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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 20:36:28 GMT -5
Can you please post pictures of your pregnant ferrets? It's illegal to breed where I live, so I've never seen one lol
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Post by Heather on Apr 11, 2016 23:15:48 GMT -5
Lady Lola   She had kits about 4 days later ciao |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 1:23:01 GMT -5
This was Petal last year about 3 days before delivering her litter of 5.  Will get some pics over the next few nights of her sister, Daisy, and mum Mischief who are both getting little tums. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 11:00:57 GMT -5
Aw I love their little bellies lol
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Post by Heather on Apr 12, 2016 12:49:20 GMT -5
Little?!  We would see her rolling down the hall. Hubby accused her of swallowing a watermelon (which is probably why she bit him) I have to admit I used to refer to her as my wee bowling ball. She was fat and snuggly and just a bit bitchy....which was nothing to what she turned into after those kits were born  ciao |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 14:45:12 GMT -5
I have one who has swallowed a satsuma!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 6:02:44 GMT -5
And just for comparison ... this hopefully a false pregnancy belly (vas hob) ... but will let you know by the end of the week whether it's a preggy belly or false belly!  |
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Post by Heather on Apr 17, 2016 10:50:40 GMT -5
LOL...I've had a pair of wee jills who looked more pregers than their mom who'd been with a hob lol. No one was pregers. I hope your v-hob has done his job well but not too well lol
ciao
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 5:44:34 GMT -5
Well ... there's no falsing jill going to beat Mischief's belly ....  She passed the mucus plug last night by the look so today could be the day. In the meantime she's as chilled out as ever and enjoyed her brekkie this morning. There might be eeps when I get home from work! |
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Post by katt on Apr 23, 2016 2:19:21 GMT -5
This was Petal last year about 3 days before delivering her litter of 5. Will get some pics over the next few nights of her sister, Daisy, and mum Mischief who are both getting little tums. Tiny little silver! I assume she was a rescue? What's her story? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 10:52:07 GMT -5
katt She's one of my jills out of Mischief's last litter so not a rescue. I breed small size ferrets as there are some 40 year old small size lines out here with really impressive health and longevity.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 23, 2016 11:00:32 GMT -5
I guess we are just surprised to see silver mitts, since over here they are considered "fancies" and so prone to a wide variety of health issues.
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Post by katt on Apr 23, 2016 11:36:35 GMT -5
katt She's one of my jills out of Mischief's last litter so not a rescue. I breed small size ferrets as there are some 40 year old small size lines out here with really impressive health and longevity. Oh. :/ I assumed she was a rescue since she is a silver and they are notorious for having more health problems and having a much, Much higher incidence of neural crest problems in their offspring.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 13:38:09 GMT -5
It's a bit difficult when it comes to silver in the UK ... a lot of these observations have been made mostly from Marshall's ferrets and it doesn't always follow over here.
I have to say I haven't noticed a difference in health between my silvers and sables. In fact out of two half brothers and a group of 6 ferrets, my silver hob was the quickest to overcome influenza. There seems to be much more play of the actual genetic line than the colour type.
Having said that, I never breed silver to silver nor have I ever bred a silver to any other colour that has one silver parent.
Depending on the line and source of ferrets, different colours seem to show different problems, personally I have experienced most health problems in sable, sandy and albino ... but having said that it is a relatively small number of ferrets that I take this from ...
Just thinking on this ... in most literature and reports, silver is stated as a recessive trait. Recessives frequently are associated with poor immune function, reduced longevity and various abnormalities.
The gene in my ferrets is a dominant gene so quite different from that described in other parts of the world also.
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Post by katt on Apr 23, 2016 18:22:00 GMT -5
Colors with a higher percentage of white have been very highly correlated with neural crest disorders in many species - and is very evident in ferrets. Melanocytes (the cell responsible for producing pigment for the less science inclined members), originate in the neural crest. Messing with genes in the neural crest puts one at VERY high risk of creating other issues in the neural crest line. Neural crest disorders occur as a result of recessive OR dominant genes - both are well documented.
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