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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 9:56:02 GMT -5
Yes I even tried that, but he spits it out, or he takes it into his mouth and go somewhere in the corner or under the bed and spit it.How can I force him to eat bigger pieces?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 10:46:42 GMT -5
It might help if you let him get used to the pieces that he eats, so he eats them by himself. Then gradually, day by day, increase the meat piece size by a small amount. As you increase size you might have to feed him with a spoon again. When that happens just let him get used to that size of meat until he eats it by himself again. After that increase again, and so on.
It also helps when you feed the meat bits with a soup. Then the ferrets lick the soup on the meat and are often more accepting of the pieces.
Soup is blended up meat. 240 grams muscle meat 30 grams heart 30 grams liver 1/2 teaspoon of eggshell powder A bit of water, so the mix is like yogurt
I was switching mine and I gave him just chicken pieces at one point which I had to hand/force feed, and he freaked out and ran away for every meal. Then my mentor suggested that I put them in soup, and he ate them right up. I also used to add some egg to the soup that I made, they can have about 1 egg per week per ferret.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 11:17:05 GMT -5
I tried to give him chicken and egg but he starts to throw up,even the kibble that has chicken and dried egg makes him throw up, we are often at the vets beacuse of his throwing up, and for now he is good with rabbit,lamb and beaf.Since I removed kibble totaly for last 15 days he didn't throw up
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 12:02:18 GMT -5
That sounds like he has an allergy to chicken.
Is it just chicken that he throws up, or other meat too?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 12:16:56 GMT -5
It was Just chicken
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 16:28:44 GMT -5
Chicken is a common allergy or intolerance. I would avoid chicken for awhile and see if anything else makes him throw up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 1:14:48 GMT -5
For the last 15/16 days when I started fed him with rabbit/lamb/ beaf he didn`t throw up.Now the only problem is poop who isn`t formed, but it`s beacuse I am still learnig how to make him a good balanced meal, and in the fact that he is spiting bones from the food, for that reason I order bone meal (powder) to added into the meal. In saturday I have day off and I plan to make him new meals, I would like if someone could help me to make him a good balanced meals , so every suggestions will be helpful.
At home I have rabbit, with heart, lungs,kidneys and livers (1,5kg) , beaf without bones (350 g), pumpkin oil, and I plan to buy beaf tongue. What else I need to buy to make him a balanced soup / meal?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 15:56:30 GMT -5
So today I went to work,and I leave him meat in cage to see if he will eat it,but he didn't even touch it,I'm worried about that
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Post by dorena261-Natalia on Feb 14, 2015 8:13:54 GMT -5
you don't have to buy anything else for the soup. with the beef tongue and rabbit heart should be enough taurine in the soup.
make the soup like @sveta wrote.
240 grams muscle meat 30 grams heart 30 grams liver - HERE YOU CAN PUT HALF LIVER/HALF OTHER ORGAN 1/2 teaspoon of eggshell powder -OR BONE POWDER A bit of water, so the mix is like yogurt
you can make more soup and freeze it in the ice cubes tray and defreeze cubes when and how much you need. than add in one meal small pieces of meat few millimeters big so Freddy can get used to eat pieces of meat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 8:19:06 GMT -5
Great, I will go with that, but I am still worried with the fact that he don`t want eat while I am at work, should I return kibble back or it is ok to leave him dehydrated beaf?
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Post by dorena261-Natalia on Feb 14, 2015 8:21:55 GMT -5
when you make the soup and if he wants to eat (and i'm sure he will), you can leave frozen cube with a bit of water for later. when that cube is defrosted (in soup) and he's hungry, he will eat
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 12:16:39 GMT -5
He is a little spoiled stubborn boy and I really hope this will work, two days ago I was measuring him a glucose, after I came home from work,I was gone for 9 hours, in cage I left him dehydrated meat, so I don`t know for sure how long was from his last meal, I fed him in 5:30 in the morning, I was using malt paste , his glucose was 4,2mmol/l. Is that too low?
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Post by dorena261-Natalia on Feb 15, 2015 12:57:07 GMT -5
i don't understand that part with a malt paste? you used it before measuring or during his meal at 5,30? everything below 3,8 is considered as insulinoma. if you used malt paste before measuring, BG levels are probably lower than this.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2015 1:30:12 GMT -5
I used it before and during measuring, to make him still.
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Post by dorena261-Natalia on Feb 16, 2015 8:09:24 GMT -5
malt paste is full of sugar which means those measured leves are probably not valid ones. if you can ask your boyfriend to hold him while you're taking the blood sample, and put malt paste that moment when you stab the needle (before the sugar enter in the bloodstream), that should be valid level.
and he should be without the food for 4 hrs before measuring
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