From:
"Chris Lloyd"
Date: 2008-11-08 12:22:28 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Different Food Question
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
>who here REALLY knows what they are talking about who has a SERIOUS degree like a master's and above in animal sciences. or better yet how many have had ferrets live to be ten yrs or older <
Between 1988 and 2001 the average age upon death was over 10 years in 9 ferrets, the oldest was just short of 14 and the youngest 8. Up to 20001 I was feeding mainly shop bought meat fed raw apart from my weekly cooked chicken carcase, the main part of their diet was beef lites which is about 50% fat the rest being heart, liver and kidneys with eggs and milk. Towards the end of that period I was feeding mainly whole carcase. If I fed them just beef or pork fat it seemed to come out virtually unchanged so I do not think they digested fat very well. Ferrets are meant to seasonally carry a lot of body fat so I do not think they suffer from the problems that fat does to out heath. Chris.
Mr Chris Lloyd.
07092 027588.
Wessex Ferret Club.
www.wessexferretclub.co.uk
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