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Date: | Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:20:13 EET |
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Help me, my friends,
Can anyone recommend a good palatable protein source that I am likely to be
able to find in Turkey? (the country, not the fowl!)
I have long run out of Iams kitten food that I brought with me to Turkey,
and the stuff my brother brought over (some attempt at commercial ferret
pellets) was SO bad no ferret would eat it.
I can get Iams cat food and various other cheaper cat foods, but 30-31% is
the max protein available, and ferret experts recommend around 40%, right?
There is NO kitten food for sale in any pet shop I've visited in Istanbul.
I can't remember the details I heard about feeding eggs to ferrets --
something about a substance in the RAW yolk or white that is toxic to
ferrets. Rikki will eat small amounts of both yolk and white, cooked, if I
hand feed him. Is this cool? Will it make up the deficit?
So is egg protein a good supplement for an otherwise fairly-low protein
diet? Any other ideas? Getting in the extra fat is easier (I assume a dot
of butter, Ferretone, vegetable oil, etc. daily will do that?).
Rikki seems just fine--but in reading lately about the long-term effects of
a low-grade diet, I sure don't want my baby to suffer any risk!
Cheers,
Sue Kocher
Koc University email: [log in to unmask]
[Posted in FML issue 1515]
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