would like to know what other people feed there ferrets

[stealthy1 3,964]

I'll try a wok next time, room for two at a time, could turn into an endurance race, could put the winner back in the fridge as a prize eh!

[Funfuret 1]

I'm up in Scotland visiting family for New Year, I'm taking my ferrets, what I want to know is, can you use the same purse net for haggis as you do for rabbits or do you need special round nets?

 

Oh god i had forgot about the haggis are they as vicious as a pepperoni

Kay, you have obviously never tried to get a live haggis out of a purse net. It's a bloody nightmare i tell you.

But the kids love steamed haggis, so i do it so as not to let them down....

 

One of lives little chores

 

 

Matt

 

So they put up a good fight then , just as i suspected how do you dispatch them though with them being round

 

Bite like buggers the haggis, a word of warning! only use big hobs because I had a ferret swollowed by a haggis, its head was stuck out one end and its tail was hanging out the other, had to cut the haggis in half to release it.

 

Thats shocking , i asked the butcher to get me a haggis on monday i think i better get some welding gloves when i buy it off him , sound right nasty sods

 

You'll need the welding gloves. Had a haggis for tea tonight. Had a helluva problem trying to get it out of the plastic bag and it spat allover the oven

Edited November 20, 2008 by Funfuret

[Kay 3,709]

I'm up in Scotland visiting family for New Year, I'm taking my ferrets, what I want to know is, can you use the same purse net for haggis as you do for rabbits or do you need special round nets?

 

Oh god i had forgot about the haggis are they as vicious as a pepperoni

Kay, you have obviously never tried to get a live haggis out of a purse net. It's a bloody nightmare i tell you.

But the kids love steamed haggis, so i do it so as not to let them down....

 

One of lives little chores

 

 

Matt

 

So they put up a good fight then , just as i suspected how do you dispatch them though with them being round

 

Bite like buggers the haggis, a word of warning! only use big hobs because I had a ferret swollowed by a haggis, its head was stuck out one end and its tail was hanging out the other, had to cut the haggis in half to release it.

 

Thats shocking , i asked the butcher to get me a haggis on monday i think i better get some welding gloves when i buy it off him , sound right nasty sods

 

You'll need the welding gloves. Had a haggis for tea tonight. Had a helluva problem trying to get it out of the plastic bag and it spat allover the oven

 

I think i better put some weld mesh over the meat tin when i cook mine then

[Kay 3,709]

I'll try a wok next time, room for two at a time, could turn into an endurance race, could put the winner back in the fridge as a prize eh!

I think a George Forman would be better you cant trap it in the lid

[stealthy1 3,964]

Probably look more decretive with the grill lines, if I ever get on ready steady cook I'm taking a haggis on with me, hows that for a quickie bag Ainsley!

[Kay 3,709]

Probably look more decretive with the grill lines, if I ever get on ready steady cook I'm taking a haggis on with me, hows that for a quickie bag Ainsley!

 

Dont think his fairy soft hands could deal with an angry haggis , you need Keith Floyd

[bigphil 0]

Haggis are elusive scottish creatures.

According to some sources, the wild haggis's left legs are of different length than its right legs, allowing it to run quickly around the steep mountains and hillsides, but only in one direction.

It is further claimed that there are two varieties of haggis, one with longer left legs and the other with longer right legs.

The former variety can run clockwise around a mountain while the latter can run anticlockwise.

The two varieties coexist peacefully but are unable to interbreed in the wild because in order for the male of one variety to mate with a female of the other, he must turn to face in the same direction as his intended mate, causing him to lose his balance before he can mount her.

As a result of this difficulty, differences in leg length among the Haggis population are accentuated.

 

You can tell them at a distance because they croopy sideways when they sit down.

 

This is to funny.

 

a recent survey carried out by Hall’s Haggis revealed that Americans often put haggis hunting on their must-do list when visiting Scotland.

 

Perhaps such myths surround the haggis because nobody has ever been able to verify the specific origins of this strange species. Some compare it to a Greek or Roman sausage-like dish; others credit French cuisine and the Auld Alliance as the word haggis could have come from the French verb ‘hacher’ – to chop or mangle, although they now honour its Scottish connections by calling it ‘Puding de St Andre’. Heaven forbid, it’s even been recognised as being similar to English faggots.

 

The question about what’s actually in a real haggis is perhaps best left unanswered, so if you don’t want to know, then avert your eyes now…

Recipes for haggis are fiercely guarded from award-winning producers vying to make the tastiest, but basic ingredients include a mixture of the minced heart, lungs and liver of a sheep, pig or cow mixed with suet, onions, oatmeal, spices and seasoning boiled in the stomach of the slaughtered animal (or more contemporary synthetic equivalent). It is a lot nicer than it sounds and modern demand has called for the introduction of tinned haggis as well as a vegetarian alternative (called a ‘Jessie’ by McKean’s) that substitutes pulses and vegetables for the meat in the dish. Fine food lovers may appreciate Mckean’s Smoked Monarch variety, made from venison, while Hall’s of Broxburn, near Edinburgh, is the world’s largest haggis producer, making three and a half million pork-based haggis per year.

 

SO HAGGIS IS A DISH NOT A ANIMAL.....

 

Just thought id clear that up for people like ME who (Not so long back haha) actually thought there was such thing as haggis (in a animal type) lol.

Edited November 21, 2008 by bigphil

[nightstalker321 2]

dry food rabbits hares crows fox roadkill venison squrriel pigeon tripe fish toast eggs liver pheasants partridge stoats weasals rats ducks anything that has been smashed by shot

i feed mine cat biscuits once a day and they are in very well condison

[Cornio 0]

dry food rabbits hares crows fox roadkill venison squrriel pigeon tripe fish toast eggs liver pheasants partridge stoats weasals rats ducks anything that has been smashed by shot

i feed mine cat biscuits once a day and they are in very well condison

 

Cat biscuits don't have the same protein levels that a ferret requires.

Ferrets have shorter digestive tracts and require higher levels of protein and fat than a cat or dog would.

If you're buying cat biscuits, why not buy the proper ferret ones?

[Mat 0]

I feed mine on alpha ferret food only £11.50 for 10KG i think thats a good deal and about the same price as cat biscuits.