From:
ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2010-03-13 01:31:00 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Amputated foot
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
"I'd also be interested in knowing what is done to treat the kit? Is it removed from the jill and litter? Hand reared?
Does it ever result in a fatality? For example, is something more vital ever chewed off?
Does the jill appear distressed by her kit's injury, reject it or the opposite engage in more nurturing behaviour toward it"
In most cases that I am aware of the kit is left with the jill, as long as it was the overcleaning type of injury and not active mutilation (those kits must be taken from the jill and fostered). Treating the kit - I actually didn't treat with anything. Mom kept the stump clean and no evidence of infection showed up, although antibiotics would have been indicated if there was any concern about a possible infection. The kit did not seem painful at all, surprisingly, and I did not want to give anything that could have decreased activity and suckling, although if the kit had seemed painful, I'd have come up with something. There was minimal bleeding, even.
This seems to be true of the majority of these cases, from talking with other breeders.
Yes, ferret moms do sometimes kill their babies.
And as near as I could tell, the mom pretty much treated the kits alike, giving neither more or less attention to the one missing his foot.
Dr. Ruth
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