breeding silver to bew

[Kay 3,709]

[The Silver and the BEW genes are both the same, the silver is how this ferret started off and in his next year he was DEW or BEW]

 

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.Explain this in finer detail mate .I'm no stranger to genetics but this leaves me bewildered

The genes of whites and polecats are different.The bew is closer to the white albino than the polecat ferret and the silver has polecat blueprint ,just different colour.

 

I can only assume Bunnyboy means silvers can loose some of the silver when they moult i think thats what he means

[bunnyboy 0]

[The Silver and the BEW genes are both the same, the silver is how this ferret started off and in his next year he was DEW or BEW]

 

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.Explain this in finer detail mate .I'm no stranger to genetics but this leaves me bewildered

The genes of whites and polecats are different.The bew is closer to the white albino than the polecat ferret and the silver has polecat blueprint ,just different colour.

 

I to am no stranger to genetics and from a line of pure bred albinos all you will get are albinos, where as if the eye colour of black or burgundy are present the white masks the colour of the coat.

 

By using two pure lines one albino and the other polecat all you will get are albino and polecat, this is not taking into account ressive and dominant genes

 

Change the albino line with the pink eye to black or burgundy eyed white and you will at some point create silvers.

 

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

Try this link to find out about the eye colour of ferrets and after all the years at Uni my knowledge must count for something

Edited January 9, 2007 by bunnyboy

[ferreterno1 0]

a mate has a polecat hob which he bred to two unrelated albino jills and ALL kits were polecats

Edited January 9, 2007 by ferreterno1

[beagles 0]

what about sandy ferret over a silver ferret???

 

well....

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Polecat is the dominant gene mate .It depends on whether the parents were true breeding or not as to what mix ends up in the litter.

Bunny boy-Has any of your theory been put into practice or are you guessing as to a ferrets genetical make up .All I know ,through practice and advice ,is that to create a silver ,one parent has to be originally from true breeding polecats which says to me that the blue prints are the same .The addition of BEW is a short cut to silver but the offspring of these 2 silvers put together will not be true breeding silvers and can throw anything .Its a long time since I dabbled with ferret genetics and never wrote anything down as it was ,at the time of little consiquence how I arrived at it but I had true breeding sivers from polecat ancestry Even had a pink eyed silver which sadly died very young .

 

what about sandy ferret over a silver ferret???

 

well....

 

The litter wuold be [depending on the parentage]1/3 sandy ,of which some would border on polecat ,1/3 white ,!/3 silver through to white or a rare mixture of silver and white .

[beagles 0]

so its not goin to afect them kits like deformed or nothink

[Kay 3,709]

[The Silver and the BEW genes are both the same, the silver is how this ferret started off and in his next year he was DEW or BEW]

 

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.Explain this in finer detail mate .I'm no stranger to genetics but this leaves me bewildered

The genes of whites and polecats are different.The bew is closer to the white albino than the polecat ferret and the silver has polecat blueprint ,just different colour.

 

I to am no stranger to genetics and from a line of pure bred albinos all you will get are albinos, where as if the eye colour of black or burgundy are present the white masks the colour of the coat.

 

By using two pure lines one albino and the other polecat all you will get are albino and polecat, this is not taking into account ressive and dominant genes

 

Change the albino line with the pink eye to black or burgundy eyed white and you will at some point create silvers.

 

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

Try this link to find out about the eye colour of ferrets and after all the years at Uni my knowledge must count for something

 

 

I take it you didnt study genetics at Uni :whistle:

[Pugsly 0]

Could anyone please tell me is there any risk/dangers of breeding a silver to a non silver like sandy or polecat coloured ferret that has silver in its background. 
for example a polecat or sandy that had a silver parent. 

[Polecat Lady 0]

It would depend on the deleterious genes that each parent carried.

[The one 8,473]

Check Waardenburg syndrome in ferrets 

[Aussie Whip 4,096]

I know people like something different in their ferrets but health and working ability is the most important. What I've seen, the original polecat color seems to be the most active and healthy, I had quite a few albinos, the only reason being they were a lot easier to see if they came out in long grass or bushes. My best ever ferret Grimm was an albino and fckn ugly, I bought him at a feed store, nobody wanted him but he was a champion worker and could be used like a terrier in blackberries, always getting back in his box after the job was done. The other good ferrets I had were all polecat.