Good Cheap Food For Ferrets

[foxtails 272]

alpha ferret feast i feed mine on, they love it !, but id try them on something else if someone thinks its got better benifits , also 3/4 times a week carcasses, atb mate foxtails

[The one 8,467]

Fill a couple of freezers in the winter with rabbits and it does the ferrets till its nearly time to start again

[patterdalejoel 669]

 

 

I good time of year for them.. with flapppers - Brachers..

 

Dirty tho full of lice, I would freeze them first.. Had a bag full once whole bad was moving

ya cant beat a good dales crow! lice.... must be a southern thing

He's more northern than you! You plonker!! Lol

 

 

bet you use typhoo tea bags you soft twat... i have yorkshire puddings and bovril everyday for breakfast

[Giro 2,648]

:laugh:

[Deej 22]

Bovril the only stuff that makes it into my flask!

[Daniel cain 45,130]

best food is 'HEDGEROW MUTTON'

f**k ALL OUT OF A TIN OR SACK

[Aussie Whip 4,092]

Bread and milk,the beauty being the shit goes straight through the mesh cage floor.Cheap too.Ferrets live a good year or two then die of gastro,but with ferrets at $20 Aussie dollars,who cares

[beany01 223]

none of mine will touch dry food, but you look at the ingredients and they all have plant protein in them, so its not exactly the best for them. A localish butcher sells 500g bags of minced chicken carcass, beef trimmings and liver for 60p, so they get half a bag of that in the morning that they soon eat as its soft, then I put a chunk of rabbit in the evening. Its got to be far better than that dry crap for them. Also I feed the hearts and kidneys from the rabbits too, So 9 ferrets cost £2 a week in meat and then they each get a egg yolk a week, so another £2. Its cheap as chips, and is far better than any dry crap. If you get out shooting and ferreting, why feed the dry crap to them? 

[The one 8,467]

Same here one wholesale butcher will sell me boxes of chicken Caracasess with the wings breast and legs removed 50pence a kilo , another will sell what he calls bags of chicken bones for a pound for five kilos the scraps he removes from the chickens and as the carcasses go out of date he slices them into inch slices to stop humans eating them , Out a pound bag I can feed 12 ferrets for a week and the dogs can get two days worth of scraps in there meat , but I've still 150 ,200 pheasants in two freezers to last till I'm ferreting again.  . So all it costs me to feed my stuff all summer is a bit of planning and the elect to run three 6 foot freezers 

[ginger beard 4,652]

11 hours ago, Aussie Whip said:

Bread and milk,the beauty being the shit goes straight through the mesh cage floor.Cheap too.Ferrets live a good year or two then die of gastro,but with ferrets at $20 Aussie dollars,who cares

Thought you were better thsn thst.i hope thats an unfunny joke.

[Aussie Whip 4,092]

6 hours ago, ginger beard said:

Thought you were better thsn thst.i hope thats an unfunny joke.

Yeah,I only have two ferrets atm and they are 9 years old,still healthy and working.They get good tucker lol.Just posted it to outline what was common practice here years ago,and it was the attitude in those days.Hope I didn't steer any newbies the wrong way.I like my ferrets more than I like most people.

[Arry 21,532]

IMO we all think we have the answer, I still give this subject a lot of thought. Personally I give them a feed of mince beef in the morning and in the evening about 12 grams each feed for each ferret. This I do while they are in a run that's on the lawn with tubes box hammock etc, they can't run of to the nest box and hind it. If they go back in the hutch then I have a bowl of JWB or Alpha and after the evening feed in the run again a hand full of the same. I have never fed rabbit apart from heads when they where young and livers heart kidneys, they do get an egg once a week. The theory with no rabbit is I don't want them stopping on a kill and IMO it works, every body to their own. Mince beef is cheap if you wait for the offers and if is cheap it usually has quite a high fat content which ferrets need, I think is about 20% fat needed. I don't have a problem with dry as long as its not dry only.

This site is well worth a look not just for food but for sickness and well being. 

http://ferretinfo.co.uk/feeding-ferrets/4541939155

Cheers Arry

[socks 32,253]

Meat meat and more meat ........

[ArchieHood 3,692]

Maybe you shud a listened..........