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Cornish Game Hens

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#1 ·
I am starting Missy Mae tomorrow on her raw. I am nervous since she is a gulper but got wings and drumsticks and will watch closely, but not so close that she gulps it in fear of it being taken away from her.

Anyway I feed Cornish Game Hens (CGH) fairly often to the ferrets. I like to feed those because they are what all 5 would eat in one meal and I can find them consistently. I don't cut it up, just put it in their cage and let them tear it apart. Would they be a good choice for Missy Mae (12 lbs) to eat. Since they are a type of chicken I could feed them now, right? I usually get them at about $1- $2 per CGH and I want to say they weigh (haven't looked at the weight in awhile) one pound each. Missy Mae should be eating "about" one pound a week so it would be really easy to cut it up for her for the week.
 
#9 ·
How would you do this? Let her eat until she is done, give her a time limit? Just eyeball it and when she has eaten a certian amount take it away?
 
#16 · (Edited)
The $1 is not often, only when they are on sale and when they go on sale I clean them out lol. When I went shopping the other night they were $ 2.45 I think.

Typically they are about $2.25 or so.
 
#8 ·
I, for the most part, only shop at Winco. The prices are the cheapest around, except for lamb which I get at Costco. I have not bought CGH's for a couple of weeks and I did notice last night when I was stocking up that meat prices are a lot higher now than they were last time I went shopping. I have never spent more than $2.50 for a CGH. The Winco that I shop at has everything in one place. Chicken livers, hearts, gizzards, cow tongue, heart, kidney, and some other stuff. Some of it I do not know what it is. I'll have to take my camera next time and we can play "what part of the animal is this?" lol

Last night Winco had turkeys on sale for .28 a pound (when you spent more than $50) and .48 a pound if you did not. "Enhanced meat" is the stuff that is package with added seasonings or in the flavored water, right? If my understanding of enhanced meat is correct then the turkeys were not enhanced.

I have not taken any pictures of raw feeding in years but I will tomorrow. It is hard to get pictures of the ferrets because they are fed in their cage, otherwise they will try and stash it somewhere and with 5 of them you never know where it will end up!
 
#11 ·
For those that live in WA, do you feed salmon and if you do how do you feed it? Do you freeze it for a certian amount of time? Do you not feed it raw? Do you get canned stuff? We go fishing a lot but we always cook it for us. I am worried about containments and disease.
 
#15 ·
Thank to all for the info. I am going to have to have my daughter feed the fish outside. When I was pregnant with my oldest I got really sick (puking for days) from eating tuna. Now I cannot even be in the house when any type of fish is being cooked or I'm in the bathroom praying to the procelin god!
 
#21 · (Edited)
What is best, is when you are farther into the diet if you can feed her all grass fed meats.. This is by far the best way for a dog to get their omega's. Venison, beef, llama, lamb, emu, bison, goat etc.

I don't supplement salmon oil nearly as much as I feed a lot of grass fed meats, but the dogs do get canned salmon, mackerel and sardines about once a week.