One for the lads who have been doing it a while.

[Ideation 8,216]

Might sound odd, but when did you first come across supposedly 'working ferrets' that were Silver or DEW.

 

Reason i am asking is i NEVER saw one or heard of one until the last few years.

 

I was wondering whether some nutbag got hold of some show / pet / yank blood and started intoducing in into our strains.

 

Or is it just 'random' mutation, which have become popular and hence have been selected toward???

[f mac 40]

  On 19/06/2011 at 14:11, Ideation said:

Might sound odd, but when did you first come across supposedly 'working ferrets' that were Silver or DEW.

 

Reason i am asking is i NEVER saw one or heard of one until the last few years.

 

I was wondering whether some nutbag got hold of some show / pet / yank blood and started intoducing in into our strains.

 

Or is it just 'random' mutation, which have become popular and hence have been selected toward???

this is my 1st ferrets in around 6 years and i never saw anything bar the usual albino,poly ,sandy prob just random and some 1 decided to line breed them

[northern lad 2,292]

saw sum about 5 years ago at i think cheshire game fair

[Malt 379]

Never heard of or seen anything other than poleys or albinos until I joined up here in '07.

[The one 8,533]

Heard of them a while ago but deep down south ,then a few arrived up here usually the show brigade and they want fancy money for them .them it takes a few years for them to filter threw to the working guys .

 

I rember reading a advert in the local paper twenty odd years ago for B.E.W.'s and the guy said there £25 each there no for working

[foresterj 1,096]

first BEW i saw were on one of the coneycatcher vids if i remember correctly,silvers,dead easy,inbreed ya poleys for years.got 1 polecat hob 3 silver jills all bred exactly the same,NEVER had ANY silver bred into the line so i assume inbreeding did it.

[tote 856]

I've yet to see a BEW or a silver in the flesh, can't see me going out of my way to find one either.

 

 

 

Years ago all I ever heard of was poleys, albinos and sandys [sometimes referred to as cinnamons], that was your lot.

[Rake aboot 4,936]

fist "black eyed white" I had was around 12 or 13 years ago,,

 

It was from a line of workers that Whin had brought up from down south.

 

ATB

[DottyDoo 500]

8 years ago was 1st time i seen a dew, seen a silver few years before that, dont know why but albino's were favoured when i was a lad

an i can honestly say i still prefer a nice white fitch

[johnny boy68 11,726]

Went to a ferret show in Devon about 10 years ago when on holidays there and seen a silver but didn't see a bew or dew until about 4 years ago.

 

Never owned either and probably won't unless I get one from my breeding.

[philkemp 50]

Up until maybe 3 year ago i had only seen the usual poley and albino now theres a rake of colour about!

[Rake aboot 4,936]

It`s like I have said elsewhere though,,

I am not convinced there is a difference between silvers and whites!! just different ranges of the same thing,, I`ve had silvers from the line I mentioned above that have went white when mature / older !

 

As long as they fill the freezer they could be green for all I care!

[Guest joball]

anyone got pcs of a DEW please?

[Ideation 8,216]

So, as it stands we don't really have any seen before about ten years ago? Now my thinking is, if they were just a random mutation from your standard albino / poly / sandy lines, then they would have cropped up sooner, and people, being people, would have line bred them sooner. So where did they first come in and where from??? Cos same as you guys, before the last few years i had not come across them EVER as working ferrets.

[Ideation 8,216]

Cryptic as ever Mr Warren??? I'm suppose there must have been some knocking about, but no where can i find any record of it in old books either. Just wondered when this revolution happened?