Message Number: SG8427 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:14:02 +0100 (BST)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] blood glucose origins if no starch in diet
Message-ID: <6546082.1080774842069.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> Ferrets can live an entire lifetime on a diet of muscle meat, organs (devoid
> of any GI content) and bone. They actually thrive on such a diet and can
> breed for generations and raise kits on the same diet without any problems.
> So they certainly have the ability to function without any added carbs.
That is good to know.
It will be interesting when more is known over time to see what may be optimal, how much what may be optimal varies among individuals and conditions, what levels may be indistinguishable from each other in terms of health, disease types, longevity, and so on. That's one of the fascinating (and sometimes frustrating) things about ferrets: that they provide such a constant opportunity for learning. Easy answers are so incredibly rare with them at this point.
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