giving a jay to a ferret

[Guest olofthegr8]

earlier today i shot a jay. after 2 hours of looking for it i found it , but where i found it has quite a few rats sometimes . only after 10 mins of giving it to the ferret i remembered that rats carry weils disease/leptospirosis, could my ferret catch it?

i'll probably take him to th vets for a injection.

[Malt 379]

earlier today i shot a jay. after 2 hours of looking for it i found it , but where i found it has quite a few rats sometimes . only after 10 mins of giving it to the ferret i remembered that rats carry weils disease/leptospirosis, could my ferret catch it?

i'll probably take him to th vets for a injection.

I wouldn't worry about it. I've fed mine the odd rat before.

[stubby 175]

you really have to worry about "rats piss" rather than just a rat, if a rat had pee'd on the jay, you would have smelt it

[The one 8,586]

you really have to worry about "rats piss" rather than just a rat, if a rat had pee'd on the jay, you would have smelt it

 

 

And even then is it no rat piss on a open cut ???

[Neil Cooney. 1]

The fact you spent 2 hours looking for the jay would have kept rats away.

Your ferrets will be fine.

But why did you spend 2 hours looking for a bird to feed to ferrets, I thought you were going to say it was to be mounted. A lovely bird mounted.

[Kay 3,709]

earlier today i shot a jay. after 2 hours of looking for it i found it , but where i found it has quite a few rats sometimes . only after 10 mins of giving it to the ferret i remembered that rats carry weils disease/leptospirosis, could my ferret catch it?

i'll probably take him to th vets for a injection.

 

ferrets dont get lepto

[Neil Cooney. 1]

You learn something new every day, I didn't know that.

Are you sure?

[Kay 3,709]

You learn something new every day, I didn't know that.

Are you sure?

 

well everything i have ever read claims they are immune to it , as far as i know thats correct

[dytkos 17,945]

You learn something new every day, I didn't know that.

Are you sure?

 

well everything i have ever read claims they are immune to it , as far as i know thats correct

Anything healthy that you shoot, the ferts will love, de gut and freeze them for a fortnight ideally the defrost properly before you feed them to the ferts. Alternativeley, just chuck it in fresh! 2 points of view in one post. Devil's advocate!

Head down for a bit! Cheers, D.

[will.f11 24]

forgive me if im wrong but in a book ive recently read (the complete book of ferrets) I think it said tha the only vaccinations they need are canine distemper and leptospirosis. am I right?

[dawnraider 2]

i once read that the good old rat is one of the best sources of vitamins etc that your ferret can get,cant recall the book i lent it to my sister will get it back as it was not just informative but quite an amusing read ,the life n times of a wiley old ferreter who once fed a spider monkey given by a friend who worked at a local zoo only to be reported to the police by a neighbour for putting a baby in with his ferrets. :sick:

[Kay 3,709]

i once read that the good old rat is one of the best sources of vitamins etc that your ferret can get,cant recall the book i lent it to my sister will get it back as it was not just informative but quite an amusing read ,the life n times of a wiley old ferreter who once fed a spider monkey given by a friend who worked at a local zoo only to be reported to the police by a neighbour for putting a baby in with his ferrets. :sick:

 

wasnt that Rescus monkeys fed by mr Plummer

[dawnraider 2]

i once read that the good old rat is one of the best sources of vitamins etc that your ferret can get,cant recall the book i lent it to my sister will get it back as it was not just informative but quite an amusing read ,the life n times of a wiley old ferreter who once fed a spider monkey given by a friend who worked at a local zoo only to be reported to the police by a neighbour for putting a baby in with his ferrets. :sick:

 

wasnt that Rescus monkeys fed by mr Plummer

it could well have been,was along time ago i last read it will have to get back to you on that one

[Kay 3,709]

i once read that the good old rat is one of the best sources of vitamins etc that your ferret can get,cant recall the book i lent it to my sister will get it back as it was not just informative but quite an amusing read ,the life n times of a wiley old ferreter who once fed a spider monkey given by a friend who worked at a local zoo only to be reported to the police by a neighbour for putting a baby in with his ferrets. :sick:

 

wasnt that Rescus monkeys fed by mr Plummer

it could well have been,was along time ago i last read it will have to get back to you on that one

 

I am pretty sure its him who wrote it, cant remember which book though, donkeys yrs ago now mind

[dawnraider 2]

there was also a story about a cat getting into an awkward position in the middle of the night