From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-02-15 17:50:41 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: too many bones for cg?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Joan" <jevanci1@...> wrote:
>
> Part of my :soup: recipe includes whole eggs, shell and all.
> This gives it a nice consistencey as well
> -
>
Remember, though, that there might be a need to be
careful with it if an ulcer is present.
>From 2001 is a post from Dr. Bruce Williams, DVM,
veterinary pathologist ferret expert in which what was
thought to be eggshell debris was found in a ferret
who had a fatal ulcer and the granular material may
have worsened the ulcer:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG5289
In the wild polecats do eat purloined eggs (though
not necessarily much of the shell), but people forget
that in the wild polecats typically die young of unknown
causes so the ones for whom things like eggshell pieces
became too much of a health burden (or almost anything
else that became a burden: infections, food poisoning,
wounds, diseases, parasites, punctures, whatever...)
usually pass away without that cause being known.
(There are now found polecat cadavers being studied but
the ones who are ill and hide away to die are not going to
be found so the found ones will lean toward out-in-the-open
accidental causes of death like being hit by vehicles though
they can be looked at for other problems present if the cadavers
are collected early enough after death, handled properly and
necropsied rapidly with thorough pathology done. to see how
and why to be so fast and careful, and why freezing destroys a
lot of pathology evidence:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG10682
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG3835
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9529
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9853
and there are more in the archives, including ones about things
like common symptoms and signs at or after death in ferrets such
as blood pooled in lungs, purple to black food pads, bleeding from
rectum, etc. that are not definitive and why they are not definitive.)
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