all good fun though isn't it. Atb Rob Sorry for robbing the thread like this

[max abell 196]

We keep around 12 ferrets at anyone time and have done for 30 odd years and have fed ferrets and kitts on shotguned and rifled rabbits and birds since and never once had the slightest bit of problem with shot had more probs with ferrets getting small bones stuck on there teeth

[foresterj 1,096]

If you're feeding them to kits, it's a good idea to remove the pellets. I know of a litter last year where all the jill kits died as a result of liver damage from eating the pellets along with the meat.

they post mortemed all the kits then?

[ferret lady 73]

they post mortemed all the kits then?

 

Yes, except for the first one.

[The one 8,504]

Last time i had kits i was putting two shot rabbits a day into them and never lost one they all left me big healthy ferret's ready to go to mates