From:
ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2007-05-02 01:16:09 UTC
Subject: Shunned newborn Re: [ferrethealth] Digest Number 766
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
In a message dated 05/01/07 8:04:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com writes:
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.
**In my experience with breeding dogs and ferrets (and cats when I was
younger) - a mother animal that is mothering the majority of a litter but ignoring
one of the babies is aware of something wrong with that baby. When I have done
necropsies on these babies, there is almost always something wrong
internally. If a mom just doesn't know what they are doing due to inexperience, they
will be ignoring all of the babies equally - that is a very different thing from
one being ignored and the rest cared for.
Sad, often heartbreaking, but that's part of breeding.**
Dr. Ruth
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