From:
Roger Vaughn
Date: 2002-01-06 09:22:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: interesting question
Sukie reminds me of a good point. Ferrets typically get green, foamy
diarrhea when changing foods. Did you buy a new bag of food at the
same time? While you don't mention changing food brands, it's possible
you bought a bag of the infamous "reformulated" food. That would
definitely cause the symptoms you saw - all at the same time and only
in your kibble-eaters.
Roger
Digger and Bear
> You say that it was an acute problem --sudden, severe but of very
> short duration?
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> When we had ECE here it lasted 3 terrible months.
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> Is it possible that the ones getting the dry food got bad batch of
> food or bad water? Ferrets canbe careful and refuse things,
> but sometimes they don't spot a problem beforehand.
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> --- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "JANICE GONZALES"
> <jg2554@m...> wrote: > I foster ferrets in my home.
> With mine and the fosters I have 25. I did have 27.
> After reading for the past couple of days about ECE and IBS I must
> ask this question. A couple of months ago I took in four new
> fosters and two had what seems to be the same as what every one has
> been describing. Green loose, seedy sometimes foamy orange
> stools. Within 24 to 48 hours everyone of the ferrets came
> down with the same thing. Most had a problem for only a day
> or two and are doing fine now. I lost two who were old and
> had other health problems. I had and still do have 7 ferrets
> on wet food. All are older, one is 10 years old and one has
> Lymphosarcoma and another is blind. All of them have been on
> wet food or duck soup for some time. None of the 7 ferrets
> came down with this. Why didn't these ferrets who were on the
> wet food get sick. The wet food is made with ground Totally
> Ferret, whipping cream, a can of 8 in One chicken, two egg yolks
> and water. The Totally Ferret is the same food given to all
> the ferrets. Is there something in the wet food that kept my
> 7 ferrets from getting this. I will say that all the ferrets
> are doing great now. I did have to force feed two of the sick
> ones for about a week and one of the two had to be medicated with
> Prednisone. He is doing very well now to. >
> > Jan, the ferret Mom of many.
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