Crickets - Page 2

Norm66 · 02-03-12, 10:54 AM

We had really good luck with Bob's chicken gravy which is mainly slightly cooked chicken. It was my opinion (not based in fact mind you) that the worst contributor to the smell was the fish component in the kibble. This was before the really good ferret kibbles were available and a lot of people still fed kitten food.

Kat, I used to get all my stuff at ferret.com. I still have one of their stickers on my guitar case.

Gungirl · 02-03-12, 11:06 AM

Any fish product will make ferrets smell horrid! lol Ferret.com is the best site I have found.

KORBIN5895 · 02-03-12, 11:09 AM

I am currently feeding chicken and lamb jerky. I will be buying actual ferret food today but the stuff he is normally on still makes him stink.

Norm66 · 02-03-12, 11:14 AM

Korbin, have you ever given him a mouse? A lot of times if they're not started early they won't recognize it as food but it is definitely good for them. And we all have F/T rodents laying around after all.

Actually the very first thing that was ever in our new refrigerator when we moved into our house was 4 cases of Bud Light and 100 frozen mice. Had to pay the movers and be ready for the ferrets. LOL

Gungirl · 02-03-12, 11:18 AM

Be very careful and do your research before switching any ferret onto a raw diet. If they are not slowly introduced into it they can get very ill. The first sign is very runny poop. I have seen ferrets die from dehydration after being switched onto a raw diet with out doing it the right way. I do not feed a raw diet due to the fact that I adopted my ferrets older and I am not willing to risk the health issues associated with making the switch. Ferret foods are made as a well balanced diet kind of like Crested gecko food is done for them now.

KORBIN5895 · 02-03-12, 11:42 AM

I tried a couple of pinkies when we found him last month but he wasn't interested.

Norm66 · 02-03-12, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

I tried a couple of pinkies when we found him last month but he wasn't interested.

Yea, once they're a year old they often won't recognize new foods. The more I think about it I'm pretty sure it was just the ones we had as pups that would eat mice.

And of course, Kat is right about switching diet carefully. We never had much problem getting them to eat the chicken gravy but we always mixed kibble in with it in decreasing quantities to acclimate new ones. They had kibble 24/7 available but somehow they always had room when we brought out the gravy.

DragonsEye · 02-03-12, 11:53 AM

NO WATER bowl or any such unless you have a sponge in it like Wayne suggested. (As a long term thing that would not be a great idea but short term would be fine.) Crickets are INCREDIBLY stupid creatures and will drown themselves by the truckload. Instead, get some leaves of romaine, rinse them off well (to remove any pesticides that may be present) and put the still wet leaves in the tub. The crickets will eat the leaves and "lap up" the water drops on the leaves. You can also use some slices of raw potato. If you have a cat or dog, you can put some pebbles of cat/dog food in there. The crickets will eat it. If these are the brown house crickets, do NOT keep them too cool ... IME this species has very little cold tolerance.

Chirp? Hell yeah!