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Post by goingpostal on Feb 18, 2011 22:42:01 GMT -5
I've read on here about kibble babies "crashing" from lack of carbs in the beginning of raw feeding. Is this common? The past few days I have been keeping an eye on Pip, he seems...lazier? I mean, he's eating fine, he's still running around trying to escape, just at a slower, lesser pace than his norm. I weighed him, and he is down a bit, but he was really fat previously, like really fat and is still thick. He was at 3.3 pounds and is now at 3.15 pounds or so . When he's lying around, he doesn't seem spacey or lethargic like an insulinomic ferret does, but he has been flat ferreting. I don't have a blood glucose meter here.
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Post by Heather on Feb 18, 2011 23:34:48 GMT -5
I've never had this happen but I've heard of people on occasion complaining that their fuzzies have exhibited almost lethargic type symptoms. Where are you in the switch? Are you still feeding kibbles? How much fat is in your raw? Remember, fat takes the place of your carbs for energy. ciao
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Post by Sherry on Feb 19, 2011 0:36:38 GMT -5
She's actually graduated- quite successfully, I might add- and within two weeks I'd just keep an eye on him for now. He's still eating fine and all?
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 19, 2011 9:00:30 GMT -5
No kibbles for a couple weeks now, and a mostly whole prey diet, but the meat days have been pork which had fat on it, and chicken wings, this morning he was up and about hunting for food and ran over to nab his share, and last night he ran right over to my lap for cuddles but some times I go in their room and he just stays in his bed or hammock which is unlike him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2011 12:41:26 GMT -5
How old is he?
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 19, 2011 14:23:35 GMT -5
Unknown, probably 4-5.
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Post by Sherry on Feb 19, 2011 14:38:22 GMT -5
So- he's eating/drinking/peeing/pooping just fine? If so- what is the weather like there? Sometimes mine will almost hibernate at times during the winter. Has anything besides the diet changed? Room rearranged, cage mates picking on him? When Lucrezia starts getting too dominant, or biting too hard, the others will not play with her. Which depresses her. I'll see a lot of flat ferreting, a lot of staying in bed, or going back to it often. If you really feel like something is wrong though- take him to the vet for a check up. It certainly won't hurt! Lethargy is just one symptom of a variety of illnesses and diseases.
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 19, 2011 15:15:44 GMT -5
I catch him eating plenty and pee/poop is fine, we had a really warm couple of days, and now back to chilly, there's no radiator in their room so it's generally cooler than the rest of the house anyways but they like that. I did just rearrange their room recently, and moved the cage. Now today he seems normal, after the food immediately, then right to the door trying to jump out. He is adrenal, and got his normal shot beginning of the month. I'm going to keep an eye on his eating and weight, not terribly concerned at this point, just always paranoid when a ferret acts "off" at all.
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Post by Sherry on Feb 19, 2011 16:00:45 GMT -5
That's not a bad way to be with ferrets. It's possible it was the room change. I know one person who's female had really off stools for a week when she rearranged their room This ferret is like this with any real change.
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 19, 2011 17:27:04 GMT -5
The worst part is Pip is especially hard to read, he took a long long time to dook or actually "play", and is just now wrestling with the other ferrets, so I can't tell if him flat ferreting is just a new ferrety behavior he's discovered, or a problem.
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Post by Sherry on Feb 19, 2011 18:23:05 GMT -5
You know- that's a very valid point. Just asked Cliff, and Willow didn't flat ferret very much, if at all, before she started socializing with the other ferrets, and learned how to play. She'd had no idea how to be a ferret either.
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Post by taratee on Feb 19, 2011 18:47:20 GMT -5
maybe they enjoy it so much they are getting so full they are going into the thanksgiving food coma after eating?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2011 11:29:59 GMT -5
One thing that may help s leaving out some freeze-dried raw between meals. Kibble-fed ferrets tend to munch all day long - especially as they get older. Your ferret may not have an appetite for big meals. A little sack during the day may help a lot.
I know my kids are not big on fresh raw that has been sitting out for a while that's starting the dry out a bit (this happens fast in Colorado's arid climate).
-jennifer
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Post by goingpostal on Feb 20, 2011 11:39:57 GMT -5
Well the food hasn't been sitting around long, they've pretty much doubled the amount they've been eating over the course of a week and I've been playing catchup so they've been getting fresh food 2-3x a day and I try to keep some food in there most of the day/night just because I can't quite tell how much they are going to eat yet. Also this ferret in particular is one who really doesn't seem to care if meat is days old and covered in shredded paper jerky form. He'll still eat it. He's not picky in the least.
Anyways today, went in there and he was nuts, just in a goofy playful hyper mood! Trying to get out, playing in the paper, running through the tunnels (I think maybe he just figured out these were fun).
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Post by Sherry on Feb 20, 2011 12:36:01 GMT -5
It sounds like he's finally starting to learn how to be a ferret
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