Breeding Ferrets

[Guest bigredbusa]

mmm intresting , my hair is falling out just reading this, im trying to keep up .

 

so how many times could i inbreed

[Kay 3,709]

Stubby i am very trying so i am told but i think its only a name we give them , but if you picked up a ferret from somewhere & it was basically lacking the silver guard hairs but had dark eyes you would say it was a BEW not a silver how would you know the difference

 

Is it the eye colour, do silver ferrets have black eyes or ruby eyes

[andy s410c 63]

Stubby i am very trying so i am told but i think its only a name we give them , but if you picked up a ferret from somewhere & it was basically lacking the silver guard hairs but had dark eyes you would say it was a BEW not a silver how would you know the difference

 

Is it the eye colour, do silver ferrets have black eyes or ruby eyes

Kay i think you have ground Stubby down enough remember your TONGUE SANDWHICH escapade :tongue4:

[Kay 3,709]

Stubby i am very trying so i am told but i think its only a name we give them , but if you picked up a ferret from somewhere & it was basically lacking the silver guard hairs but had dark eyes you would say it was a BEW not a silver how would you know the difference

 

Is it the eye colour, do silver ferrets have black eyes or ruby eyes

Kay i think you have ground Stubby down enough remember your TONGUE SANDWHICH escapade :tongue4:

 

i wish i had said i had a pork peice now

[stubby 175]

Stubby i am very trying so i am told but i think its only a name we give them , but if you picked up a ferret from somewhere & it was basically lacking the silver guard hairs but had dark eyes you would say it was a BEW not a silver how would you know the difference

 

Is it the eye colour, do silver ferrets have black eyes or ruby eyes

 

 

thats what I was trying to say a few posts back, the way you'd know you had a silver, and not a BEW would be a couple of matings down the line, when no BEW are produced, there could be loads of keepers thinking they had BEW's that are in fact silvers, although my jill looks white, on running the hairs the wrong way (backcombing) you can see some silver....

 

if you thought you had a single BEW, I'd say, find someone with anoither BEW, mate them together, if no BEW's are produced from the mating, then one or both must be silvers,

[Corky(amateur) 0]

Hey peeps,

this is a really easy way to picture it. i've recently done this at school so am reasonably clear on it.

Hope it helps

Corky

Dominant_and_recesive.doc

[Crow 1]

The albino gene is recessive to all others; the only way to breed an albino is to breed two ferrets carrying an albino gene - and they could both be polecats in looks.

 

The polecat gene is dominant, just as the silver seems to be but that doesn't mean you can't cross two animals with a dominant gene otherwise we wouldn't be able to breed a polecat with a polecat would we? There are dangers to breeding certain types of silver but that would take too long to go into right now.

 

As for black-eyed-whites? I have a b.e.w. that has only ever thrown silvers when crossed with a silver and a mix of silvers/albinos when to an albino. Therefore he must hold the recessive albino gene which makes it more than likely that a silver must hold two dominant genes!!!

 

There is a ferret genetics site that makes interesting reading if you suffer from insomnia or have no mates!

 

As for breeding white-footed sandies

 

Also, as an aside, I have silvers that have gone through dark silver to light silver and then to b.e.w. as they moult so beware as to what you are breeding too

 

Crow

[Hob&Jill 258]

Just breed the best 2 working ferrets..........we work our ferrets not show them! Breed for work not show....

[Netter 0]

Just breed the best 2 working ferrets..........we work our ferrets not show them! Breed for work not show....

Edited December 5, 2007 by Netter

[dicky das 4]

i was talking to a mate who has bred silvers and bew's for years and he said to get the bew's you breed your lightest sivers each year

[stubby 175]

Stubby i am very trying so i am told but i think its only a name we give them , but if you picked up a ferret from somewhere & it was basically lacking the silver guard hairs but had dark eyes you would say it was a BEW not a silver how would you know the difference

 

Is it the eye colour, do silver ferrets have black eyes or ruby eyes

 

 

thats what I was trying to say a few posts back, the way you'd know you had a silver, and not a BEW would be a couple of matings down the line, when no BEW are produced, there could be loads of keepers thinking they had BEW's that are in fact silvers, although my jill looks white, on running the hairs the wrong way (backcombing) you can see some silver....

 

if you thought you had a single BEW, I'd say, find someone with anoither BEW, mate them together, if no BEW's are produced from the mating, then one or both must be silvers,

 

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i was talking to a mate who has bred silvers and bew's for years and he said to get the bew's you breed your lightest sivers each year

 

 

after reading that, is there a approved colour etc somewhere on a ferret site, relating to a BEW, or is it a colour thats evolved through the years, so in reality its a light silver with black eyes????

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Stubby has a very good grounding in the genetics field so listen to him.Be careful when buying advertised BEW, as silvers and some pale sandies all start life as offwhite kits with black eyes .Moult out as true colours later .In my own experience ,ive never bred a full litter of BEW when breeding two together ,if that makes sense .The remaining coloured offspring will however breed the odd BEW when put back to one .This was a while ago when i tinkered with the gene pool and i expect there is someone breeding them true now .