To gut or not to gut

[fergie 0]

As some of you may know i get free cockerals to feed to my ferrets and all i do with these is throw them in as they are guts feathers and all. but for some reason i always seem to gut my rabbits in the field where they are shot or caught. However i have a few in my freezer that have not been dressed so for the very first time i have fed them a whole rabbit guts and all i was just thinking of the above question?

[moxy 617]

Guts out, without a doubt.

 

When you are carrying large numbers of rabbits about you dont need that excess weight.

 

Not to mention that its a lot more mess to clean up and get rid of at home, if you leave the guts in.

 

Theres my vote for you :sick:

[Jef66 0]

All ours cheerily munch their way thro guts, be it chicken, rabbit or woodie. plenty of nutritious stuff for hungry ferrets

 

 

Moxys point is fair tho, if ya carrying a pile of rabbits about gutting em means less weight to lug across the countryside. One chap that provides rabbits for us always delivers them gutted apart from the kidneys.

[richie 1]

gut them without a doubt....

[stubby 175]

I think you have answered it yourself, if lugging rabbits across a field, you'd gut them, but picked up in motor, or delivered, then as they come

[scothunter 12,609]

Always take the guts out

[jazz_11 5]

i feed my ferrets at the moment dry and birds such as crows or woodies, when you feed them rabbits do you freeze them first to get rid of all the fleas and ticks....

[scothunter 12,609]

i feed my ferrets at the moment dry and birds such as crows or woodies, when you feed them rabbits do you freeze them first to get rid of all the fleas and ticks....

 

I dont but some lads do jazz.Gave mine rabbits that are still warm neva dun them no harm.

[scothunter 12,609]

I can just see you will fighting with your ferts over a rabbit

[The one 8,482]

Last year when i was feeding mine cockerels i put the lot in guts as well ,But when im ferreting i usaully wait till the end of the day and dig a hole and do the rabbits all at once .But when im lamping and ive got a few and its a 5 am finish i leave them till ive had some kip and gut them into plastic buckets to use for fox baits

[BULL 96]

defo out those buggers do get heavey

[undisputed 1,664]

Whole rabbits gut's an all....ferrets will eat the lot lots of essential trace elements in rabbit guts and offal

[victor 10]

deffantly gut them as i just dont like the idea of the ferrets eating s#*t

 

edited to say: i thort that ferrets could get worms from eating rabbit bows and stoumach??

Edited October 1, 2008 by victor

[Malt 379]

Whole rabbits gut's an all....ferrets will eat the lot lots of essential trace elements in rabbit guts and offal

Spot on. It's often overlooked when it comes to a meat/bone diet, (BARF or whatever trendy fecking name you might want to give it!) that as you're trying to give the animal their 'natural' diet, you should include some trace elements of vegetation to mimic the stomach contents of their wild prey, as it is needed for a complete diet. The easiest way to do this is to feed whole.

 

...and before anybody jumps in and says that their ferrets seem OK without it, in my dad's day, ferrets often lived for 8 or 9 years on bread & milk, it didn't mean it was good for them....

[cumbrianrabbiter 0]

i always take the guts out less waight to carry and less work to do when i get home tiered