HELP!!POOP questions

[Pierre0614]

I'm looking for suggestions on my boy's poop...



I'm a newbie to my 1y4m ferret. Pierre is a lovely boy from Pathvalley farm.

I need suggestions for the poops after my boy changed to the raw diet three months ago.

He eats kibble this July, and I decided to change his diet from kibble to raw food. I look through many posts to learn how to change the raw and follow the steps as people suggested. However, he refused all of the raw meat. I have no choice but to try Freeze-Dried Raw(RDB). He happily accepted it. And diarrhea began from then.

He keeps having the liquid poops with mucous, runny, seedy…. This problem lasted for three months. I didn't worry about it because he eats a lot and weighs from 1.5kg to 1.8kg. I thought it was a good diet for him. But on 10th Oct. In the routine body examination, my vet told me the poops weren't normal. Maybe he is allergic to raw chicken in the RDB. Considering he has well-formed poop with salmon can. My vet suggested changing the protein in the RDB.

Thus, I try to change the diet from chicken to salmon, rabbit, duck, and goose. But still, have the liquid poop with the new protein I provided. He refused to have beef meat and goat meat. Having no choice, I changed his diet to kibble. Yes, he got well-formed poop with kibble. But the new problem is that he hates kibbles and wants the RDB. I changed his diet to kibble on 22nd Oct, and he lost weight from 1.8kg to 1.6kg in 5 days.

I'm worried about him...

As I don't want to give him kibbles, which he hates, and I hate. I want advice on the next step.

Right now, it looks like he only gets diarrhea from RDB, not from the can or kibble.

I attached the gallery of poop photos..

postimg.cc/gallery/VmtDscj

[unclejoe]

Hi there. I am not an expert on raw feeding, but I am not familiar with RDB freeze dried, as I am in the USA. A net search doesn't give any results for RDB.
can you show us a pic of the package and ingredients? Do you rehydrate the food with water before feeding?
The seedy poops indicate either excess or undigested fat.
Some ferrets are allergic to chicken. A raw diet should include muscle, organs and bones, even if it's bone meal, to be balanced. Hopefully other raw feeders will jump in soon to help.

[Corvidophile]

If the poop never firmed up over the course of three months, there’s likely an allergy at play. Try separating out your various proteins into longer trial periods all alone to see what causes the diarrhea and what doesn’t. Canned is not as good as raw, but it’s much better than kibble, so if you have to stick to that it’s not the end of the world.

[Charlie]

Is your ferret getting any bone meal? I don't feed freeze dried but I'm guessing there is no bone in freeze dried raw. The ground food has ground bone in it. My thought is that he doesn't have enough bone in his diet so he has the diarrhea.

I feed my ferret raw meat with bone in it and whole mice. I know when I feed the muscle meals to my ferret his poops are a little looser and when he eats more bone meals he has more solid poops.  The mice meals have the best formed poops.

[abbeytheferret6]

I changed my boy to all rodents except duck hearts. Mice, rat, and Asf rats is mainly what he eats. He just does not do well on the Frankenprey diet, which I mainly used chicken for bone and quail. I think it may be the feathered protein he can not handle. One vet said he needed roughage. He gets roughage from the fur of mice. The duck hearts do give him very lose black stool. the blackness is from the blood rich meat like in organs. The diet is expensive but i can afford it for just one ferret. He did very well on guinea pig too, but Hare Today quit selling them. I think they may sell grinds in that, but i would butcher the 1- 1 1/2 pd guinea pigs.