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| Duck soup......part 4 |
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| From Juliana Quadrozzi
FERRET BUSINESS of GA I'd like to add my simple recipe for supplemental feeding. I wanted to mix up a soup that would be accepted & enjoyed by ferrets with insulinoma, so it doesn't have any of the additional sugars. I use it in addition to the regular diet, which is available at all times, to help maintain an even nutritional balance to help stabilize their sugar level. It's usually readily accepted by most ferrets without any need for hand or force feedings. 2 cups kibble (ferret's regular diet) 1 cup Purina Kitten Chow 3 tsp brewers yeast 2 cans Science Diet AD 2 jars baby food - chicken, lamb, turkey (optional) Pet Authority Acidophilus+ liquid Ground the kibbles to a fine power in a blender or food processor, add brewers yeast & mix together. In a 3 qt container, add enough water to keep powered ingredients liquid & mix. Continue to add water as needed to keep it liquid or it will stiffen to concrete & be very hard to mix. In a separate container mix Science Diet & baby food (optional) & add water to bring to a liquidy consistency. Pour into 3 qt container & mix together. Beat, beat, beat with an electric mixer until smooth. As the kibble absorbs the water the mixture will become stiffer. Add water to keep a soupy consistency. The mixture will "grow" to 2 qts+ - give or take depending on how your preferred kibble diet swells & how sludgy or soupy your ferret prefers his/her gruel. You can freeze the mixture in ice cube trays or keep it refrigerated in a sealed container for a week. When serving, microwave serving in a small dish (use Pyrex or Corningware to prevent chemical leaching from dish into mixture). Experiment with temperature, some ferrets like it warm, luke warm, & sometimes even cool in the summer. Once the mixture is at your ferret's preferred temperature, then add 1/2 cc Acidophilus (heating kills the beneficial active cultures). For ferrets suffering from insulinoma, serve 10-15cc (2 ozs) 2-3x/day to supplement regular diet. I've also used this recipe to add extra weight on skinny ferrets. Your ferret's poop may be a little looser & stronger smelling (because of the brewers yeast I think) & they will probably urinate more. |
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| From Monica Maples
Heat 1 cup water, add about a 12 raisins and let steep Heat 1 cup water, add 1 cup Iams Growth Formula and let soak after a couple hours, add raisin tea to Iams food and add: 2 tblsp Ferretone 2 tblsp Ferretvite 2 tblsp oil (olive, flax, etc.) Mix in blender and serve....Yummy or so the ferrets say!! :) |