Ferret breeding

[Peteyboii290414 2]

Hello guys sorry to ask this question but I’m interested in what the answer will be I have herd off not breeding silver Jill to silver hob or silver to bew but is it bad to breed a sandy hob to a sandy Jill I’m still newish to ferret breeding I have 2 sandy Jill’s sisters and a good working sandy hob from non realted stock So I’m wondering when makeong comes around is it okay to breed sandy to sandy or is it bad to breed them 

[gnipper 6,759]

Sandies will be fine mate.

[grompz 706]

 am i missing something here about the breeding of silver jills to silver hobs, and silvers to bew, can someone enlighten me, as to what problems will and can arise from this breeding, let me just say ive bred, worked, and kept ferrets of all types and strains for 60 yrs, never heard this stated before, look forward to any replies, iwill live and learn, asi in the past always produced good stock, from any type of ferrets used, but some were a lot better than others, never had any health problems.

[Ferretman65 2,323]

14 minutes ago, grompz said:

 am i missing something here about the breeding of silver jills to silver hobs, and silvers to bew, can someone enlighten me, as to what problems will and can arise from this breeding, let me just say ive bred, worked, and kept ferrets of all types and strains for 60 yrs, never heard this stated before, look forward to any replies, iwill live and learn, asi in the past always produced good stock, from any type of ferrets used, but some were a lot better than others, never had any health problems.

There is No problems what I've ever heard of I don't think you will get any replies mate

[gnipper 6,759]

Silver is meant to be the ferret equivalent of merle and breeding two together can cause defects, no guarantees it will but it can.

[grompz 706]

1 hour ago, gnipper said:

Silver is meant to be the ferret equivalent of merle and breeding two together can cause defects, no guarantees it will but it can.

have you seen this first hand gnipper, and what were the symptoms, know it happens with merles, with deafness and blindness,but never heard of it occuring with ferrets.

[The one 8,579]

Silver to silver is a bad move but it produces fancy colours so its done , only time i ever had to get a litter put down was that cross the vet said it was like a mother catching measles during pregnancy