Message Number: FHL11373 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Tressie"
Date: 2010-04-19 12:53:00 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: foster again - hand feeding volume intake for a non-eating ferret?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

Hi Meryl,

You may find this resource useful - Ferret Care Course: http://www.washingt=
onferret.org/forms/FerretCareCourse07.pdf

The recommendation for feeding volume is (p. 3):

"usually consider 30 mLs of CC based food per 1 kg ferret at least 3 X a da=
y =96 need to keep from losing weight."

Tressie


--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "merylfaulkner" <merylannefaulkner@...=
> wrote:
>
..
> "Magellan lived on 30-50 cc's 3-4 times daily for 2.5 years".
>
> I assume that this was just an animal that did not want to eat dry food b=
ut had a good appetite. And maybe was a bigger/heavier ferret?
> Meryl
>




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