Pellets

[DeepEarth 104]

You often hear the pet brigade informing you that you must remove the shot area of an animal before feeding it to the ferts, so they don't get lead poisoning. Feed shot rabbit most days, never had a problem.

 

Any of you find many of these when cleaning out?

 

[Ferret mad Dave 65]

Always find shot rolling around the hutch never done mine any harm

[stealthy1 3,964]

I had a few drop out of a rabbit a couple of months ago, and shotgun pellets

[The one 8,592]

Pick up a few when im cleaning them out and seen air rifle pellets and shot gun pellets stuck under the skin on rabbit fur i take out

[BenjaminCadd 109]

Have always wonderd others foughts, but i put my quary in with shot still in it, and do find the odd pellet.

[saintsman54 15]

The digestive systems of carnivores are too quick for lead to react and poison the animal, however animals like cows which have longer digestive systems it can cause problems. There are scientific papers looking into lead shot being collected in hay and siledge and causing problems.

[max abell 198]

Have fed shot birds and rabbits to the ferrets for donkeys years never had a problem with lead shot/bullets find the odd bit in the court when cleaning

[theferreter 311]

feed mine shot rabbits all the time with out any problems