The diet of a healthy polecat has to consist of food of animal origin – fowl, beef, a turkey, horse-flesh and sea fish. The farshekash can prepare on the basis of these products, adding to it various grain. Water always has to be present "at a table" a polecat.
The diet of the healthy polecat who is contained in house conditions has to be as close as possible to a diet of the wild animal living in the nature. It is known that the polecat – a predator also eats rats, mice, moles and rabbits. Sometimes catches frogs, fish and birds.
Features of digestive organs Polecats have a stomach, small on volume, a short digestive tract, badly developed thick department of intestines and a blind gut – a rudiment. Food in a stomach of an animal is digested only in 5-7 hours after receipt, besides in saliva of polecats there is no enzyme of amylase which participates in process of splitting of starch and sugar. For this reason the diet of a healthy polecat has to consist from well and quickly acquired food capable to provide an animal organism with the maximum quantity of nutrients.
As well as with what to feed The most physiologically suitable food are live little mice, infant rats and daily chickens. It is possible to give the destroyed cubs of these animals who right after it were immediately frozen. If to feed a pet with such food of an opportunity and desire is not present, it is replaced with an offal – a liver, heart, the chicken heads, chicken, beef, a turkey, horse-flesh and sea fish without bones – a trout, a cod, a mackerel and a flounder. On the basis of an offal also the so-called farshekasha is preparing. For this purpose meat or fish broth cooks and mix of different grain – rice, oat-flakes, millet, buckwheat and to that similar is added there. Depending on a basis of broth, meat of a bird, beef or fish is added. Not to forget to add to a farshekasha and vitamin and mineral additive: today it is possible to find the vitamins developed especially for polecats in specialized shops. It is necessary that the diet of a healthy polecat included many fats and a protein and did not include cellulose. Cellulose interferes absorptions of nutrients in intestines therefore fruit and vegetables in a diet of an animal should not be. The polecat cannot give protein of egg, there can be an allergy, and here a yolk occasionally it is possible to indulge. Small bird's eggs can be given in the raw. From dairy products it is authorized to treat an animal with a small amount of cottage cheese and a small piece of cheese. It is impossible to give to a polecat sweet, milk and lactic products, smoked products, sausages, pork, chocolate, apples, carrots, nuts, plums, raisin, bananas, oat flakes and bran. As for water, the polecat drinks it much and often therefore near his feeding trough always there has to be a bowl with fresh, clean, it is desirable the filtered or spring water.