Leaving Ferrets

[Welsh_red 4,796]

How long would you leave ferrets for

Edited September 20, 2017 by Welsh_red

[Fat-Ferret 857]

How may are there? for a couple, two rabbits would be plenty and stick on a spare water bottle just in case.

 

I have 12, 6 in each and run and have many times left them from a friday to sunday - few rabbits and two bottles on each run.

[Welsh_red 4,796]

How may are there? for a couple, two rabbits would be plenty and stick on a spare water bottle just in case.

 

I have 12, 6 in each and run and have many times left them from a friday to sunday - few rabbits and two bottles on each run.

I've got a pair of kits in 1 outside hutch and a adult hob inside a shed. Both hutches have 3 water bottles each anyway. I might just get a friend to come check the water in the outside hutch if theirs a frost by any chance

[rabbit demon 302]

Wild ferrets could go longer without making a decent kill than what your going to leave them. Iv left mine in the run for four days. I just gave them enough nuts and extra water bottles and they were sound. Gave them nuts as it was summer, wasnt wanting to come back to maggots in the run.

[tsteve9999 456]

I occasionally give mine a day without food as I'm sure they wouldn't feed every day in the wild, so yours should be sound if you feed them well before you go.

[Fellman Mark 611]

I've got two Jill's that I feed 3 times a week I alway have do it like this and never had any issues

[Welsh_red 4,796]

Cheers for the answers

[The one 8,530]

for a weekend its easy extra water bottles a fresh and a frozen rabbit they can only gorge on the fresh rabbit and can play scraping whatever on the frozen rabbit , any longer i like somebody to check on them with strict instructions unless you burn the house down i dont want to know

[Jax13 251]

Mine have a day or two each week with no food anyway because the greedy sods will just eat and eat and they end up carrying too much weight.

 

I'd chuck in a normal volume of fresh bunny and then similar frozen for the following day if your worried.

 

I'd avoid giving biscuit if your leaving them a couple of days purely because they will drink 5 times more compared to meat but, even a day without water ain't gonna kill them at this time of year.

[Bobtheferret 1,265]

As others have said I don't feed mine everyday anyway, l only feed whole carcass and if they were in the wild they would not kill everyday. Most predators don't, they make a kill gorge themselves and then rest up before hunting again. Follow the advice already given and you'll be fine, ferrets are unbelievably tough little buggers!!!

[nothernlite 18,104]

Leave mine for up to 4 days just leave dry food in with the older ferrets the young one 3bof then I will.leave a rabbit and then a frozen one as well

[talt 878]

None of my business but i wouldn't be advertising the fact that i would be away and leaving ferrets etc. unattended. Not everyone who reads these threads is a nice guy and some cnuts just can't seem to leave things alone that don't belong to them.

[Welsh_red 4,796]

None of my business but i wouldn't be advertising the fact that i would be away and leaving ferrets etc. unattended. Not everyone who reads these threads is a nice guy and some cnuts just can't seem to leave things alone that don't belong to them.

Fair enough point

[talt 878]

It would be best from a safety point of view and also a welfare view if you could leave the ferrets and hutch round a mates place for the duration of your time away. You could put a padlock on the cage and think they would be safe but a lock only stops an honest man. I had six ferrets AND a six foot by three foot padlocked hutch stolen when we were moving, while i was taking a load to the new house.

[Aussie Whip 4,197]

I know a bloke who has his ferrets on a property he visits once a week with self feeders and waterers.I personally don't think you should leave any animal unattended more than a day as they rely on you for everthing and anything could go wrong in your absence.