Feeding Fish.. Yes Or No?

[Jax13 251]

i'm a caterer and often give the ferrets or dogs any trimmings i have if there is anything worth having.

 

i've just prepped and filleted 2 large fresh salmon so have a lot of belly trim, neck end and tail end that is surplus to requirements.

 

before i poach it all for the dogs tea tonight i was wondering if any of you feed fish to the ferrets? if so, raw or cooked?

 

 

i'm assuming chucking a bit of diced raw fish into them won't do any harm al all but just thought i'd see what the advice was from those a bit more experienced than me!

[paulus 26]

i feed pike for years

[talt 878]

Two of the best litters i have had were reared exclusively on fish. I had a deal going with a lad who had a fish van and he would leave two bags of mixed fish and trimmings in the local phone box for me and i would pick them up on my way home from work. A word of advice though, clean them out daily because they do feckin hum.Edited to add that i mean clean the ferrets out daily not the phone box.

Edited August 28, 2015 by talt

[The one 8,481]

I try to give the ferrets any raw fish I can lay my hands on they enjoy it and it makes a nice change for them

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Yup, mine get fish occasionally. Mackerel and small carp. Only feed in small portions (or small fish) cos it goes bad quick in this heat.

[david jones 97]

I must have picky buggers here coz I have tried to feed them raw fish on more than one occasion brown trout, mackerel you name it iv tried.And all they have done is sniffed at it and then pissed off back in side there box.

Last year I was given a cooked goose carcass at Christmas thought 50 / 50 wether they eat it or not couldn't believe it they were like a plague of piranhas all over it in there court they loved it lol.

[OneManAndHisDog 513]

Yeah feed it to them raw now and again and they love it but personally I don't like feeding it them because it bloody stinks and attracts flys so if you do feed it to them give them a good clean the day after

[Jax13 251]

cheers folks.

 

ive split it into 6 small batches and diced it up to try and stop them hiding it (to be fair, mine don't normally cache their food they leave it in the bowl)

 

they battered through the majority in about 3 minutes so i reckon it'll be done by the morning - its all they've got in there at the moment before they get a bunny in the morning so shouldn't be too problematic.

[neil cooney 10,416]

i feed pike for years

Murderer.

[mushroom 12,989]

Yes they love it

 

Paul try eating the pike it's delicious but boney

[ruggers13 268]

i just give heads n tails but feking stinks so try not give as much atb

[mushroom 12,989]

I used to throw a whole trout every now and then between say 3-5lb to 7 ferrets and it would be gone by morning. They used to do the war dance once I'd teased 'em with it

[The one 8,481]

I asked the boy that drives a fish van about buying some scraps but he sells salmon and cod heads at 75 pence each who buys them and what do they do with just the heads ?

[Jamie m 668]

I asked the boy that drives a fish van about buying some scraps but he sells salmon and cod heads at 75 pence each who buys them and what do they do with just the heads ?

Stock

[mushroom 12,989]

I asked the boy that drives a fish van about buying some scraps but he sells salmon and cod heads at 75 pence each who buys them and what do they do with just the heads ?

Very good fish soup