Tile floors are great as long as you can get your chins potty trained.
I had the first floor of my FF covered with tiles and the second floor with pine boards so I can just vacuum the cage to get the poops / wasted pellets and hays out. Works great!
I have a feisty ferret cage for my only girl, and I'm thinking of buying her a wheel. I've read posts here saying the chin spin can snap the bars and people recommended adding a piece of wood when mounting it.
So here is my question:
1) Does anyone have a picture of the wood trick. I read...
I experienced a similar situation last week and got lots of help on the forum. Thus you may find this thread helpful:
http://chins-n-hedgies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33292
Oops... Charlie, Charlie, what can I say.
This chin lived on peas and corns all his life, poor kid...
Then I hope it is truly acidophilus that does the trick, coz that's all he is getting today apart from his pellets and hay.
Thanks Susan for your explanation! This little guy must be the sensitive one.
I didn't mention in my last post but I did hand-feed him several pieces of dried peas and corns from Charlie to help ease the switch. Maybe these treats contributed to the poop improvement as well.
I'll monitor his...
He took acidophilus last night and ate half Charlie (only pellets) with half Oxbow, and his poops improved significantly today. I just picked up a fresh one and it's about normal now.
I'm so relieved... Thanks everyone for the input!
His weight actually dropped a little, from 340g (two weeks...
Mary, thanks for posting this thread and giving the warning about the plastic bag!
I store my hay in a large Ziploc, and your story startled me! I'm definitely switching to jars!