carcass vs dry food?

[charlie nelly1 142]

bread and milk makes them sh$i like fountains

[Bunny Boiler 177]

I personally don't give mine rabbit "meat". I have so much in the form of off cuts, bird carcass and squirrel I never need to. They always get the lungs, liver, heart and kidneys from my rabbits, which get frozen in meal size portions, as well as me throwing in fresh eggs for calcium (they eat the shell) and protein. Plenty of fat around the kidneys on the winter Bunnies. Squirrels are shot regularly by me and I do beating at least once a week so they get a brace of pheasant carcass to nosh on. I have a little section in the hutch which they can only get to through about 2m of tubing snaked around the hutch which takes them above their "bedroom". All meat goes in here as the flies have no way of getting to it as it's a closed room. Perfect for summer months as my hutch is also in the shade all day, so it doesn't get hot.

 

Atb,

 

Bunny

[Rake aboot 4,935]

I personally don't give mine rabbit "meat". I have so much in the form of off cuts, bird carcass and squirrel I never need to. They always get the lungs, liver, heart and kidneys from my rabbits, which get frozen in meal size portions, as well as me throwing in fresh eggs for calcium (they eat the shell) and protein. Plenty of fat around the kidneys on the winter Bunnies. Squirrels are shot regularly by me and I do beating at least once a week so they get a brace of pheasant carcass to nosh on. I have a little section in the hutch which they can only get to through about 2m of tubing snaked around the hutch which takes them above their "bedroom". All meat goes in here as the flies have no way of getting to it as it's a closed room. Perfect for summer months as my hutch is also in the shade all day, so it doesn't get hot.

 

Atb,

 

Bunny

 

Can I assume you keep all the rabbit meat for yourself ??

[rob190364 2,594]

Yeah but he was saying because a ferrets a carnivore they should eat purely meat so it should be same for all carnivores. Look at it from my point if view I changed my ferrets food from fresh meat with dry food to fresh meat and bread milk , the ferrets looked a lot better on the new diet so it wouldn't of made sense to change back?

all I can say is, the dry food must have been fookin shite quality if changing them to bread and milk has improved their condition!!

 

use your noggin FFS, in what way would a ferret be getting bread or milk if it was in the wild? how can that possibly be appropriate food for it?

 

and as for the statement about dogs diets, dogs aren't ferrets! dogs, cats, ferrets all have different systems and need different levels of protein in their diets, ferrets need a higher level of protein than both dogs and cats, and are also lactose intolerant.....both of these facts make feeding them bread and milk utterly stupid!

[craigyboy 1,274]

i feed mines tinned dog food and saps they thrive on it an done yesterdays ferret racing at the british final

tinned dog food kinel whin,i bet their teeth are rank,give em some proper scran,they weren't given those teeth to eat shit from a can

 

edited to say, and feck knows what saps are

Edited October 24, 2011 by craigyboy

[stealthy1 3,964]

Rabbit, worts and all, unbeatable free food, unless whin's saps is a secret name for red bull

[Rake aboot 4,935]

i feed mines tinned dog food and saps they thrive on it an done yesterdays ferret racing at the british final

tinned dog food kinel whin,i bet their teeth are rank,give em some proper scran,they weren't given those teeth to eat shit from a can

 

edited to say, and feck knows what saps are

 

How long have you been here Craigy ?? and yeh still havnae learned not to listen to Whin !!! hahahahahaha

[Bunny Boiler 177]

I personally don't give mine rabbit "meat". I have so much in the form of off cuts, bird carcass and squirrel I never need to. They always get the lungs, liver, heart and kidneys from my rabbits, which get frozen in meal size portions, as well as me throwing in fresh eggs for calcium (they eat the shell) and protein. Plenty of fat around the kidneys on the winter Bunnies. Squirrels are shot regularly by me and I do beating at least once a week so they get a brace of pheasant carcass to nosh on. I have a little section in the hutch which they can only get to through about 2m of tubing snaked around the hutch which takes them above their "bedroom". All meat goes in here as the flies have no way of getting to it as it's a closed room. Perfect for summer months as my hutch is also in the shade all day, so it doesn't get hot.

 

Atb,

 

Bunny

 

Can I assume you keep all the rabbit meat for yourself ??

 

Yea, They go to the butchers. If I get one that's particularly small or young, the ferrets get it. I like to try and vary the day to day food of them, because if it was me, I'd get bored of the same meal every day, so why wouldn't ferrets?

 

ATB,

Bunny.

[Rake aboot 4,935]

Good stuff

 

TBH mkines go mental for rabbit, even when tehy get it all the time,, I have had a ferret that would not eat rabbit,, it preffered dry !! bizzare,, but true

 

Stuff the butcher mate,, get them in a curry

[Bunny Boiler 177]

I'm a 17 year old lad. Curry won't buy me beer. Besides, it's game pie for me, and I make small ones for myself because my family are nancy pancy "clean" meat eaters. I.e they prefer roast pork to a rabbit because rabbit is too rich for them. They're the same with all game... Pheasant, partridge, venison, pigeon, rabbit... Gaylords.

 

Atb,

 

Bunny.

[Rake aboot 4,935]

Bunny for beer,, ah!!! I remember them days !

[Bunny Boiler 177]

Aye, all my mates spend a Saturday in Sainsbuy's listening to the checkout beeps, whilst I listen to rabbit squeaks, and at the end of the day, I've had more fun, and usually earned more money than them... It's all good.

 

ATB,

 

Bunny.

[stealthy1 3,964]

Good stuff

 

TBH mkines go mental for rabbit, even when tehy get it all the time,, I have had a ferret that would not eat rabbit,, it preffered dry !! bizzare,, but true

 

Stuff the butcher mate,, get them in a curry

 

 

I have a skinny jill that wont eat meat, think the folk that gave her to me fed her on old meat or something, but she would die rather than eat a rabbit

[farmerkev09 105]

rabbit for me and the odd egg every now and then