GUTTED :(

[bullseye76 16]

got a phone call from my 14 year old daughter today whilst i was at work to tell me 1 of my 10 week old kits had died i could have cried i love them little stinkers!! she was fine when we went to bed but when my daughter checked them this morning as she does every morning she noticed the kit, it had some blue die around her face and was bleeding from the mouth as she died!! i can't understand it and have been racking my brains to think and theres nothing that was any different from the past 2 weeks we have had them its horrible when a animal you keep dies in your care i feel proper gutted:(

atb stu

[whippet 99 2,613]

where theres livestock, you will always have deadstock......................not nice when you have done all the hard work.....atb

[bullseye76 16]

cheers whippet 99 never a true word said!!! just wish i knew why!!

and she was a lovely little jill the breeder had handled them very well so no nipping and she was starting to really get a little personality!!

atb stu

[darbo 4,779]

unfortunatly you do lose stock over the years and upsetting it can. i thought bleeding from the mouth would suggest internal bleeding. but the cause of it would better to come from a expert.expect to lose animals especially when you work them a occupational hazard in some cases. although others never seem to get injured i am mainly taking about dogs here. all you can do is carry on its all part of the experience of owning animals.good luck for the future.atb

[whippet 99 2,613]

cheers whippet 99 never a true word said!!! just wish i knew why!!

and she was a lovely little jill the breeder had handled them very well so no nipping and she was starting to really get a little personality!!

atb stu

if your willing to travel mate i can spare one jill, geat working stock, im in somerset

[gnipper 6,892]

Blue dye? Had she been able to get near any antifreeze or anything like that?

[Moll. 1,793]

Rat poison is usually blue coated.

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

lost a young prospect myself this morning one of the neighbours been round in ferrets and not shut cage properly n my mrs found her in dog run she was gutted as she was hers great little fert as well id just introduced her to the new kits as well so just got the 2 kits now

[lurchermanuk 27]

mate had to have a lurcher put down before it was the best bitch ive had from i started keeping lurchers when the vet put it down and it died it started to bleed from the mouth and the vet told me that the dog had been poisioned or ate something that was poision so i would say that the same thing has happened to ur ferret if it has bleed from its mouth atb

[tsteve9999 456]

slug pellets are usually blue too, had she been running anywhere other than her cage?

Mine will eat insects if I'm giving them a run in the garden, I always pick up any snails or slugs before I let them out.

[dave1600d 35]

sorry to hear about the loss of your stinker mate,,i got 3 jills,,ones about 14 months,,,,,the other 2 ive had since kits,,,,,,,,,theyre 3 n half,,,,,,,,,im gonna be gutted [bANNED TEXT] that day comes that i gotta say a final goodbye to mine,,,,ATB mate,,,dave

[Hywel 53]

slug pellets are usually blue too, had she been running anywhere other than her cage?

Mine will eat insects if I'm giving them a run in the garden, I always pick up any snails or slugs before I let them out.

 

My thoughts exactly i.e. slug pellets. Where are the ferrets kept (outdoors?) and could a contaminated slug have found it's way through the mesh into the cage and taken as a snack

[bullseye76 16]

hi all thanks for your kind words and input!

the only thing i can put it down to is that she got a snail or slug she has been in a run in the garden but both of them were!! and they have been no where near any poison or slug pellets as far as I'm aware!!

atb stu

 

ps whippet thanks for the kind offer mate but its ok i have found another 1 well 2 actually to replace her but don't tell the misses !!lol

atb mate stu