Good Food For Young Ferrets

[Ferret kent 12g 17]

Hi all , I'm getting two gills and would like to know/ask if anyone can tell me what's best?

If do shooting most night so they would get rabbit that have been shot and went older would like to put them to work.. I had a ferret when I was a kid (about 8yrs old) am now 25 and can't remember much... Help please

 

Thanks

[shealy1 71]

Good fresh raw meat mate cant get any better

[Ferret kent 12g 17]

Should I mix with dry biscuits ? If so what ones should I get? And can I feed them pigeon breast ?

Thanks for the help?

[Katsdad 31]

They will eat just about anything been feeding mine rabbit chicken dry food and today they have had a little raw pet mince this morning and tonight they have had a mackeral.

Where abouts in Kent are you I'm near whitstable.

[Ferret kent 12g 17]

I'm in Rochester , I shoot a lot of rabbit so they will have them and pigeons , the only problem I have is the wife saying they smell to much?

Do gills smell as bad as hobs , coz I had a friends hob for about a week ( he went away on holiday ) and it did smell??

[krawnden 1,036]

Hobs are smellier than jills (unless castrated in which case they hardly smell at all).

 

Whole rabbit supplemented with pigeon breast will be a great diet. Only thing to beware of in the summer is not to give too much at one sitting or it'll get fly blown. A couple of jills will probably only need about a quarter of a rabbit a day (depending on size of jills and size of rabbit of course), so I'd suggest quartering each rabbit and bagging it separately before freezing. Then every day just get out the next day's food to defrost.

[Ferret kent 12g 17]

Thank you for all your help but there is one more think , what if I hit a slow patch when shooting what other foods can I buy or feed them??

Thank

[The one 8,594]

Fresh meat and plenty of it and clean drinking water is all they require

[Ferret kent 12g 17]

?? thank you

[The one 8,594]

You can buy a box of chicken carcasses for a few quid mate

[Ferret kent 12g 17]

Where would be best to get them from??

Was going to have a chat with the butcher tomorrow.

[dogger 100]

rabbits,pigeons,crows,magpies,pheasants,woodcock,duck,goose,squirrels all fed raw and whole, fur, feathers and bone all good feeding for ferrets

[Fennster16 29]

Fish, pinkies, pheasant, liver, heart, rabbits pigeon. You name it you can give it! And an egg for a treat ;-)

[CharlieSlade 14]

To avoid the flies coming to the raw meat in the summer, you could give them the food in the evening when it gets a lot cooler

[The one 8,594]

rabbits,pigeons,crows,magpies,pheasants,woodcock,duck,goose,squirrels all fed raw and whole, fur, feathers and bone all good feeding for ferrets

Aye yours is going to get all that when they come there holidays and a few things they havent seen Rabbits