Shawna
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Post by Shawna on Oct 11, 2015 14:06:02 GMT -5
Have I mentioned how much I love my meat grinder? & my food scale?
I run my bone ins thru the grinder as well as my muscle & organs, ea in separate (labeled) containers.
I weigh out
*bone in* 12 oz game hen 12 oz duck 12 oz rabbit
muscle 1.6 oz beef 1.6 oz pork 1.6 oz duck gizzard 1.6 oz lamb 1.6 oz goat
heart/organs 6 oz chicken heart 3 oz chicken liver 1 oz pork brains 1 oz pork kidney 1 oz pork spleen
I mix it all up in a bowl & measure out 8 oz in 7 containers.
VWALLAH! 2 am 2 pm meals for 2 weasels in 1 container.
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Post by Shawna on Oct 12, 2015 18:22:40 GMT -5
The boys crashed in a cubby that I made next to their cage. Mia (her constant licking is keeping an infection from healing. At least the onesie of embarrassment is more comfortable to wear than the cone of shame). The woozle hanging out next to her is Dexter. He gets along much better with her than Zim does who, on occasion will nip at her which in turn briefly scares her then gets her all excited & in to play mode & starts barking & prancing. Dex, on the other hand just sniffs back & goes about his business. Dexter taking a quiet moment with me. I enjoy those moments when they will cuddle with me.
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Post by Shawna on Dec 2, 2015 18:23:25 GMT -5
STUBBORN woozles!!!
GRRRRRR
They can & will go most of the day hardly eating if there is red meat involved
So I've been weighing out a weeks worth of food for both woozles together in one bowl & mixing it up & dividing it into 8oz containers since they each eat 4oz a day (give or take) since its like murder getting them to eat the muscle when i gave it to them when it was muscle & bone in days.
The twirps would literally go all day without eating (since I work from home & their cage is right next to my desk, I can tell when they eat). So in hopes of getting them to eat, & more often, instead of having separate bone in, muscle & organ meals, I measured out 1 weeks of food in 1 bowl & I would have 4 bowls for 1 month & put them in the 8oz containers so 1 container feed both my boys instead of 4 2 oz containers.
Well! They are just as stubborn as before!! They may take a few bites then walk away or sniff lick walk away but they'll go all day before eating!! It's nerve wracking I tell ya!!
So now. I buy beef blood from the asian market & will mix a little salmon oil & lots of blood & usually they eat it. Once in awhile like 2-3x a week (sometimes more sometimes less) Ill throw a quail egg in too.
YAY blood!!
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Post by Shawna on Mar 15, 2016 1:58:23 GMT -5
It's been awhile... so the ferrets have been back on kibble for about 3 weeks now and i hate it. I'm totally feeding my boys cheeseburgers! i have had 0 time & ingredients to make more food for them. I now have more food now and more time to make the food but am currently doing Mia (my roommate's dog)'s food at the moment. they'll be back on the good stuff again soon
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Post by Shawna on Apr 27, 2016 0:10:09 GMT -5
after about a week after this post i made some more food for them.
yay! no more cheeseburgers!!
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Post by Shawna on Nov 17, 2016 23:16:39 GMT -5
So... now Dexter has Small Cell Lymphoma as well.
I have been told by the Washington State Ferret Rescue Director that if it wasnt for the fact that the boys are on a raw, they would have passed away a lot earlier from their health issue.
I've moved 4 hours south of where I used to live & had to change vets who is an hour away in Beaverton, OR
Dexter has two lumps along his jaws & now Zim has developed a mass behind one of his eyes that is pushing it forward
So now.. they are both taking Prednisolone 0.25 ml 2x daily & Chlorambucil 0.2 ml 2x weekly which i just got & will be starting them on it tomorrow & Zim gets Enrofloxacin (Baytril) 1/2 of a 22.7 mg tablet daily til its gone. This is all fairly new for them so I'm hoping they go into remission.
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Post by Shawna on Jan 15, 2017 1:00:52 GMT -5
WOW! I can't believe that the boys have been on a natural diet for 22 months now. Coming up on two years!! Dexter still doesn't eat as much as Zim does. You think that since Dex is a year older & a little bit longer/bigger that he'd be the one eating more too... I have added some supplements to their diet since they were lacking in vitamin C & Taurine in their diet so now add a couple drops of Oasis Vita-Drops for Ferrets as well as a couple of pinches of vitamin C & Taurine powders a tsp of salmon oil for the both of them in both their morning & evening meals & I will give them 1 quail egg each 1x or 2x a week
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Post by Shawna on Apr 8, 2017 22:30:19 GMT -5
This will be my last posting for Dexter & Zim.
Dexter passed Tues 3/21 & Zim yesterday 4/7.
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