What Colour Is This?

[onthehunt 40]

Anyone seen one like this or similar? am thinking some kind of colour mutation

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Could be the flash, but it looks like it has red eyes ? I dont have a clue about genes, but what would happen if you crossed a albino ferret with a Black (melanistic) ferret? Something like this maybe, thats neither, nor?... Is`nt the black gene more dominant than the white when crossed?

[jennym 39]

He's been Tangoed!

 

Wow, really unusual, love it

 

Going by the attached from American Ferret Association website (gotta love Google!), I'd say Cinnamin?

 

Cinnamon Cinnamons will display a strong reddish cast to the guard hairs. A noticeable color difference exists between Cinnamons and Champagnes; Cinnamons are not as common as Champagnes.

 

Guard Hairs rich light reddish brown

Undercoatpreferred is a golden hue, but a white is acceptable

Eyeslight to dark burgundy

Nose preferred is brick colored, beige/pink with light brown or brick 'T' outline. Pink is allowed but not preferred.

 

http://www.ferret.org/events/colors/colorchart.html

Edited May 7, 2014 by jennym

[vanman1 411]

Ginger lol

[The one 8,395]

Think it is a ginger but theres no colour code to check against need to ask Rakeabout

[onthehunt 40]

He's been Tangoed!

 

Wow, really unusual, love it

 

Going by the attached from American Ferret Association website (gotta love Google!), I'd say Cinnamin?

 

Cinnamon Cinnamons will display a strong reddish cast to the guard hairs. A noticeable color difference exists between Cinnamons and Champagnes; Cinnamons are not as common as Champagnes.

 

Guard Hairs rich light reddish brown

Undercoatpreferred is a golden hue, but a white is acceptable

Eyeslight to dark burgundy

Nose preferred is brick colored, beige/pink with light brown or brick 'T' outline. Pink is allowed but not preferred.

 

http://www.ferret.org/events/colors/colorchart.html

Seen cinnamon, sandies, champagnes genuinely think this is a mutation. ferrets come in all colours and shades. could he pass this colour onto his kits?

[onthehunt 40]

Did you try washing him

Yes. He's been washed twice

[WhiteRabbit 112]

That's pretty bizarre, I feel like hallucinating haha

[GreyRake 108]

Haha, looks like a dirty albino. Albinos do go a little orange, especially breeding season, maybe hes on testosterone overload.

[bobcullen79 1,495]

So, how was he bred then?

[Jedi Master 30]

So, how was he bred then?

 

Albino x mick hucknall ?

[onthehunt 40]

So, how was he bred then?

Don't know, it belongs to my sister. She treats her ferrets as pampered pets

[lifelong cumbrian 1,789]

She hasn't been putting self tanning on it has she.

[The one 8,395]

The closest thing ive seen to that is Labtastic

[krawnden 1,036]

Could be the flash, but it looks like it has red eyes ? I dont have a clue about genes, but what would happen if you crossed a albino ferret with a Black (melanistic) ferret? Something like this maybe, thats neither, nor?... Is`nt the black gene more dominant than the white when crossed?

 

Never seen anything remotely like this before and no idea how it could have been bred. But I doubt it would be albino x black - the gene for albino is recessive, so crossing an albino with another colour doesn't dilute the other colour to give something in between the two.