What Is The Best Diet To Feed Your Ferret?

When it comes to feeding food to ferrets, one of the most preferred food products readily available is Kaytee ferret food. Ferrets are cute, playful, and spunky pets. However, they require a bit of extra care in their feeding requirements as they are strict carnivores and it wouldn’t be possible for them to manage more fibre in their diet. Let us now discuss certain things that need to be taken care of while feeding ferrets.

What do Ferrets eat?

Ferrets are true carnivore animals, in the wild, they prey upon and eat the animals fully like raw meat, tissues, raw bones, kidneys, and even other parts of the animal's body. From that, they get all the required nutrients that are important to maintain their overall health in check. Ferrets require a diet that should have a rich source of proteins and fats in it and it should contain low carbohydrates and fibres.  

Food includes pigeons, rabbits, chickens, turkey necks, lamb, and raw animal bones should be included in the ferrets' diet as it is very healthy for their health. Some basic requirements of food should be taken care of in a ferret’s diet:

• Food should be high in proteins (Around 30 to 40%)
• One needs to ensure that proteins should be highly digestible and of high quality.
• Food must contain very low carbohydrates and fiber (Not more than 3%).
• It should contain a high amount of fats in it (Around 20 to 30%).

Ferrets have a short intestinal tract but have a high metabolism, it is required to feed them in small proportions. It is found that most ferrets eat 6 to 10 small meals in a period every three to four hours in a day. Sometimes ferret parents worry about keeping an available supply of food all the time to ferrets as they might get obese because of the continued supply of food. However, there is no need to worry as ferrets only eat food once they feel hungry and until they get full. They won’t over-diet themselves just because food is available there. 

What Ferrets shouldn’t eat?

There are some foods that one should always avoid feeding your ferret including chocolate, fish, beans, cow's milk, corn, bananas, onions, berries, apples, onions, oranges, kiwi, etc. Also, every pet parent needs to make sure to provide a continuous supply of filtered fresh water all the time to the pets. 

Every pet parent wishes to get the best quality food for their ferrets to maintain their overall health in check. To fulfill that requirement, Kwik Pets is here with a variety of best-quality Kaytee ferret food with different flavors that you require to maintain the overall health of your pets like Kaytee fiesta ferret food, Kaytee fortified ferret food, etc. Other than this, some parents wish to get premium food for their pets that are made with limited ingredients for which Kaytee premium ferret food with chicken is also a great option to go for. However, if you are searching for wet or canned food for ferrets, you can also shop for Kaytee canned ferret food which is also a rich source of protein.

Kaytee Fiesta Ferret Food

Kaytee Fiesta Ferret food is a nutritionally formulated gourmet diet that comes in varieties of sizes, textures, and shapes. This is a great source to provide fun, high enrichment, and huge nutrition to cute furry pets. This food is prepared with completely natural ingredients that contain no artificial preservatives or colors and also contains added minerals and vitamins. To support the health of small furry animals, this food contains high-quality probiotics and prebiotics.  

Some key benefits of Kaytee Fortified Ferret food:

Below are some mentioned key benefits of feeding ferrets with this food:

• This food is made with special biting textures that help maintain the dental health of pets.
• This food is rich in natural antioxidants and is highly helpful in building a strong immune system. 
• It is naturally preserved to provide optimum freshness to pets.
• It contains probiotics and prebiotics that help in maintaining strong digestive health.
• It contains Omega-3 acids that support a healthy brain, heart, eye function, etc.

Ferrets are inquisitive animals and thus as per their instincts, they like to chew things. Thus, one needs to take proper care of things provided around them. There are varieties of food products available at Kwik Pets that help you in maintaining the overall health of your ferret in check along with all the products including feeding bowls, feeders, and waterers for pets that are spillproof as pets like to splash things and water around them.