Message Number: SG17813 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: julie_fossa@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:05:35 +0100 (BST)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: another coccidia question
Regina, it's my understanding that coccidia is very easily passed from ferret to ferret. In Toronto, Dr. Bruce Williams mentioned that it can be passed in the cleaning solutions and the cloths used to clean cages. That is why it's advisable to use bleach to disinfect when cleaning cages and to change water and cleaning rags frequently.
Ferrets can have the organism in their systems and not show symptoms until sufficiently stressed, either healthwise or other.
It's not uncommon for a ferret to have an odd stool. If you are seeing even slight dehydration or unseasonal weight loss, and the bad stool, you might want to pursue checking it out.
Julie
Author wrote:
> As the owner of yet another ferret with occasional yellow
> puddles of stinky stool, I am also wondering what's going on
> with my ferret. My question about coccidia is, how
> contaigious is it? But the other ferret, Seti, has never
> shown that kind of stool, or even runny stool at all, stinky
> or otherwise. If Ronan has
> coccidia, is it at all possible that Seti wouldn't come down
> with it as well? And it is typical for this sort of stool
> episode to last only 24 hours or so, with the stool then
> gradually returning to normal?
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