From:
shelterwoman@yahoo.com
Date: 2002-09-06 03:02:00 UTC
Subject: Re; megaesophagus+propulsid
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <14258101.1031281320317.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Hello Carla,
You are absolutely right about the ferrets with megaesophgus 'blowing up their necks' and it remains hard for some time! Actually many years ago I had a young breeding ferret that 'ate her babies' at birth and for several days her neck was blown up and hard, as if all the carnage was stuck there, as it started to be digested it slowly moved down into the stomach and her neck resumed shape.
I have always assumed from this experience that those ferrets with megaesophagus, more than likely have the food stored in the eosophagus, within the neck, until the food is slowly digested and then goes down into the stomach, a kind of holding place it seems and then if not, that is when it is regurgitated, my theory, for what it is worth!---Angela.