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Post by jadeguppy on Sept 30, 2012 18:36:50 GMT -5
One of our new rescues has a very unique color. It is both golden and reddish. I haven't been able to post the pics here, so I'm going to ask that you take a look at him on my petfinder page. His name is Copper: www.petfinder.com/shelters/FL1151.html I just loaded him so his personal page may take a few minutes to load up. Also, how common is it for a sable to start silvering? I have two females that have started putting on a lot of silver hairs, especially around the hips and shoulders areas. |
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Post by Heather on Sept 30, 2012 18:42:19 GMT -5
Sables will often "roan" out. Consider it like us going gray. Some ferrets depending on their genetics will gray out faster and more completely than others.
ciao
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Post by Sherry on Sept 30, 2012 19:16:34 GMT -5
Kind of hard to say for sure, but he almost looks like a chocolate sable. Our chocolate Miss Emily also has that same amber undercoat as well.
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Post by jadeguppy on Sept 30, 2012 19:44:46 GMT -5
What are the chances that he will keep the amber color? He is stunning and a sweetie to boot!
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Post by Sherry on Sept 30, 2012 20:45:50 GMT -5
Emily loses hers come spring shed, but seems to get it back every winter.
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Post by Guest on Sept 30, 2012 22:11:52 GMT -5
We call those chocolates here.  but it could be a change of fur  |
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Post by wuvmyfuzzies on Oct 1, 2012 15:50:52 GMT -5
Three of ours, Bandit, Gizmo and Varee all grew in a golden color after their winter shed this year. But this guy (I saw him Saturday) is STUNNING. It would be awesome if he kept all his gold/copper |
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Post by mustelidmusk on Oct 1, 2012 19:26:14 GMT -5
It's difficult to determine color from a photo, and I am not an expert on ferret colors. The chocolates I have seen typically have lighter guard hairs (legs, and darkest areas are more of a milk chocolate color). But this could simply be my computer monitor distorting colors.
It looks like the undercoat carries most of the golden tones - a lot of times the golden colors are caused by oils in the fur (If you wash the ferret, the undercoat may get a lot whiter).
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Post by Guest on Oct 2, 2012 1:10:52 GMT -5
It's difficult to determine color from a photo, and I am not an expert on ferret colors. The chocolates I have seen typically have lighter guard hairs (legs, and darkest areas are more of a milk chocolate color). But this could simply be my computer monitor distorting colors. It looks like the undercoat carries most of the golden tones - a lot of times the golden colors are caused by oils in the fur (If you wash the ferret, the undercoat may get a lot whiter). Now thats something new for me. I never knew that oils can make ones colour go a bit darker!~  |
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Post by Thérèse on Oct 3, 2012 6:36:51 GMT -5
Oils definitely can cause yellowing and the amount of oils can be affected by hormones (a hob in rut is very oily), diet (poor diet usually) and baths (too much bathing can cause excessive oils to make up for them being stripped).
I forget that most on here don't see as many hormonal ferrets as over here. When I got my Noodles years ago from the NSWFWS they had a white male ferret that had only been desexed the day before and was still hormonal. I said white as that is what his colour underneath was but he was so hormonal he was completely yellow and looked the colour of a banana!
Nearly every entire hob I have gotten has a yellow to him until desexed, then his undercoat goes cream with only the occasional seasonal partial yellowing. The exception of course is Rocket who never lost his sort of yellowness, so I figure that is the colour of his undercoat and not oils.
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Post by mustelidmusk on Oct 3, 2012 8:51:08 GMT -5
Some of you may remember the DMK ferret rescue effort in Ohio.....quite a few of those ferrets, which were all intact, were rather orange. Many or the new owners were completely surprised when they washed their new, unusually colored DMK ferret!  -jennifer |
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