Too much protein can lead to health issues
Feb 4, 2016 12:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by Heather on Feb 4, 2016 12:47:47 GMT -5
Kidney failure has a number of contributing factors and how you feed is only one of them. If you feed a raw diet then chances are you've removed one of those factors. That doesn't remove genetic and it doesn't remove biological, it doesn't remove stressors and it doesn't remove viral....the one factor you can never remove....random. If you've got 6 ferrets who are all fed the exact same thing...and one comes down with kidney issues, how can you point your finger at that one...and say it was caused by the diet? You cannot. If anything you have to look to outside factors. Now if all 6 of your ferrets suddenly came down with renal failure you could possibly look at diet. After the 30+ years I've been feeding raw, I'd be looking to biological myself. Even viruses can cause kidney issues. Is this wee one your breeding? If so look at it's siblings, are any of the others affected...no? then look to the individual. No matter what care you do, diet, breeding you're always going to have quirks, flukes, mutations. poop happens. In the 50+ ferrets who've lived with me, I've had a couple with renal failure. They were random. I could not point my finger to their diet, they occurred at different times (weren't even alive together), didn't come from the same farm, didn't even eat the same kibbles when they came to me. That type of conclusion is like saying all my ferrets are fed raw and they got adrenal disease....so raw is the contributing factor.
Diet as a contributing factor.....kidney stones and dried peas...now that's a dietary conclusion. The only similar issue with all those ferrets with kidney stones, a particular brand of kibbles, with a particular ingredient when this had not occurred before. In statistical analysis, your ferret is an anomaly. In the case of that particular kibble, those ferrets were a constant.
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Diet as a contributing factor.....kidney stones and dried peas...now that's a dietary conclusion. The only similar issue with all those ferrets with kidney stones, a particular brand of kibbles, with a particular ingredient when this had not occurred before. In statistical analysis, your ferret is an anomaly. In the case of that particular kibble, those ferrets were a constant.
ciao