Molly
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Shedding
Mar 15, 2018 8:51:00 GMT -5
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Post by Molly on Mar 15, 2018 8:51:00 GMT -5
Is it normal for ferrets to shed a lot of hair around spring? (Now)
Two of my girls have been leaving their hammocks full of hair. I know ferrets shed about twice a year. Just wanted to be sure lol! They don’t have any bald patches.
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Post by LindaM on Mar 15, 2018 13:03:01 GMT -5
Yes, absolutely. They'll be getting rid of their winter coats right about now. Mine are all shedding right now too.. ferrets and cat alike.
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Post by unclejoe on Mar 15, 2018 16:51:23 GMT -5
they'll do that. sometimes quite dramatically. Silvers/pandas often shed most of their color and "roan out" to almost all or all white, becoming a DEW, and some will "blow the coat," leaving only the peach fuzz replacement hairs. Poppy blew her coat once, but only once in 6 years, and scared the heck out of me. She was healthy and fluffy one day and the next she was this skinny fuzzy little thing that had Poppy's eyes and personality but her lovely coat was just gone, left in her bed overnight. It grew back as lovely as ever. She was a sable.
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Post by Sherry on Mar 16, 2018 7:42:56 GMT -5
With some you can hold them up and pluck out the winter coat Just an fyi- they can also drop a LOT of weight very quickly. Usually in about 3 weeks.
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Post by bishop24 on Mar 16, 2018 10:05:20 GMT -5
I learned during my guys first spring that ferrets have ALOT of hair. It was everywhere and it only took him about a week to drop it all! Just make sure to feed them plenty of egg and brush them because he ended up ingested too much hair and threw up a huge clump of it. I was lucky because it usually ends up causing an intestinal blockage.
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Post by Heather on Mar 16, 2018 15:00:10 GMT -5
I've been seeing sheds of huge amounts...drowning in clouds of fur LOL I plucked Lady Lola until she got all snippy about it. Now she's wearing a spotted coat with little hairy pants ciao
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Post by olenka on Mar 23, 2018 11:25:11 GMT -5
Yes, mine are shedding like crazy these days! Give them some kind of laxative once a week to avoid hair balls. Either an egg or FerretLax
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