Crapping In Sleeping Box

[Arry 23,219]

Get her to the vet mate, maybe if she was ill could be why she was crapping in her nest box. Good luck with her.

 

Milk is not much good for them mate try an egg.

 

Cheers Arry

Edited January 6, 2017 by Arry

[Micheala Robinson 400]

After defreezing their water bottle this morning only one ferret came out the other not moving alive but limp just given her some warm milk and put her back to bed be gutted if she goes was showing signs of a good worker,life lesson for my kids if she goes as they have named them

Hope she makes a miraculous recovery for yours and the kids sake. ???

[Chaff 3,636]

Just had a mate round he didn't think she was on deaths door as drinking well and eating dry food 2 days ago I gave them a couple of chicken legs (raw) that's the only thing different they have eaten and the other ones fine,hopefully she will start to pick up I am checking on her every hour or so.

[norseman 424]

use one of them plunger/syringes to get water into her if she's not drinking. make sure she's drinking at the least. hope she'll be ok. I had one recover recently and i still dont know what happened to her

[Chaff 3,636]

Yeah she drinking have had her drinking from saucer OK, wife has just took both to vets its now going to cost but having to start again will be a long time before I can get another as from a 30+ year working strain and want to keep with them. Also the Chance's of someone gifting me a good working ferret this time of year are slim.

Time will tell I guess

[patterdale 675]

I totally agree with what has already been said,sleeping area to big and also is their food dish away from bedding area?What I mean is if they can just poke their head out of sleeping area and reach their food they won't need to enter rest of cage and get lazy and poo in bedding?

Could the ferret be ill due to cold weather or draughty cage or is it sleeping in damp bedding where it could also be peeing in compartment?

[Chaff 3,636]

Mrs took to get 45 quid later antibiotics Celine injection she then latched to wife's thumb got her with me in carrybox kids giving her honey and water through a syringe every couple of hours, vet said 50/50 chance she has a stomach infection she pooing green now !

No idea where she got it from

[wilbur foxhound 480]

the sleeping compartment is to big and not warm enough put plenty of straw in the sleeping compartment

[The one 8,533]

I'm struggling with this as you said you have two and presumable they both eat the same food ? Makes you wonder why ones poorly and the others fine ? You don't do anything different with them ?

[Chaff 3,636]

I'm struggling with this as you said you have two and presumable they both eat the same food ? Makes you wonder why ones poorly and the others fine ? You don't do anything different with them ?

Exactly I don't know what the cause of it could be?

[Chaff 3,636]

Just had chat to old boy in pub that know his ferrets said raw chicken bones they can damage gut and cause infection ?

[Guest vin]

Just had chat to old boy in pub that know his ferrets said raw chicken bones they can damage gut and cause infection ?

 

if your giving it cows milk that will make it poorly.. ferrets are lactose intolerant.

 

and the old boy in the pub is talking out of his pint pot.. raw chicken bones wont harm them,especially wings etc etc.. baked in the oven chicken bones become brittle and can shatter,causing problems..but raw is soft and easily digested.

[Chaff 3,636]

 

Just had chat to old boy in pub that know his ferrets said raw chicken bones they can damage gut and cause infection ?

 

if your giving it cows milk that will make it poorly.. ferrets are lactose intolerant.

 

and the old boy in the pub is talking out of his pint pot.. raw chicken bones wont harm them,especially wings etc etc.. baked in the oven chicken bones become brittle and can shatter,causing problems..but raw is soft and easily digested.

Fair does mate she had cow juice this morning thought it might pick her up bad move by the sounds, just given her a drop of honey and water opened box and she put her head out the top seems to have picked up a tad, perhaps antibiotics are working ?

[The one 8,533]

Nothing wrong with raw chicken bones after I empty the freezers of rabbits mine get fed on chicken carcasses for the rest of the summer till I start ferreting again

[Guest vin]

Nothing wrong with raw chicken bones after I empty the freezers of rabbits mine get fed on chicken carcasses for the rest of the summer till I start ferreting again

Same here.. mine love them carcasses.