Valor was was fond of apples, carrots, and pumpkin too. This was okay for my dog, because while dogs are classified as carnivores, they pretty much omnivores these days.
Ferrets have short small intestines and can not digest fruits, vegetables, and grains. Ferrets should only eat meat and fat, and they need to avoid grains, fruit, and vegetables.
So what do you feed a ferret? There are options, depending on what you & # 39; re willing to do.
The natural diet
Some people feed their ferrets the most natural diet they can. Ferrets are descended from European polecats, and European polecats eat mice and other small rodents, rabbits, voles, and frogs. They & # 39; ll also eat snakes and fish. So, ferrets on a natural diet only eat mice and chicken.
The cooked diet
Take the food above, mice, chicken, and whatever else you can stomach to cook, and cook it. Why do this? Bacteria such as salmonella make our fuzzy babies just as sick as they make us.
Remember all the bones from your coffee meat in a fair amount of water. Make sure you get the temperature of kill off the bacteria. When it comes time to buy a stick blender. Pour the meat and water mixture into ice cube trays and freeze. (This is one version of "duck soup" which is used to feed sick and elderly weasels.
The kibble diet
This is the easiest diet, and probably the most expensive too. Make sure you buy ferret food. Make sure the food All kibble has some grain in it, but get as little as you can.
What do I feed my ferrets?
My ferrets get kibble. The sick and elderly get "duck soup," which is an interesting name because I make it with chicken and not duck. Kibble is convenient, and my guys seem to like it just as as they like like cooked chicken and duck soup. I supplement their kibble with trips. They are particularly fond of "Vivify," which is made by Performance Foods, Inc. They also like it when I sprinkle "Complete Care" powder on their food.
