Lax is short for laxatone it is only one of many many different brands of hairball solutions, you can even use vasaline, I know many ferret & cat owners that do & lots of ferrets also like it! You can add ferretone to the vaseline to give it an extra taste. this will not illiminate blockages & hairballs just helps to prevent them, they can still get them though.

I personally feed my kids raw meat right on the bones (anything but pork & that is only because of the intestineal parrasites & other diseaeses & such).

duck soup can be made in many different ways here is one site w/ recipes:
http://ferretville.net/health/soup.html
once i get a good grinder I will be using a very similar recipe to the first one listed on that page


These are the main ingredients I ussually use, sometimes I may leave out one or 2 things:
1 can a/d (science diet from vets)
1 jar gerber chicken baby food (stage 2)
1-1.5 cup left over kibble crumbs (ferret food)
approx. 1-1.5 cups water or homemade chicken broth (canned is too high in sodium, even the low sodium)
1-1.5 cups cooked chicken (dark meat is better for them)

Cook the chicken, save the broth, tear into small chunks, set aside
grind kibble in blender until tiny chunks/powder like substance
slowly add all ingredients into the blender, add water/broth last so you can determine the thickness of the soup you want. If you want to make it more concentrated leave it thick. then pour into ice cube trays & freeze. To feed thaw one cube per ferret, melt in microwave or just leave in fridge overnight, if it is too thick just add a little water right before serving.

You can add pedialyte instead of water if your fuzzie is sick/dehydrated.
You can also adda touch of heavy whipping cream after you thaw the cube to put a little weight on a skinny ferret.

it may take a ferret a little while to take to it but dont give up, be persistant, it is important you get your ferret on this in case it should ever becme ill.



as far as ferret food goes i feed a mixture of
zupreem
totally ferret
sheperd & green (sometimes)
felidae cat food
walmarts maximum nutrition kitten food

i'm also going ot start to feed the ferret stores supirior choice