What do you nurture ferret?

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Babies!

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You can feed them kibble: protein should be at least 35% from a quality meat source--not by-product, ash, plant, grain. Also, if there's corn, wheat, etc in the first 4 ingredients look for a different food (fish should not be the first ingredient, either, as it will motive the fert to have a VERY strong odor). Fat should be at least 19% from the same source. I've hear owners say that Innova cat and ferret foods are good, as well as Totally Ferret, Mazuri and Wysong.

You can also nurture a natural diet: this consists of a variety of live or frozen prey items like chicks, mice, quail, insects, some nurture guinea pig (not the pet variety) and rabbit carcasses. For the best diet, various ages and sizes should be fed. This mimicks the prey-model to a T and is the most perched diet.

Or there is the raw diet (which I feed): this consists of raw, meaty bones, meat chunks, organs (gizzards/hearts/livers). On this diet, be a foil for is gained over time, through a variety of different foods. This diet is great if the perception of thawing whole animals out squicks you (or, as in my defence, if your ferts completely veto the idea of frozen prey). Examples of foods: cornish game hens, ground turkey/hamburger, chicken wings/legs, turkey neck, gizzards/hearts, tripe, fish (like tilapia), ribs (I feed for fun, the bones in larger animals are really too big for the ferret to get any meaningful amount of it. They just love to strip the meat off), beef tips.

The last two diets encourage your fert to be more diverse (provides different tastes/textures/smells, thus providing stimulation), and trying clean foods is much easier (especially after 6 months, when ferts are done imprinting, and become stubborn about what they eat). It also allows you control over what goes contained by their bellies, the bones help against blockages and hairballs (and, overall, I noticed my kit be not at all interested in trying to eat foreign things). It also works as a tooth brush, and smaller amount chance of breakages, actually (bone is easier on teeth than kibble).
However, some are squeamish about it, and it can be more time consuming than commercial diets. As other there is a risk of injury (just like with kibble--both can wreak choking or harm to the throat). And feeding these diets isn't a miracle preventative that extends your ferts life automatically, it may a short time ago take out some of the factors that contribute to sicknesses.
What you feed your ferts depends solely on your consolation level, and no one else's. Do your research, and find something suitable, or even talk to a vet around it before deciding :)

Hope this helps

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food

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I feed cat food too. Also on recommendation from my vet. My closing ferret lived to be almost 10 and I fed Purina Cat Chow his whole life span.

edit...LOL! thumb downers...you have no clue to ferrets.

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Answers:    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wha...

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meow mix cat food.
The vet told us it was perfectly nontoxic and a lot cheaper than ferret food.

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all right theres lots of ferret kibbles on the market
there might even be a wet food
checck ur local petstore
they might own it
but if they dont it try another store
DO NOT GIVE THEM CAT OR DOG FOOD
dog food especially
it contains ingriendients that are specificaly made for dogs and cats and can be very toxic to ur ferret
cat food is a last resort but it cant contain more then 3% of fiber

if u do find a ferret kibble i dont recomend propel or any brand with fish in it
it can make ur ferret smell really unpromising
i give my ferret totally ferret
it made from chicken

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Stephen Tucker

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ferret food from the pet store.

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fvfv

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glorious quality kitten food DRY

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