Feeding whole rabbit

[Brian-911 210]

Anyone feeding any animal tinned food needs their head read.

 

Ferrets will eat pretty much any meat at all, but steer clear of stuff with added salt (pork products).

 

Mine get the full range of vermin / game, mostly frozen and defrosted in the summer (with dry food as an addition during the day).

 

In the winter, they usually get fresh killed game / vermin every day, and i always leave the skin on and try for a third of their weekly rabbits to leave the guts in, as i believe that this provides the 'full range' of nutrients etc.

 

One of the problems i do have is the meat freezing solid.

 

My lot will happily decimate a whole rabbit carcass in one sitting. When working they will go through two whole rabbits in a day sometimes.

 

I never gut birds as i cannot be arsed, but just clean it up when they are done eating.

 

They also get a decent amount of fish.

 

Bloody hell mate it's ferrets, anybody would think you were on about your kids ! Taking it a lil too serious me thinks lol

[The one 8,398]

Same here mate i feed rabbits because there so easy ,then birds preferably pigeon i like feeding during the winter as the feathers gather in the hutch and are extra bedding material and apart from a odd foot all thats left is the gizzard and thats easy picked up ,Fish is a odd treat as any rabbits i swap for fish are usually mine ,but when they get them you just have to remove the head .

 

One thing i tried and got nowhere was putting in a roe buck head and i thought they would clean it and leave me the skull and antlers ,but no joy they didnt touch it so venison a no no

[Ideation 8,216]

Anyone feeding any animal tinned food needs their head read.

 

Ferrets will eat pretty much any meat at all, but steer clear of stuff with added salt (pork products).

 

Mine get the full range of vermin / game, mostly frozen and defrosted in the summer (with dry food as an addition during the day).

 

In the winter, they usually get fresh killed game / vermin every day, and i always leave the skin on and try for a third of their weekly rabbits to leave the guts in, as i believe that this provides the 'full range' of nutrients etc.

 

One of the problems i do have is the meat freezing solid.

 

My lot will happily decimate a whole rabbit carcass in one sitting. When working they will go through two whole rabbits in a day sometimes.

 

I never gut birds as i cannot be arsed, but just clean it up when they are done eating.

 

They also get a decent amount of fish.

 

Bloody hell mate it's ferrets, anybody would think you were on about your kids ! Taking it a lil too serious me thinks lol

 

Alright sunshine, pray tell, why am "taking it too seriously", because i give them a good, healthy, mixed diet?

 

Just for the record i do take my ferrets very seriously, i expect them to work nearly every day in the winter and so believe that they deserve the best treatment i can give them, or i shouldnt have them.

 

Just like any stock, especially working animals.

 

But out of interest, what's too serious???

[Ideation 8,216]

Same here mate i feed rabbits because there so easy ,then birds preferably pigeon i like feeding during the winter as the feathers gather in the hutch and are extra bedding material and apart from a odd foot all thats left is the gizzard and thats easy picked up ,Fish is a odd treat as any rabbits i swap for fish are usually mine ,but when they get them you just have to remove the head .

 

One thing i tried and got nowhere was putting in a roe buck head and i thought they would clean it and leave me the skull and antlers ,but no joy they didnt touch it so venison a no no

 

 

My other big reason for the birds, is that rabbit has f**k all fat, and so if working hard, and only fed rabbit, i notice in winter, they begin to lose weight and condition after a while, and birds are packed with fat, so are good to bulk / build them up.

[The one 8,398]

Know what surprised me the amount of fat in chicken ,Ive been getting chicken carcasses and mincing them up for dog food after youve finished you have to get the power washer out to clean the fat off everything . So im going one day rabbit one day chicken to balance it out then

[Guest xSWEETCHEEKSx]

we feed our ferrets , rabbits , pigeons , the odd pheasant ,and give then an egg every now and then , not too often , as it can make them a bit loose

[Shogun62 1]

I have 2 hobs 24 months old iv been feeding them on minced pork beef other mince products. I also shoot got few rabbits skinned gut them quartered them and gave few bits but wont touch them same with pigeon any help would be appreciated 

[Arry 18,630]

I don't feed mine Rabbit I never have apart from a liver from time to time. For the same reason it's sometimes hard to change the diet of a ferret. It's just my way I don't want them staying on a rabbit they have killed feeding them selfs. Just my theory might not be right who know, sure I'm in for a bit of stick about it but it work for me. 

Cheers Arry

[socks 32,253]

15 minutes ago, Wideboy said:

Take all food away from them at 10pm them 1pm the next day put in your rabbit, no need to skin it. 

That’s way to long for a ferret to be without food they have a tiny digestive track and need to eat very frequently. 

[Shogun62 1]

I too dont want them killing in but have tried pigeon, partridge not bothered but i have abundance of game that wants removing i dont want to let it all go 

[Shogun62 1]

1 hour ago, Wideboy said:

I totally agree with you, mine are never without food, but if he has fussy ferrets

Im the same just trying to get them onto game and off of raw minces

[Netmaker 904]

Mine are feed rabbit [minced in the summer months so i can feed as and when ] or whole in the winter months

 

[The one 8,398]

Im feeding mine pheasants still got a load left from last year crammed 360 of them into the freezers from the last days shooting dont know if i will be getting them free this year maybe back to chicken carcasses 

[Ferretman65 2,123]

I feed mine rabbit rabbit and more rabbit lol and some chicken sometimes wood pigeons* in the summer I feed once a day np with that at all winter I hang half rabbit up in each cage that does them for a few days never fed them 5 or 6 time away if they were in the wild they wouldn't be eaten 5 or 6 times a Day and I still give my ferrets a drink of milk now and again fs years ago our ferrets were brought up on bread and milk with a egg mixed in 

[Ferretman65 2,123]

4 hours ago, Arry said:

I don't feed mine Rabbit I never have apart from a liver from time to time. For the same reason it's sometimes hard to change the diet of a ferret. It's just my way I don't want them staying on a rabbit they have killed feeding them selfs. Just my theory might not be right who know, sure I'm in for a bit of stick about it but it work for me. 

Cheers Arry

If it works for you then brilliant I alway said each to there own mate But what I will say feeding them rabbit doesn't make them stay with a rabbit it's pray drive mate