Julia
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Now you're me blush. The cage I have to my ferrets was build long ago, before i got ferrets, and redesigned after a couple of years damage to the cage. (And course I got more ferrets, they needed a level more to the cage.) Today I would prefer a large ferretcourt, with a large surface to walk on, tiles digged down all over and under, so the ferrets could dig all they wan't. And a shed they could walk into and sleep in, with lots of blankets and hammocks. In there I could also keep their food and equipment. Maybe a little pond in the court, and something to crawl on, like a tree stub?
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Wow.... Brians own "Plaza Ferret" or "Hilton Ferret" My ferrets are envy now.
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Hehe... I can se that my ferrets are pampered. They have an outdoor cage in 3 levels, sand in the botton, and carpets on the other 2 levels. On top shelf they have a box to nest in, besides the 2 hammocks and 4-5 fleece blanckets, scattered arond the cage. I knew one who used hay, but he couldn't get rid of the flees. I have never had any flees on my ferrets.
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Holy Banana!!! He is GORGEOUS!!! Look at that face, you just wanna hug him and kiss him. I wish my silver would look a little like him, she is getting to light these last winthers... :glare:
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There is a risk of getting bad kits. Bad meaning: deaf, with KIT syndrome and so on. I can't se why anyone want's to breed silver ferrets, maybe couse where I live (Denmark) there is enourmous risk of getting sick ferrets out of it. It is not even a risk here, it is a fact, that breed silver to silver in Denmark = ferrets wit KIT syndrome, deafness for %, internal defects as: Enlarged heart, spleen, liver, kidney. Further on the silver ferrets in Denmark don't live for very long, (no ferrets do in Denmark, but silvers are more at risk because the KIT syndrome has given them bad odds from s
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Don't do it. If the jill is slowly starting to swoll up now, she is not mated yet. It is only when she is fully swolen she can be mated. But never the less, you have to seperate them as soon as possible. Even if you hob gets castrated next week, he can still get a jill pregnant up to 3 weeks after. (that is what i have heard) And in that time the jill will be fully swolen and ready to be mated. By him if he is in cage with her. For me. The difference between linebreeding and inbreeding is: Line breeding is done on purpose, to clear out the genes in the ferrets, and to increase
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Stubby - Cause I'm terrible at english. I don't know exactly what he did. But the jill was greasy on the back.
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I agree Lorelai. I wouldn't use that method either. Masmiffy - The things I have heard was that: You leave a hand size rock with a whole/intact hob for him to set his scent on, and then put the smelling rock in to the jill in season. But if it works? I don't know. I just rembered a funny story regarding this. My friend has a jill, and she went into season. She was to young to be mated that year, but her castrated hob got interested in the jill and dragged her around and actually took her out of season. He had the jill in the neck and did all the right things beside penetrating. He eve
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That is some good looking ferrets you got there! The little playful silver jill reminds me so much of my own silver jill, she is a bucket of fun when shes loose. The hob in your wifes arm was adorable!
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I used a V-hob (vasectomised) on my jill. But she got "insane" for a couple of months every year, not having any kits, so I got her spayed. She is much happier now, playing again. I prefer thsi method, and the jill responded well in the beginning, but not having any kits made her strange, and she was very mean to her cage mates. (I could have used a normal hob, but the ferret not good breeding materiel) How about hobstones? I have heard of these? Does anyone use them with succes? To get her out of season there are many many options. Intact hob = kits Vasectomised hob = pregnantcy b
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Ohh no! Why wasn't I told that working ferrets bite!! Then I better stop searching for a new ferret amoung working ferrets... Or not... I actually came to this forum, because I belive that working ferrets are the healthiest, strongest, most "tame" ferrets. So now I wan't me some working ferrets... Some people will belive anything. I can't remenber how many times I have stood with a ferret in my hand explaining to people that it is NOT a rodent, and it is NOT an illeagal otter. And they are not "wild" animals who attack people when they get near them. You can inform the person ab
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Overhere many jills are starting to come into season now, but as far as i know, only the ones who was born in 2007. The older jills are waiting a bit longer. (Maybe they have a better sence of time? )
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The chances are big to get a big sized kit from the parents. But you might consider if you really want a huge ferret. Here in DK we had a man, who wanted the worlds biggest ferrets, for no other reasons other than he loved the big hobs. But the ferrets got too big, weight about 3 kilos. (don't know how much in pounds) The ferrets couldnt lift their own weight, and got lazy and sick from not moving. Some males that weigh about 2,5 kilos has the slightly same problems. Not all thow. When they don't move and get lazy they are not good breeding ferrets either. As they can't last the lon
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Ohhh Wow! Does anyone want to build me one of those perfect ferretcourts? My hands are all thumbs. LOL... I espicially liked the one where the ferrets has a shed to sleep in. I have an outside cage, not a court, but still working for me.
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He looks great! What a friendly face he has....
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Over here, there is also wild ferrets. But most truly wild are found in Jutland, the "wÃld" ferrets in Fyn and Sjælland is mostly wildliving furfarm ferrets that escaped. I found some pictures of truly wild ferrets in denmark. Where i found these pictures, they agree with my observation. That the wild ferrets are smaller than tame. F.eks their weight. Where tame ferrets in Denmark kan weigh up till 1100 g for a jill and 2000-2500 g for a hob. They say that wild ferrets weigh 5-800 g for a jill and 1500 g for a hob. That match with my informations. This one got hit by a car. Bu
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Maybe i'm wrong. I base my statement upon the hybrids i have had in my hands. (about 5 f1, and a dusin others with x'es further out in the linage). They are not 100% wild, only 50% but everyone was a bit smaller than tame ferrets. Only a bit. That made sence in my world, as the tame ferrets we keep are feed good healthy food everyday, they are protected from having to find their own food and catch it to survive, they don't have to dig a hole to sleep in, they get nesting materiel from us people. So my experience with hybrids (F1 only) are: They are a bit smaller than tame ferrets They are
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i want a ferret - will it be ok with that cat??????
Julia replied to tinker's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
My ferrets live ourside, but i take them inside everyday to play with them. My cats deal with them in different ways I have had ferrets for 3½ years Cat 1: Is a nervous kat, 8 years old, hates the ferrets but jump up high where they can't reach him. If they can reach him, he hits them! With a flat paw, no claws. Cat 2: Is a weird cat, 4 years old, she is interested in the ferrets, but get mad at them when they bite her (surprise Ferrets bite), so she hits them also. Cat 3: 13 years old. Runs away as soon as he see the ferrets. No cats has ever tryed to kill my ferrets, i h -
I know of quite a few hybrids here ind Denmark. There is a danish lady who has alot of ferrets, amoung them a couple of hybrid lines. With severel unreleated hybrids. But she is not the only one, there is hybridferrets in a couple of linages here. Not uncommen. In DK we have this "belive" that wild ferrets are stronger and more healthier than tame ferrets. Because they were breed by nature, survivor of the strongest/fittest and so on. So all the bad genes have been sorted away (a prettier word than died). When ever we come across a hybrid or wild ferret it is by accident. No one goes out and
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Very cute kits.
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Wild ferrets stay with their mother for 3-4 months, in that time she learns her kits what to eat by introducing them to it. It is said that they won't eat anything other than what they get to taste in the first few months. As with the wild motherferret, our tame ferrets will learn what is safe to eat from the first 3-4 months with us. Therefor it is important to serve different kind of food to the kits. Everyone knows how stubbern ferrets can be, so it can be a battle to make an older ferret learn to eat new food, if it has been eating the same for a couple of years. It can be done, but
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Julia Well all yours are girly show ferrets so that says it all Hahaha... You haven't seen the hard competition amoung ferretowners at a show I can see. To specify my prefers: I like ferrets that bite, and bite hard. I like their personalities, I like working with them and their temperment. 3 of my 5 ferrets has been a fight, but worth every minute of it. I prefer jills because I think they are more fun.
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Same here. I prefer jills, I think they have more personality.
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julia you are getting me worried now but they are fresh water so should they be ok Don't be worried. I have never heard of a ferret dying because of a fish. I just thought that I would mentcen it. The ferrets won't "die" of one raisin either, eventhough there is a toxic in some raisins. It is said that 7 grapes is enough to kill a dog. And it is true, weird sience. ( http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology...rape_raisin.htm , http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.p...;A=1833&S=2 , http://www.thepowerhour.com/news/grapes_killsdogs.htm , http://www.aspca.org/site/News2?id=16
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I can't see how a bit of fish should harm the ferrets. Use freashwater fish, but be aware that some fish has the enzyme thiaminas, this enzyme can be lethal for the ferrets, as it decompose thiamin in the ferrets body. It can also paralyze and kill the ferrets. My ferrets hasen't been fed fish before, but i would like to try, and if the ferrets won't eat it, then maybe the cats will.