Message Number: SG13834 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Russell Prater
Date: 2005-05-10 02:33:46 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Sick ferret-Stomach ulcers?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <42801D8A.2050605@worldnet.att.net>

Use heavy whipping cream instead of milk replacer or half and half. You
will get more calories. If his stools get loose on the cream, get a
bottle of Lactaid tablets. Crush about 4 and add them to a half pint of
the cream. It removes the lactose from the milk in the cream.

fuzzies4me2003@yahoo.com wrote:

> Thank you, I'll try that! Right now he's getting just A/D mixed with water, I took out
> everything else! I'll try adding a little canned pumpkin and half and half and see how
> he tolerates it-Here's a quick question, though, would the puppy milk replacer be as
> good as the half and half? Then I wouldn't have to worry about the lactose
> intolerance.....