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Date: | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:44:19 -0500 |
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Hi Everyone! Rocky loves raw chicken and egg yolk, and chicken gravy
and would eat it all the time if I gave it to him. I like the idea of
feeding him chicken, but he's only been getting what I buy for myself,
which is boneless, skinless chicken breast (no antibiotics/hormones and
cage free/humane). He seems to like it best raw. What can I give him
that would be more nutritionally complete? Chicken wings? Do I have to
chop it up?
I don't think I can deal with feeding him mice (definitely not live).
I do have kibble out all the time, but given the choice, he'll take raw
chicken over kibble. Since I started cooking for him, he will not eat
ANY processed food, like canned cat/kitten or baby food, nor will he eat
any cooked chicken from a restaurant or deli. He never ate raw chicken
until I started buying the good kind, which I did not for myself but for
the sake of the chickens. One day he tried to climb into the fridge and
I thought he was going after fruit but the only thing on the bottom shelf
was a fresh package of chicken. I couldn't believe he wanted it because
in the past he only liked it breaded and fried LOL. When I took the
package out and opened it, he looked up at me (you know that look), so I
cut off a little piece and was amazed that he ate it. Now he's crazy
about it. He would never eat turkey at all until I bought some from the
farmer's market. Also prefers it raw. Same with eggs, only raw yolks
(or warmed but still liquid). He loves butter too.
I guess all the times he begged for fruit and I kept telling him, "You're
a carnivore and carnivores eat meat" finally sunk in!
Rocky just turned 5 yrs. old, and is my first and only ferret. I can't
believe how fast his time with me is going.
Dooks!
Shron & Rocky--"I don't see you eating cereal all the time, so why should
I?"
[No comments/flames about salmonella, please; I know the rap and I still
eat runny yolks and rare meat myself.]
[Posted in FML issue 5155]
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