Duck Soup Recipes Here you will fine a few Duck Soup Recipes for your ferrets. Some for sick ferrets, some just for feeding well ferrets everyday. Feeding Duck Soup is a good preventive to keep your ferrets healthy. If you have a recipe you would like to add, email Ferretlady with it or post it on the message board, and I will add it . Thanks, Everyone. ************************************************************* Recipe from Ferret-3 Ingredients 1 can Sustacal (8 oz., or about 230 ml; it comes in a larger size too) 1 can of water (8 oz., or about 230 ml) 2 scoops puppy or kitten weaning formula--OPTIONAL 4 oz.(110 grams) dry kitten or ferret food, soaked in enough water to cover and soften it completely (I also grind it first) [ Sustcal is for humans look for it by baby formulas or in the phamacy section of your super market. you can also use Ensure, Discover 2.0 or Just Born (puppy/kitten milk replacer).] sometimes I add ferretone and or nutracal or ferretvite also and if you have insulanomic ferrets i'm sure you can substitute diabetic ensure or sustacal Procedure Mix thoroughly. We always nuke it for them to the temperature of baby formula. We try to serve about 4 fluid ounces at a time twice a day for maintainence; if your little guys eat to much and you feel the are getting fat, you can increase the amount of water. We have tried increasing the amount of dry food, but if it gets to thick some of them won't eat it. this formula freezes well -- the Sustacal must be used within 48 hours if only left in the fridge. This formula was borrowed from F.A.C.T newsletter (paw prints) (this is more for sick ferret some people also add chicken baby food gerbers 2nd stage works best.) Kevin ********************************** Recipe from BoopDiane Here's a recipe I use. I have 5 ferrets with insulinoma. All six of my ferrets love my soup. High protein quality ferret kibble & kitten kibble 3 jars - Stage 2 Chicken & Gravy Baby Food 3 jars - Stage 2 Turkey & Gravy Baby Food 1 jar - Stage 2 Turkey Rice Baby Food LOW SODIUM Swanson Beef Broth Ferretone Water Boil water for 10 minutes. In LARGE bowl....Soak kibble in boiled water & broth until very soft. Add ALL jars of baby food Add Ferretone Mix & stir well until well-blended Place small amounts in blender and blend on high/liquify until smooth & creamy. Add some water if needed to make blending easier. Place in ice cube tray. Repeat until entire mixture has been blended and put into ice cube trays. Freeze. After frozen, remove frozen cubes of soup and place in freezer bags and keep frozen. Remove cubes as needed. Add small amount of water and microwave until warm. Serve. Sprikle small amount of ferretone on top if desired. You can add Pedialyte to the soup for ill ferrets as needed. This recipe makes about 155 cubes of soup and lasts about 3 1/2 weeks for my ferrets. BoopDiane & The Boops **************************** Recipe from Rose Red This is my version of Duck Soup. I call it Duck Soup plain and Simple, or the Basic Duck Soup Ingredients: 2 cans of AD Science Diet Canine / Feline 2 jars Gerbers stage 2 Chicken or Turkey in gravy 1 cup kibble soaked until softened 2 jars (baby food jars) bottled water Put the AD, Baby food, and kibble together in the blender, add one jar of water then blend. Add second jar of water gradually untill you get the consistency (thickness-thiness) that you want. For those who don't have insulnomic Ferret's you can add a one inch worm of nutrical and some sustacal (SP)? You can also add ferrettone / linatone, or chicken stock. Also for Ferret's with tummy troubles like my Joey, I add ferretzyme (a digestable enzyme) and it helps him digest his food. Ferretzyme also has probiotics in it so it helps with ulcers. Red Rose (AKA) Taz Woman ************************************ Ducky Soup by Love A Ferret (Robin) Chicken Puree : 1 cut up chicken 1 container chicken liver 1 whole chicken , enough water to cover chicken boil about 1 hour, let cool to handle , take off all the fat from chicken use half or all of the chicken , hubby and I use the rest but times I use the whole chicken :-) and put it all back into the pot add the chicken liver and cook till liver is done , cool, put into a blender or food processor and puree up then add 2 cup of puree to 4 or more freezer containers cool , then put into freezer until needed . This is my base to the soup I get 6 - 2 cup freezer containers out of it The Soup : 1 cup kibble (I use Tf, Zupreem, MNK) 1 container chicken puree (thawed from freezer) 1 can EVD or Hills A/D (both from vet ) or Iams Kitten purple can 2 boiled eggs (chopped) 2 jars Gerber baby food #2 turkey or chicken 1 Tablespoons Ferretone 1 Tablespoons olive oil 1/3 cup nupro(the ferret store ) or Uncle Jims gravy (Petco) water if too thick put kibble into food processor or blender, turn into a powder, add chicken puree, blend , turn off and stir if needed to make sure all is mixed up with puree , add rest of the ingredients, and blend up and then put into freezer ice trays I use 4 ice trays ,when frozen then put into freezer bags , I use 2 cubes cut in half every morning as a treat for the kids and also use for any one on meds .they love it and I like making it. ***************************** |