Ferret Caresheet

Forgive me if I am wrong on anything, its been about 7 years since I have owned ferrets. From my experience, they have never had any problems while being on the kibble diet.

The three that I use to own were Marshall's Ferrets, and I fed them the Marshalls Kibble. My oldest was 7, my other two were 5 and 4 1/2, and none of them had any health problems what so ever. They were never under weight or over weight, and I took them to the vet on a yearly basis, all clean bills of health every time. And all were fixed at an early age.

When I was 13, my parents made me get rid of them, I still miss those lil boogers.

Keep in mind, that I am not trying to argue, or state that anyone's info is wrong, I am just stating my experiences on owning ferrets.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

Isn't adrenal caused by malnutrition over a long period of time. I know a friend of mine had a ferret die of adrenal and she fed him kibble. Actually all the ferrets I've ever met or seen have been fed a kibble diet. I'm feeding mine a raw/whole prey diet. I was told this would help prevent adrenal from developing. All my ferrets are Marshall ferrets.

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nope, Adrenal is sadly very common amongst ferrets. Personally i feel that feeding the whole/raw diet will help with prevention. the last batch, i had 3 ferrets,all marshall. 2 got adrenal (one at 5, the other at 6 yrs old) and the 3rd didn't get it till he was about 7 1/2.

i couldn't get mine to eat raw, so they ate a combination of "Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's soul" and "Eukanuba lamb and rice". i fed them the best diet i could find, even though kibble is in general bad for them because there are too many carbs. ideally they should be eating what you are feeding.