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Dazbrowne 13 never had a rat in my garden since moving in 3 years ago. If I did have a rat come into my garden I wouldn’t mind so much as I’d soon deal with it. Also as a pest controller if people didn’t feed the birds I wouldn’t get as much custom as I do! So I don’t mind bird feeders!
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Hi guys I lost all my ferrets last week, it must of been distemper or bird flu that has wiped them out. Im disinfecting all the hutches and runs today. Im also making my garden fox proof as we’ve had a fox frequenting the garden and this is why I suspect distemper. I’m a pest controller by trade and really need to sort some new ferrets out as I have a lot of rabbit jobs to get on top of before spring. I can get by with just a couple ferrets for now, I like using a hob ferret so ideally I’d like a hob and a Jill but beggars can’t be choosers! I know it’s the wron
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Don’t suppose anyone around the Yorkshire area has any decent ferrets for sale? I know it’s the wrong time of year to be asking but I had ferrets to spare before that I would have passed on so I’m hoping someone else out there is in a similar position.
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Hi Guys I ended up losing all of them in the end. Took the remaining three in last Friday and the vet gave me antibiotics and rehydration fluids. She said she had a bad feeling and she was correct as none of them made it to the following morning. I just couldn’t get the fluids down them without them throwing it back up. I think it could have been distemper or bird flu. I have a fox that frequents the garden and it’s always around the ferret run and hutches as theirs always food in their (pigeons, rabbit ect) so the fix could of passed distemper onto the ferrets. Also I ha
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It has to be some sort of Virus
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Thanks for the replies. The last youngster died over night and now my older ferrets are unwell. In at the vet’s now to see if they can help them. Brought them indoors yesterday so I can keep a closer eye on them and soon noticed they all have diarrhoea and occasionally been sick. So it’s the dehydration that’s getting to them. Tried the dehydration fluids but that’s only gone so far. I’m absolutely gutted, I know everyone thinks their ferrets are the best but I had a really good line that I spent a lot of time breeding, bringing on and caring for.
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went were very weak. Another high risk is human flu virus, I recently had a Jill (kept separate as she was not liked by the others ) die in 48 hours in the week I had a flu vaccine, maybe coincidence although I'd had a nasty cold a week before as well On diagnosis, anything is possible if you find the right laboratory.
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Funny that as I’m in Harrogate which isn’t so far from Leyburn and I do a bit up there.
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Ok thanks guys for your input. I have had the odd loss of a single ferret unexplained but never this. It’s just weird how all my older ferrets are fine. I’m glad I still have my older ferrets at least as those are my go to ferrets so I’ll get by work wise but it’s still a big loss. I’ve one yearling ferret that ain’t looking to clever, when you say rehydration fluids what are they? Do you get it from the vets or make up yourself? Simon.
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Hi all. I’m really gutted to say just come to feed my ferrets today and I’ve found 4 dead and 1 on its last legs. Never had anything like this happen. I read an article last year in the Country man’s weekly about something similar happening to another fella. He believed it was from feeding squirrels and possibly Squirrel parapox that had caused the deaths. I was sceptical when I first read this as I’ve fed hundreds if not over a thousand squirrels to my ferrets over the years with no issue. Anyone else had something similar happen? Also anyone have any thoughts on Squirrel
