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Post by Heather on Jul 24, 2015 11:12:11 GMT -5
Make sure that your diet is balanced and the best you can offer him at this time. Kits grow at such an alarming rate and use so much of their resources to grow that at this time would be your best time to try and repair by diet. It can be done if the jill's diet was the issue or if he just didn't cut a break at the food bowl when fighting for food. Hopefully, by offering him the best possible diet, supplementing with bone meal you can win this fight without having to do any surgeries of having the little one suffer with structure issues for the rest of his life ciao
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Skiff
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Post by Skiff on Aug 2, 2015 14:48:03 GMT -5
Just an update on this, I don't know what the original problem was, but he seems fine now, he's all hoppy and war dancey no sign of any limp or injury, guess he healed.
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Post by lyles on Aug 2, 2015 18:14:56 GMT -5
Just an update on this, I don't know what the original problem was, but he seems fine now, he's all hoppy and war dancey no sign of any limp or injury, guess he healed. What type of cage or container was the ferret kept in where you bought it? I have a suspected wardy silver that I bought from petco here not too long ago. When I first bought her she had so much trouble walking that she dragged herself across the floor. Now she is able to run, hop and pounce just fine, but is still unable to jump and wobbles when she walks slowly. Nei (my dark sable), had similar hind weakness as well when I first bought her, but she was completely fine after a week. I suspect that this is from being kept in those acrylic tanks at petco. They only apply just enough bedding to cover surface area and it's just shredded brown paper. The ground underneath is smooth and slick, giving no traction to move around on. Factor in that those tanks are way too small for a ferret to stay in longer than a week and you will get muscle development problems. Both from the confined space and the inability to walk properly due to the unstable substrate. If this is the case, I suspect that the rate of recovery depends greatly on the age that they are forced to be in such conditions and the amount of time. A very young kit denied proper muscle stimuli could end up with life time handicaps.
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Post by msav on Aug 2, 2015 19:23:53 GMT -5
I have a theory that Ferrets will get a tattoo marked between the toes on ferrets with genetic anomalies/injuries, my Bleu has a tattoo between the toes on the foot that he had/has problems with.
there has been no concrete evidence as to why some get marked between the toes.
I wondered if they marked them so they could track their healing progress.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 20:00:58 GMT -5
going to inspect mine (idea)Is he a blaze?
no marks on my blaze
will check toe pads tomorrow
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Post by lyles on Aug 2, 2015 20:05:01 GMT -5
going to inspect mine (idea)Is he a blaze? I know the question wasn't directed at me, but I discovered that Alice is a blaze. It is hard to see because of the silver, but behind the black patch on her head there is a short and narrow (yet easily) seen white stripe.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 20:05:44 GMT -5
is she deaf?
I wonder if some blazes can hear--will have to research.
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Post by lyles on Aug 2, 2015 20:09:02 GMT -5
Mine? No, but she does have some indication of vision impairment. She has no Tapetum lucidum, or rather instead of reflecting light you see a very dark blue hue. She has missed me a few times and ran right into the wall lol, she is also easily spooked by any movement from the distance.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 20:22:24 GMT -5
Oh gosh. Concerning Tattoos "MF does the toe tattoos often to identify the vet that does the fixing and descenting of the ferrets." this was posted in Ferret Universe 2007 on www.lovingferrets.com"I have contacted Marshall's in the past about this topic and they told me that every ferret of marshall farms has the 2 tats in their ear however just some of them have a tat on a toe. The dot on the toe indicated which vet did the spay/nueter or descenting surgeries I don't remember which surgery it was that they said....I haven't checked my new babies yet but out of my other 5 babies only Junior has this tat on one of his toes...
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Post by msav on Aug 2, 2015 22:57:14 GMT -5
going to inspect mine (idea)Is he a blaze? no marks on my blaze will check toe pads tomorrow Bleu is a blaze and he is deaf. Mogwai has a white streak down the top of his head and stops below his neck and he can hear. only Bleu has the toe tat. I have heard that it was to identify the vet who did the Fix. I don't buy this, there is way too many ferrets with no markings on any toes. for that to provide any informative purpose it would have to be consistent. marshalls has been really secretive about what the toe tatts mean. a lot of BS answers. this lead me to my theory, that it was to mark sick, injured,defective ferrets.(rehabilitated) If they came out with that statement and it became common knowledge people would avoid toe tatted ferrets.
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Post by lyles on Aug 3, 2015 0:07:07 GMT -5
I checked Alice and didn't see any toe tats on her.
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