From:
sprite@ksu.edu
Date: 2008-03-22 20:43:24 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] insulinoma
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I believe that genetics plays a very big part in insulinoma. My first
ferret passed it on to 6 of his 7 offspring. I didn't know he had
insulinoma till he was 4 years old, 3 years after he mated with Prissy.
I'm not saying other things don't fit into the equation just that from
my experience it appeared to be genetic.
Ferrets in Australia and other countries may be from other lines, or
cleaner lines of ferrets than we have in the US. If one indicator is
present, and that line is in-bred or cross-bred, what are the chances
that eventually all lines will be contaminated? Could that be what has
happened in the US?
Are Marshalls, Path Valley, Triple F, and other farms originated from
the same ferret lines in the US?
There is more to this than just diet, in my humble opinion.
That doesn't mean we can't care for our ferrets with the knowledge we
have but I'd personally not take it to extremes.
Pre-packaged high quality foods have the majority of needed nutrients.
In raw feeding the nutrients has to be calculated in. It isn't just
feed your ferret a mouse and be done with it.
Time, money, knowledge, learning, researching, all figure into feeding.
If you want to feed more natural DO THE RESEARCH FIRST and MONITOR to
make sure your ferret does well on what you decide for them.
Squeal at me if you need to, but I give my ferrets a wide variety of
packaged foods, some human, some cat, some ferret, some dog, and my
record of insulinoma isn't any higher than the average as far as I can
tell, in fact it may be lower for my group size.
This is my personal thoughts, yours may be different and I respect that.
tle
www.ferretfamilyservices.org
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