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Post by maja01 on Feb 8, 2016 8:28:54 GMT -5
Some fresher pics of the ferrets Drdra Drdra checking the weekly menue ... Vega
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Post by maja01 on Feb 8, 2016 8:33:18 GMT -5
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Post by maja01 on Mar 28, 2016 15:32:46 GMT -5
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Post by raynebc on Mar 30, 2016 1:03:54 GMT -5
So many beautiful pictures!
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Post by lee on Apr 9, 2016 5:39:02 GMT -5
Very nice photos. They all look so happy playing in the snow. I wish we had snow like that here
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ferretdude
Junior Member
Currently owned by a fluffy angora, a poley hybrid and a naughty sandy kit
Posts: 211
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Post by ferretdude on Apr 11, 2016 7:01:25 GMT -5
cute fuzzles. I really like Drdra as I have a soft spot for hybrids and omg Gusztav is HUGE
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Post by maja01 on Apr 22, 2016 6:42:51 GMT -5
He was quite big in winter - 2,2 kg (4,8 lbs), now he has lost all his baby and winter fat and somehow shrunk to "mere" 1,78 kg (3,9 lbs) Yes well ... i didn't really want another old/sick/traumatised ferret at the moment - wanted to take some brake from fostering (and I did "forward" one byting girl), but the older one of those two is just to screwed up for anyone else at the moment (adrenal, skinny, on US there are visible changes in her spleen, abdominal lymph nodes and has cystic kidneys). I will change their food (eating some crapy kibble and Lejla eats some prebiotic supplement for cats, one of the problems is she eats more this than her food) and do my best. They are really sweet - especially Lejla (sandy), the sick one. She has no problems at all being in the new environment - she wants to cuddle, goes out of cage and explores everything - she is quite active for the condition she is in. The other, younger one, Gucci (dark sable), is more reserved, will need some more time. Except adrenal (she has implant), she seems healthy, for now (both were on complete vet check on tuesday).
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Post by unclejoe on Apr 22, 2016 20:12:45 GMT -5
the pics I see are fantastic, but it looks like some of them didn't work..
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Post by maja01 on May 3, 2016 7:24:58 GMT -5
I guess I have moved them to other album on FB or something. Will go trough links to see what happened ... I have few profi pics of Gusztav from the february show in Prague I would like to show you He was a bitt tired of everything when we took the pics - that's why I only have those where he is not looking to the camera
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Post by Thérèse on May 4, 2016 4:31:53 GMT -5
He sure is one handsome boof of a ferret
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Post by maja01 on Jun 13, 2016 12:03:35 GMT -5
Shortly two little girls will be joining us. We get Frida (the one on the right) at the end of the month. She comes from Hungary, from same breeder as Gusztav. Her ancestors mostly come from hunting line, tough there is a polecat among them, what makes her a low hybrid jill. The other, Alice, will come from UK. Because of the laws we have to wait a bit longer before I can get her - she must be 3 months to get her passport + we have to wait 28 days that her vaccination against rabies will be valid. She is supposed to be a true polley (but ok, i gues we know how things are not all that sure with polecats bred in captivity - so I would guess her to be a hybrid).
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Post by maja01 on Aug 24, 2016 5:51:46 GMT -5
Haven't posted for a while in this thread ... and a lot happened from the last post First, few days after last post, I got a tiny little foster kit. He grew into a very nice poley hibrid and gets really well with my Hungarian girl Frida. He is now 12 weeks, somewhere in between 1200 and 1300 g (he won't stand still on the scale), really muscular with all hybrid/poley traits. Well, the downside is ... before I got him, I promised to my BF, I will give him to adoption and won't keep him (getting the two girls for breeding was a plan from last winter). It is braking my heart, but, I have to keep this promise. He is gonig to Danmark to live with a friend of mine who has experiences with crazy hybrids. If he will develop in a way he is developing now, we will use him for breeding. I planned to do a preventive cardiological check for all my (breeding) ferrets, but I was lucky and two of my colegues came up with the idea of doing cardiological study on ferrets. So I just put him into this programme and we checked him on monday - everything is ok, no congenital defects Next thing I have mixed emotions about is Hera and her litter. In short - we got a foster jill who turned out to be pregnant and gave birth to twelve kits (11 are alive and doing good). I really didn't want her to be pregnant in the first place and neither I wanted her to have such a big litter ... but it is what it is and it is a pleasure to watch little tiny ferrets grow nicely. Just few days before Here gave birth, one of my oldies fosters, Leia, "crashed". Nothing we did (antibiotics, syringe feeding, ...) helped, she was only going for worse and I put her to sleep on thursday Nothing obvious, she had a bunch of underlying issues from suspected spleen cancer and obvious adrenal on. Her mate Gucci was really attached to her, and as I suspected ... she is now in a really bad depression. It was ok for the first day, but declined after this ... Most of the time sleeping, now she even refuses to cuddle with me and is not eating on her own. So I syringe feed her every 4 hours. Yesterday she had really low glucose values - can't tell yet if it is from not eating enough or her insulinoma popped out (have seen it before in similar condition). Before they came to me, they were of course fed some garbage kibble. I really hope she will have enough strenght and will to go trough this mourning process. The last thing that happened - the second of my girls came down from UK. She is a nice, dark, big (930 g at 4,5 months) poley girl. After a feces check and parasite prevention I put her together with my big boys and they are doing fine. There was some rough play at the beginig, but now they are all ok. Even Vega, who is still in a rut, has calmed down - he probably figured out she is not "into this stuff" ... So as you see is quite an emotional roller coaster time for me. Literaly jumping from sheer happiness to those bad sadness feelings. I guess this is how a life with ferrets is.
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Post by abbeytheferret6 on Aug 24, 2016 7:00:19 GMT -5
Hoping your little Gucci pulls through---bless her heart. Such beautiful ferrets!
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Post by maja01 on Aug 25, 2016 7:48:50 GMT -5
It was a tough day yesterday. In teh evening she refused to eat anything. The chicken smoothie ended all over me, same happened to rabit, I tried egg with no success and in the end she licked 30 ml of "not-so-good-for-ferrets" probiotic liquid (i got it with them from their original owner) from my fingers. No syringe, no bowl, no spoon ... just from my fingers. I was so desperate that I wanted to try live young mouse ... but it was not needed. Today I wanted to take her with me to the clinic, to exclude anything health related, but in the morning she started chewing on a hamster I gave yesterday. Now she ate another 30 ml of that stuff mixed with chicken liver and chicken hearts. I hope this is it, that yesterday we hit the bottom and that it will go only for better and that in few days she will be eating normaly.
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Post by Sherry on Aug 25, 2016 9:35:00 GMT -5
Oh fingers crossed she has turned that corner and now decided to live.
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