to the FML member and Shannon Ito that wrote: >>Could someone please send me the reciepe for 'duck soup' and 'elixer' and >>give what they are used for??? >I'd like to know, too. Sounds tasty! Duck soup is liquid food served to sick ferrets. Here is 2 recipes posted earlier this winter by Dick Bossart and Meg Carpenter. Recipe from Dick Bossart: At the shelter here, we make up a Duck Soup made from pulverized, high-quality, dry kitten food (about 1/2 cup); Sustical ((about 1/8 cup) (human food supplement found in grocery stores and drug stores - we use strawberry flavored- , usually in 8 oz six packs); Nutrical or Nutristat (about an 2 inches); a little Ferretone or Linetone (one to two pumps); and water or Pedilite. You can also add chicken (baby food). If the ferret will eat it on its own, add enough water to make a thick paste. If it won't, make the mixture watery. It helps to warm it in the microwave but stir it with your fingers before serving to make sure that there are no hot spots. Recipe from Meg Carpenter: Duck soup for recovering ferrets. One can of sustecal or ensure. Add Totally Ferret or other high protein feed. Add 1/2 or more cup of pedialyte. Add teaspoon of Special Care by Four D Paws (available from Omaha Vaccine Company 1-800-367-4444) and anything else you want to get into your ferret. Tip from a breeder friend. Use electric coffee grinder to powder dry food. This makes it easy when you mix the above in a blender. Feed to ferret with infant medicine dropper. BTW,. all of my ferrets get some duck soup from time to time - they love it and it makes it a familiar treat when they are sick. Lorraine Tremblay & her 6 healthy ferrets [Posted in FML issue 1567]