From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-05-02 17:12:36 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Stools too loose since last chicken gravy batch
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4051517.1115053956166.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> Thanks, Russell. How can I tell if he has an allergy to the chicken?
After a week or two of no chicken his stools will firm up. (There may be some rapid improvement but long standing inflammation can take a while to go down.)
We had one who was allergic to all poultry, and there was another list member's ferret who had a very specially designed diet. Most ferrets who are allergic to poultry do fine on the specialty food, Feline z/d which vets carry and which has the prteins so broken down that reactions are not set off. That particular ferret with the special det, though, was even more sensitive so it turns out that they worked out a way to use the canine z/d which is even less likely to cause problems, but since dog food is not right for ferrets there had to be supplementations and also the addition of the one baby food that particular ferret would tolerate: ham.
IBD diets are talked about quite a lot in the FHL Archives:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
Read up on IBD and do be sure to have your vet check to make sure that the problem is not something else.