Feeding/beding Help For New Ferreters

[dayle 7]

hi guys a haven seen eny info about food and what to feed and what not to feed on this just wondering what yous all prefer

just pick a number and say why you do this plz

 

 

1 dont be so fooking stupid....................................edited by paulus

2 mice dead

3 dry ferret food

4 cat meat

5 dog mead

6 rabbits (dead)

7 poultry live/or dead

8 fish dead

9 mince meat

10 and old school bread and milk

 

and what bedding do you prefer

1 shavings

2 saw dust

3 straw

4 paper

5 old cloth it will be nice to see what some of you pick and hope it helps eny buddy that needs it atb

[paulus 26]

ive edited your post, why not just ask what people feed and use as bedding infact do a search in the search bar and everything you will ever want to know will already be on here somewhere

[AirgunGuy 362]

Raw meat during the colder months...beef, rabbit, fish etc and dry ferret food during the summer months to prevent flies. Feeding saps, cat food etc is a thing of the past as they don't have the correct make up for ferrets so it's best to feed the proper foods. For bedding i have small fleece blankets and shavings in their toilet area

[dayle 7]

this post is not for me its a couple of peeps a knew keep asking me so a thought a would ask but every little help loll

[The one 8,503]

Any meat or fish and plenty clean water all year round .And just shaving's

[GreyRake 108]

Dry kibble/rabbit and mince

 

Fleeces

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Dry cat biscuits. Tinned cat meat. Whole fresh rabbit. Chicken carcass. Tripe.

 

Bedding shredded paper. We have got a cross shredder at work and it produces small 2" strips of paper. Perfect free bedding. Easy to clean out. Absorbent. Warm.

[Rob Greenhill 2]

veriaty of raw meats e.g. pigeons, rabbits, pheasants(in season) and corvids but not so much in the hot weather. during summer james wellbeloved ferret seems to keep them in good nick.

 

for bedding shavings through out the floor of the hutches and shredded paper of the nesting areas.

 

ATB

 

rob

[Country Joe 1,411]

Its not rocket science Winter Months and early Spring, where there are no Flies about, Feed Rabbit, Summertime feed complete, or rabbit pieces put in at night, then taken out in morning, to stop fly blown.

Cold Winter Weather, straw, warmer weather shavings.

These subjects have been brought up many times, maybe better doing a search first.

Edited April 18, 2013 by Country Joe

[The one 8,503]

Its not rocket science Winter Months and early Spring, where there are no Flies about, Summertime feed complete, or rabbit pieces put in at night, then taken out in morning, to stop fly blown.

Cold Winter Weather, straw, warmer weather shavings.

These subjects have been brought up many times, maybe better doing a search first.

Except i dont like straw or any other hollow stem plant to use as bedding unless its been treated there might be bugs in the stems

[johnny boy68 11,726]

Dry cat biscuits. Tinned cat meat. Whole fresh rabbit. Chicken carcass. Tripe.

 

Bedding shredded paper. We have got a cross shredder at work and it produces small 2" strips of paper. Perfect free bedding. Easy to clean out. Absorbent. Warm.

Cat products are for cats not ferrets, if you can't feed meat get a ferret kibble, ferrets have a very fast digestion so cat biscuits and cat food give them very little nutrition.

[Country Joe 1,411]

Its not rocket science Winter Months and early Spring, where there are no Flies about, Feed Rabbit, Summertime feed complete, or rabbit pieces put in at night, then taken out in morning, to stop fly blown.

Cold Winter Weather, straw, warmer weather shavings.

These subjects have been brought up many times, maybe better doing a search first.

have added to above.

 

ive maybe been lucky, never been bothered with bugs in the straw, I only would use straw if Ferts were on their own, in really hard Weather.

If they are doubled up, or more, shavings is enough, as they get heat from each other,

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

Dry cat biscuits. Tinned cat meat. Whole fresh rabbit. Chicken carcass. Tripe.

 

Bedding shredded paper. We have got a cross shredder at work and it produces small 2" strips of paper. Perfect free bedding. Easy to clean out. Absorbent. Warm.

Cat products are for cats not ferrets, if you can't feed meat get a ferret kibble, ferrets have a very fast digestion so cat biscuits and cat food give them very little nutrition.

I feed meat 90% of the time and always leave a bowl of dry cat biscuits for them to graze on.

 

I've done it for years and never had any problems. Cat meat is just meat in jelly. I feed this a couple of times a week and they love it.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

 

 

 

 

Dry cat biscuits. Tinned cat meat. Whole fresh rabbit. Chicken carcass. Tripe.

 

Bedding shredded paper. We have got a cross shredder at work and it produces small 2" strips of paper. Perfect free bedding. Easy to clean out. Absorbent. Warm.

Cat products are for cats not ferrets, if you can't feed meat get a ferret kibble, ferrets have a very fast digestion so cat biscuits and cat food give them very little nutrition.

I feed meat 90% of the time and always leave a bowl of dry cat biscuits for them to graze on.

 

I've done it for years and never had any problems. Cat meat is just meat in jelly. I feed this a couple of times a week and they love it.

My dogs love cat food but I wouldn't feed them it Gaz, it just goes straight through the ferrets. Ferret kibble is widely available these days so no reason to cut corners with cat kibble or tinned meat imo.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dry cat biscuits. Tinned cat meat. Whole fresh rabbit. Chicken carcass. Tripe.

 

Bedding shredded paper. We have got a cross shredder at work and it produces small 2" strips of paper. Perfect free bedding. Easy to clean out. Absorbent. Warm.

Cat products are for cats not ferrets, if you can't feed meat get a ferret kibble, ferrets have a very fast digestion so cat biscuits and cat food give them very little nutrition.

I feed meat 90% of the time and always leave a bowl of dry cat biscuits for them to graze on.

 

I've done it for years and never had any problems. Cat meat is just meat in jelly. I feed this a couple of times a week and they love it.

My dogs love cat food but I wouldn't feed them it Gaz, it just goes straight through the ferrets. Ferret kibble is widely available these days so no reason to cut corners with cat kibble or tinned meat imo.

Each to their own