feeding dry cat food your opinions

[mushroom 12,883]

whatever causes the problem regardless that is some top notch info on what needs to be done in the event of calcium deficiancy :clapper:

[Funfuret 1]

ers sum info on chicks Actinomycosis in Ferrets

 

According to James McKay in his book “Complete Guide to Ferretsâ€, actinomycosis in ferrets is a hard swelling of the neck, probably caused by abrasions to its esophagus, usually by feeding the ferret too many day-old chicks in the diet.

Some of the symptoms include

 

Listlessness

Anorexia

Fever

 

It is usually cured by injections of cephalosporin and the ferret will probably have to be fed a liquid diet until fully recovered.

 

Good info on treating calcium deficiency but the cause of actinomycosis in ferrets seems to be a matter of opinion apparently because the vet James G. Fox says in his book that 'Feeding ferrets on carcasses with bones may increase the likelihood that actinomycosis, if present in oral flora, could infect animals through cuts and abrasions created by the sharp, jagged end of bones.'

 

Mind you, that won't stop me giving mine raw bones because they do need the calcium IMO plus the bones help keep their teeth clean. And anyway, according to Fox, 'the disease has rarely been reported in ferrets'.