Green poop while transitioning

[griffyn]

So originally my ferrets were on marshalls kibble because thats what they were being fed at the pet store, so I switched them to wysong epigen 90 digestive support and there stomachs never fully agreed with it so then I decided I would just go raw and I bought a variety of grinds with bone meat liver included. They both ate the grinds no problem , there wasn’t a transitioning phase they just have been gobbling it up. Today is day 2 and I was checking out their poop and one of them is having green poops. Should I be worried or is this just their digestive track getting used to the new food?

[unclejoe]

Any time you have a change of diet, especially a radical one like sudden transition to a completely different diet, you can expect a change in poops. How green is green? And how many times? It may take a few days to adjust.  Poops should get darker and firmer.  Can you get a pic of the green stuff?  You may have to add bone meal to get firmer results

[griffyn]

Hey. I emptied their litter baskets out and am going to keep track of to see if they’re getting better like I suspect. I found the poop chart for raw and I think they’re just getting acustomed to the new diet. Also when you guys say you feed bone in, say like a chicken leg do they actually eat the entire bone in the leg?

[Corvidophile]

Yes, they do crunch through and eat the whole bone, but a chicken leg might be too dense for beginning raw eaters. Try wings first, much smaller bone. You can smash up the leg bone in a bag with a hammer first to get them started on bigger bones.

[griffyn]

Heres the poop

imgur.com/a/w9GjOhp

It doesn’t look to good, any suggestions?

[Corvidophile]

Not too bad, actually. Probably needs to get used to the higher water and fat content in raw. Give some bone or bonemeal to firm things up in the meantime.