From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-05-01 00:44:07 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: shunned newborn--help!
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=11&cat=1296&articleid=539
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If hand feeding is the kits' only source of nutrition, use kitten or puppy milk replacers.
They need frequent feeding (at 2- or 3-hour intervals, 24 hours a day) when 2 to 3 weeks
old, and after that can get by on 4 meals a day, with gradually increasing quantities of
both moist and dry solid food also provided.
For monkeys we used tiny rags soaked in the milk replacer. They could suck on those,
and we had to wet a finger with saliva and massage the genetalia many times each day and
night so the infant could go to the bathroom. (Ferrets need that, too, as i recall.)
http://www.jefferspet.com/ssc/products.asp?CID=0&area=ferret&dept_id=205
I've never seen this one before but a quick skim does not make it look useful:
http://www.weaselwords.com/page/ferret_art033.php
This mihgt have info but I can't see it:
http://www.ferret.org/newsletter/2004/2004vol14no1_ToBreedOrNot.pdf
This also may have info:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ferreter/health14.htm
and I recall someone once saying that this also had useful info for ferret kits
though it is written for raccoons, but can not recall who mentioned it:
http://www.2ndchance.info/raisingraccoons.htm
Sukie (not a vet)
Current FHL address:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
>
> X from the X has newborns (since last night) and the mother is
> shunning one of them. Left him in the nesting box when she moved the others, then got
> POed when X put the little guy to the nipple. She does have another female ready to pop
> and I suggested seeing if she'd nurse. If this doesn't work, what formula is best? Please,
if
> you haver any ideas, contact her immediately and directly! Her email is
> X I can't find a phone number.
>
> Clover
>
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