| 1. Unflavored pedialyte 2. Chicken babyfood 3. Feeding syringe 4. Ferretone 5. boneless skinless chicken breast tenderloins 6. 100% canned pure pumpkin (helps to stop severe diarehha) 7. Marshall Probiotic supplement 8. Anti-nausea medication from vet (only if necessary) 9. PATIENCE!!!! 10. 8-in-1 vitasol (ferret multivitamen) I would reccomend starting out by removing kibble from the cage for 4 hours. Then, put a bowl of boneless skinless chicken breast tenderloins into the cage. The tenderloins should be cut up into tiny pieces, covered in ferretone, and dusted with crushed kibble. Your ferrets will probably ignore the meat, and thats okay. After 24 hours of them not eating (they most likely wont eat the meat at first), replace the meat with fresh meat, and take 2.5 ml of babyfood and feed each ferret via feeding syringe. This will help them from getting sick from not eating, and it will also encourage them to get hungry again. This hunger should motivate them to try their new food. Be patient. When 48 hours rolls around, if they STILL have not eaten the chicken chunks, replace the chunks again, and this time mix some babyfood in with the chunks, ferretone, and crushed kibble. This will entice them to lick and hopefully nibble at the chunks. They will get hungry enough to try the chunks. My guys started eating their chunks in 2 days. Its really rough, but use tough love. Dont give in to their sad little pouty faces. Stick to your guns and be patient. Hunger will force them to try the new food. And once they try the new food, 99% of the time they will just love it! Once they've been eating the chunks for several days, then you can add a chicken wing with gashes cut into the wing. They will probably start to eat it from the wing tip down. Hope this helps you out. Good luck with the switch!
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