Long before the planned appearance of a pet in the house, it is worth reading a whole range of information on proper nutrition and maintenance . To a greater extent, this concerns not quite typical pets like ferrets. It's not so easy to tell at once what it is possible to eat ferrets, because some consider them to be rodents, and these are the real predators.
Feeding the ferret at home
It should be understood that the usual food for cats will be inappropriate here and from the purchase we refuse right away. In general, all the food that ferrets eat, we will divide into three categories: specialized dry food, the so-called live, as well as a mixture of porridge and minced meat.
What can definitely be eaten by ferrets is food with a very high protein content, with little fiber required. Therefore, the owners who are difficult to accurately calculate the portions and their protein saturation, it is worth giving preference to the ready dry food, which is in pet stores. In the extreme case, you can buy cat food, but it should be premium food. We buy special food for cats, bearing offspring, or young animals.
If you dry food do not seem very useful, go to the vet and find out what ferrets eat at home. He will make you a menu for the pet in the right proportions and indicate the amount. It is also important to consider how much a ferret eats. Metabolism of these animals is very fast, and even three meals a day is not good for them. At least seven times a day, but in small portions. The volume of each intake is usually indicated on the package, in the case of live food the vet will calculate it by itself. Very willing to eat small animals chicken with turkey, can be mixed with vegetables. On average, one serving of your pet is about the third part of a bowl for a cat. Note the fact that approximately the entire diet of your mobile pet will consist of 75% of the meat.
And, at last, the third variant of a food of the ferret in house conditions - porridges from forcemeat. We boil the basics: choose buckwheat, rice or oatmeal. Minced meat is made from so-called muscle meat and by-products. Your pet will not refuse from the fish menu, but here you will have a little bit of a problem. As it turned out, it is possible to such a small animal only a few varieties of fish: mackerel, herring, flounder or trout. You can treat the crumb with liver, cottage cheese and even quail eggs. But what exactly can not be called proper nutrition of the ferret, so it's treats in the form of dairy products, bakery products and of course smoked products.