From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-08-10 03:03:12 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: a BFF mortality study
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Excellent question. I don't know.
Does anyone here have access to
J Zoo Wildl Med. 2007 Jun;38(2):169-76
to take a look?
If not, the author can be contacted.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Russell Prater <russellprater@...> wrote:
>
> Sukie, Does that mean that half the kits born died of gastrointestinal
> disease or that half the kits that died died of gastrointestinal
> disease. It says that the number of kits that died was N=11. Maternal
> trauma accounted N=11; 16.9%.
>
> Sukie Crandall wrote:
>
> > The majority of deaths in neonates were due to cannibalism (n = 42;
> > 64.6%) and maternal trauma (n = 11; 16.9%); both of these causes of
> > mortality decreased during the study period. Prior to 2001, juvenile
> > mortality was most often caused by gastrointestinal disease (n = 11;
> > 52.4%), including coccidiosis, salmonellosis, and clostridium
> > infection.
> >
> > END QUOTED ABSTRACT
> >
> > It surprised me that they used to lose over half of of the kits due
> > to gastrointestinal disease.
>
> --
> Russ, not a vet.
>
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