When ferrets get sick, they may not want to do all the work of eating their kibble or tearing up meat. Older ferrets can have bad teeth and the kibble can hurt too much to eat. So, feed them duck soup.
What is duck soup?
First of all, duck soup doesn’t usually have duck in it. As the story goes, a ferret named Lucky Ducky was sick and his humans fed him “soup” while he recovered. Since then, any supplementary musky food has been called duck soup.
When should you feed your ferret duck soup?
It’s okay to give your ferret most types of duck soup as a treat. It’s even a good idea to give him a little when he’s healthy, so he gets used to it and doesn’t mind when he really needs it.
Also, you should feed your furry with this concoction when he is sick and has stopped eating or if he is old and does not eat enough.
Where do you get the duck soup?
You can buy something at the pet store called duck soup. I’ve never tried. that. Most of the people I know make their own soup for their furry ones. Most people seem to have their own recipes. Here are some of them.
chicken food for babies
Gerber chicken baby food is easy to digest and a decent food for a furry friend. Most ferrets will lick it off without much persuasion. Chicken baby food has the advantage that it comes in small jars, so it won’t spoil much at once. However, once you open the jar, you need to refrigerate it.
The variety of croquettes
Put your ferret’s kibble in a coffee grinder (or blender) and grind it into a fine powder. Place your powdered kibble in a tightly closed container. When it’s time to feed your weasel, put some of the kibble in a bowl and add enough water to hydrate it. You can even microwave it for a few seconds if you want. The advantages of this type of duck soup are that you don’t change your ferret’s food and you can prepare as much as you need without wasting it. I use this form of duck soup when traveling with a sick ferret because it’s nice and portable.
the sweet kind
If your ferret has trouble eating, this might be the way to go. You get 1 jar of chicken porridge and 1 container of Ensure. Put it in a tightly closed container and shake the mixture. This mixture is sweet and almost any ferret will love to eat it. The downsides to this soup are that the mix has a good amount of sugar from the Guarantee, and the mix won’t last more than a couple of days.
A more traditional soup
Take a chicken. Put it in a giant pot with water. Boil for a long time. Eventually, the skin and meat will fall off the bones. Put out the fire. Remove the bones from the mixture. Get a hand mixer and blend the mixture. (You can put this in a blender, but every time I try, I end up with scalding soup on my face. It hurts. Stick blenders are good.) Once the mixture is blended, pour it over ice. -cube trays and freeze. When you need to feed your furry one, take out a bucket and put it in the microwave. Mix it up and feed your ferret.
Other things you might consider adding to the soup before freezing it are olive oil or a little ground up kibble.
Like I said before, there are tons of recipes available for duck soup. If one doesn’t work, try another.
