Day Old Chicks To Ferrets

[theworkingferret 56]

when giving day olds as treats to the ferrets do they need to be yolked ?

[Ratsmasher 36]

No mate just throw them in the stinkers will eat the lot

[Guest vin]

not much grub in them day old chicks for a ferret though..more fluff and skin than meat..Chicken wings would be better option.Or obviously Rabbit if poss.

[Ideation 8,216]

I give them to mine sometimes, just as a wee treat.

[youcanthide...BANG 1,051]

i tend to find they like the yolk best but dont give them too often one a week as it can give them the shits just like eggs

[theworkingferret 56]

not much grub in them day old chicks for a ferret though..more fluff and skin than meat..Chicken wings would be better option.Or obviously Rabbit if poss.

they get rabbit chicken etc just got a box of day olds for treats as i like to feed a good varity

[GreyRake 108]

Like the guys have said DOCs are good occasionally, but from what I've read it's not enough for their full diet needs.

[chook1 184]

Feed them to mine quite often, as well as mice and young rats, they have dried in all the time as well,

but like said there's not much on them.

[The one 8,493]

Just a bit fluff in a egg fine for a odd day but no muscle content and very little else

[Hands of Stone 154]

Last summer I worked on a game farm, i had loads of chicks for the ferts, the ferts love em, but you do have to give em food with a bit more nutrition in it aswell

[The one 8,493]

Think it was Mckay in his book warned about the fluff on a d.o.c irritating the mucus on the ferrets throat

[bobcullen79 1,495]

I`ll never feed Doc`s to a ferret again, apart from being eggs in a fluffy shell, I caught salmonella off them when I was 21, which resulted in a week of sickness and diarrhea, then a trip to the doctors, then hospital, then a finger (felt like a thumb) up my jacksie and finally my appendix out, only to get ill again when I left hospital.. I was a bit rough that month

[patterdalejoel 669]

any chicks i hatech that arent 100% fit go straight to the ferrets, they go mental for them.

[Guest vin]

all I know and remember from the good old days of flying birds of Prey..the day old chicks were ok..but not the main staple diet..and you always added SA37 mutivitamin/nutriant powder to the chick to add a bit of what was lacking for the bird..you could always tell a captive bird that was solely fed on chicks in the old days by the pale skin on its legs and beak.(not yellow like it should be).a few weeks on the SA37 usually helped remedy that and get the bird looking healthier.

 

Scooby snacks for ferrets along with some propper grub like Wabbits ! woodies...mmmm now yer talking.

[walnutwhip 12]

Got a ferret on order my daughter cant wait and will be using with my goshawk ie white ferret.

Already purchased some Alpha and vitalin food but was going to use Day old chicks and ox heart as there available with the hawk, so tried to do some research on the nutritional value of Docs...

 

Must be one of the most difficult items to find out but apparently theres:

 

64% Protein

22.4% Fat

6.4% Ash

 

5.8 Kcal/g The important bit - So they do contain reasonable nutritional content hope this helps...