bread and milk

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how come many used to feed bread and milk as ferret diet i can not understand and when i was kid i new one or two that did and i told them no good at all fur or feather meat biscuit

[hegaross 2]

i feed it to my ferrets when i have no other food for them and i know alot of peaple that do the same but i dont give it to them that much only the odd time

[reddawn 2,173]

i feed it to my ferrets when i have no other food for them and i know alot of peaple that do the same but i dont give it to them that much only the odd time

 

why??? would you give a hamster some bacon becuase you run out of hamster food

 

milk an bread for ferrets is a lot of shite feed it flesh like it should be or atleast buy it decent ferret biscuits ffs

[Rake aboot 4,935]

Jeez,, surprised this one still comes up

 

Saps is SHIT for a ferret,, they are meat eaters,, and are also Lactose intolarent,, meaning milk is very bad for them,, it used to be fed through ignorance and poverty,, or both,, but there is no need for it today,,

 

do not feed saps,, at all,, if you don`t have the proper food for a ferret,, maybe you should not keep them,, this is a general statement not aimed at anyone,, but if yer reading this,, and the hat fits!!!

[Ideation 8,216]

Some people once thought the world was flat. It was because they were ignorant, under educated on the matter, or just followed the trend. Same with the bread and milk.

[The one 8,477]

Think they just got fed on that because any rabbits they caught where a luxury for big families at that time and they couldn't be spared to fed the poor ferret . Maybe these days with the shortage of rabbits guys are looking at alternative food sources but saps isn't it

[Trev Smilerface 38]

Never ever have i fed mine bread and milk ...................................may as well give him a chocolate bar to go with it. :whistling:

[steviek51 9]

http://www.eafa.org.....aspx?g=1080336 Hope this link works,the old chap mentions this subject, atb Steve. OOPS sorry use the link then go to page 19 bygone ferrets, I,m a complete numpty on these links Edited January 6, 2012 by steviek51

[Trev Smilerface 38]

http://www.eafa.org.....aspx?g=1080336 Hope this link works,the old chap mentions this subject, atb Steve.

 

Which film theres hundreds :hmm:

[steviek51 9]

Hi just follow as instructed in the edit, go to link, then jump to page 19 , scroll down to bygones ferret, cheers atb Steve.

[Trev Smilerface 38]

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/203805 found it....canny old fella. I love the old timers talking ferreting pure history ....nice find

[steviek51 9]

Thank god for that!, I made a right pigs ear of the link, anway glad you found and enjoyed it, there,s loads of old bygone times on there when you have nowt else to do, great site, all the best Steve.

[Trev Smilerface 38]

Used to live in norfolk just outside Thetford in a place called Methwold Hythe.....was milking cows and working on a pig farm. Nice one there about the old gamekeeper at Elvedon.

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

Intrested to read that some of the ardent defenders of the the no locator thread saying in the old days we never used this or that but use the same line in the milk @ bread thread .

Bread and milk was use across the country along with no locators and we all now know that slops have no place in modern ferret keeping along with some other out of date practices in the ownership @ working of the modern ferret.

 

It stand to reason if cant fed proper food to your ferret then maybe you should not keep them.And the same could be said for if you cant afford a locator then maybe you shoukd not work them.

 

ATB Cookie

Edited January 6, 2012 by cookiemonsterandmerlin

[paulus 26]

sops theres a blast from the past, feeding sops was very common people believed if you only fed sops then the fert would not know what meat was and wouldnt lay up after a kill, they also cut the cannine teeth off or used a muzzle thank god all these practacies are now resigned to history