That's been one of my questions for years as well. In the wild, no human dictates what animals eat; they swallow whatever they want - bones, fur, etc., with no seeming ill effect. Yet, you give a domesticated dog or cat (certain) bones, and they're dead.

Here, we, with domesticated ferrets, concern ourselves with blockages and such, yet their wild cousins seem to have no problem with it.

Which brings up another question: does the fat content of rodents help to lubricate the ferrets and keep things flowing.

Also, what is the fat content of rabbits and rats?

Also, do ferrets feed on such things yack up a "pellet" like an owl will, or hack up a fur ball like cats do?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Gary

good question gary i know that rabbit isnt all that for hawks and is rather poor for us if we keep eating it as for rat it is high in all goodness (vits and mins) the best way to put it is this and how i work it for my hawk
she hunts at a weight of 2lb 5oz to keep her at this weight i have to give her just the right amount of food or she'll be to heavy and wont come back so 3 whole chicks/2.5 oz of rabbit will hold her at that weight but a rat of 1.6 oz will do the same if i gave her a rat of 2.5 oz she would go upto 2lb 6.3oz and not want to hunt but things like quail or phezzys i can only give her an oz or she go sky high

as for ferrets with pellets or fur balls no they dont it all comes out in there poop mine pass feathers and all sorts and if they have to many rats there poop turns abit jellyfide /runny

as for bones in dogs what people dont think about is a foxes life in the wild is only about 2-3 years but in captiverty can be past 10 same as wolfs they ave 6-7 years in the wild and 12-15 in captiverty dogs are to far from there wild side and there body has changed cos we've made it that way same as our ferrets as much as they love to hunt and can/will kill they are man made and you have to be carefull when feeding unless you know that there family tree goes back a long way as hunters mine come from 6 generations of hunters so evolotion (sp) has helped them cope with hunting and eating the food we feed them
you wouldnt have a tiger born in a zoo and just let it go back in the jungle it would just die as most of its bloodlines and breed in zoos so 40% of its wild instincs(sp) have gone

I would love to feed them Wysong but it is not available here and with all those new rules for in and exporting
food plus the amount of taxes they put over it once it arrives in this country makes it hard to order it.
That is if the shops in the US are even willing to ship to the EU.
Totally Ferret originally came from the US but a few years ago a German company Bosch took over and started
to change the recipe. Some ferrets got sick because people wouldn't mix the old with the new.
On the list of dry food TF is not doing bad but cheaper brands like James Wellbeloved is not on the list of good
food because it has too much grains in it. For us Dutch folk it's either Totally Ferret or NRF but it's hard to find
good healthy raw food that has no hormones and other crap in it. A piece of meat that had a good and healthy
life before ending up on your plate costs 3 times the money those poor mistreated chickens and other animals
cost.

Chicken hearts and necks are hard to get these days incl. other parts. There used to be a lot of those special
poultry shops that would sell anything to do with chicken and birds but they got swatted by big supermarkets
and their cheap bad meat.

Chicken hearts were used in chicken soup here in NL, we'd also give them to cats and dogs and I am sure the
ferrets will love it! At least Flex and Riddick will...

Wysong needs to expand to Europe
If he does that he needs to make sure they use the same recipe as he does, no changes!
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