Ferret behaviour

[weasle 1,119]

I have here a 2 tier ferret hutch the top has a wooden floor,The bottom were i feed is concrete.These are joined by a 4" pipe that runs around the out side of the hutch.

The last couple of days the jills are scrapping the bedding from the top to the bottom and leaving it at the bottom of the pipe.The pipe comes into the hutch about 8" above the ground to stop them dragging the rabbits up the pipe.

They have lived in the hutch for over a year now and have never scrapped the bedding down before,So this behaviour has had me scrathing my head,All i can come up with is there is a late litter of kits that are just turning 4 weeks old,Could the jills be preparing for the kits to come down the pipe building it up so they dont injure there selves as they drop down?

Its the best i can come up with ,interested in what others think.

[Ideation 8,216]

Sounds like a half plausible reason.

 

The only two other i could think of, would be that they are too warm, or that the bedding is dirty or has some kind of biting parasite in/on it.

[The one 8,479]

Sounds like there too warm ,mine are sleeping out in the run the last few nights

[weasle 1,119]

No to parasites got front lined before the kits were born,Might be warm 3 Jill's seem to be minding kits in the one nest.

So my ferrets are not geniuses

[Tug 168]

Might just be they are clearing the dirty bedding out too.

[ferretfatcamp 21]

its for the heat ferrets easily get heatstroke and as they all lie together they can soon overheat steve

[weasle 1,119]

Just been out to find jills and kits in the nest at the bottom of the pipe,So hot wins it.Well done lads

[tye 23]

I also think it is the heat pal,as I have a two tier huch too, my hob is on his own in the top one and has not pulled any of the bedding out of his nest box but I have four jills at the bottom which have pulled all of the bedding out, I am thinking because they were too hot from the heat off each other plus the bedding, were the hob is on his own so just has the heat from the bedding, if this makes sense?