yellow brock.

[Guest wex]

I lamped one in North wales nr Chirk about 13yrs ago, it was exactly the same colour as a ferret. And we have lamped white foxes on a number of occasions nr Walsall and on the Wirral. I was never lucky enough to catch any, think i was trying to hard. I also lamped a black fox nr Derby one night.cheers wex

[bigbulls 26]

I didnt think this was a unique thing, though obviously not as common as your standard brock else we would see lots of yellow-uns at the sides of roads, it was just that it had all its perfect markings only they were bright yellow rather than grey. The rest of the brock was white as the driven snow, which gave such contrast to the yellow. Im sure though that there are many variations within the different albino brock, so what i saw as an albino/yellow brock, might be quite different from the next moochers sighting of one.

[Rabbithunter 456]

seen a brown coloured one once.

 

Was out last night starting the pup on rabbits. and i seen four brock's.... little feckers. the number's are on the increase up this end

[para1 11]

Say a dead one at the side of the A415 to Abingdon Oxfordshire.About 2 mths ago.By the time I'd turned my artic around and went back to get a pic Some barstool had stole it .

[J Darcy 5,871]

Tango would be dead right to call it an Albino too. The red eyes tell us it's a full blown albino, completely lacking in pigmentation ( I can't believe I just said that!).

 

It's fur should then be naturally as white as a sheet of paper. Only the action of its sebaceous glands, coupled with the staining of its environment, lend it that yellow look. Rather like a ferret, actually. Look at how clean and white they can appear. Then they tend to go all yellow. Same glands.

 

It actually appears to be found more often in badgers than possibly any other creature out there. Or else it might just be that, because of their nature and habit, badgers survive better with even that 'colouration'.

 

I mean; What hope would a white fox have?

 

Nope...your wrong mate. They can have pink eyes and still have cinnamon pigmentation. If this is the case they cannot be true albinos. A true albino has no pigmentaion at all. I have a photo i took of a wild one with these such markings. Its a lovelly photo, pink eyes and a dudley nose lol.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Always happy to be corrected if it teaches me something new, JD I've definitely never come across such a reference before. Must admit; I started wondering later today, as I reconsidered what I'd said and how that bugger showed defined markings. Unpigmented hair shouldn't show anything.

 

I think my mind ignored that evidence because I simply had no comprehension of another way round it.

 

Anyway, would ye know where these pink eyed, yellow things fit in? Albino is void of pigment. Mellanistic is loaded with black. Then there's the red stuff, " Era ..... " or something. And we have the weird shit they started doing with snakes which I've forgotten the spelling of but sounds like " Loo sis tic ". That would come closest to our yellow badger. But do such things still have the pink eyes? I simply don't remember that far back or so detailed now.

 

Now here's a thing; If so? Wouldn't that make " Albino " ferrets actually 'Loosistic'?

 

Go for it, JD. Rewrite history!

[jigsaw 11,902]

HEY JD STICK UP THE PICTURE MAN,WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT

[Ballybricken 1]

Leucistic .. or something along them lines by any chance DS, fairly common in royal pythons they appear albino but still retain normal eye colour.

My understanding was albinism was caused due to the lack of melanim whereas leucism(spelling??) is caused by the lack of all skin pigmentation.

 

Either way both these genetic defects boost the price of royal pythons from £50 .. to in the region of £700 - £1000