mooster 1 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 Has anyone else experienced this? Had my one year old jill spayed a couple of weeks ago.Took her home afterwards and her mother kept interfering with her stitches so i've seperated them for a week on the vets advice. Tried them together this evening and they tried to kill eachother!!!!!! Naturally,I'll try them gradually over meal time but must say gave me a bit of a surprise and took a bit of seperating! There's never a dull moment with these girls is there?!!! Fiesty or what!! Quote Link to post
Kay 3,709 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 Has anyone else experienced this?Had my one year old jill spayed a couple of weeks ago.Took her home afterwards and her mother kept interfering with her stitches so i've seperated them for a week on the vets advice. Tried them together this evening and they tried to kill eachother!!!!!! Naturally,I'll try them gradually over meal time but must say gave me a bit of a surprise and took a bit of seperating! There's never a dull moment with these girls is there?!!! Fiesty or what!! Jills are a pain in the back side when trying to mix them, i hadnt had any jills for 7 yrs untill we took this stray one in 3 months ago basically for that very reason, there territorial, hormonal & downright awkward, i wouldnt normally be so scathing of a ferret but jills do my head in with there snapping at nothing , mabe its cause i am exactly the same & a bit to close for comfort fiesty hormonal bitch Give me a garden full of hobs anyday Quote Link to post
Kay 3,709 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 Has anyone else experienced this?Had my one year old jill spayed a couple of weeks ago.Took her home afterwards and her mother kept interfering with her stitches so i've seperated them for a week on the vets advice. Tried them together this evening and they tried to kill eachother!!!!!! Naturally,I'll try them gradually over meal time but must say gave me a bit of a surprise and took a bit of seperating! There's never a dull moment with these girls is there?!!! Fiesty or what!! Jills are a pain in the back side when trying to mix them, i hadnt had any jills for 7 yrs untill we took this stray one in 3 months ago basically for that very reason, there territorial, hormonal & downright awkward, i wouldnt normally be so scathing of a ferret but jills do my head in with there snapping at nothing , mabe its cause i am exactly the same & a bit to close for comfort fiesty hormonal bitch Give me a garden full of hobs anyday Quote Link to post
Guest Bigbob Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I used to shuffle my jills around for a turn in with my snipped hob and never had any bother till this year one of my older jills keeps trying to kill one of her kitts from last year . Quote Link to post
Guest DALE_2 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 [quote name= Give me a garden full of hobs anyday thought that said sumthing else then Dale Quote Link to post
Guest Bigbob Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Give me a garden full of hobs anyday thought that said sumthing else then Dale Dont get her started Quote Link to post
darren m 1 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 so you dont recommend me keeping my 3 jills together then Quote Link to post
Kay 3,709 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 so you dont recommend me keeping my 3 jills together then darren i found the main problem was when they come into season, i managed to keep the 9 i had in with the vasectomised hob , he served them and they seemed to not squabble and didnt appear to have the phantom pregnancys . but when he died i had problems, had to seperate all the jills & had then in 9 seperate cages, what a complete nightmare, scrapping, squeeling at all hours of the day & night. Personally if you dont intend to breed in the future get then spayed , Dale what exactly did you think i said, please do tell Bob behave yourself Quote Link to post
Guest DALE_2 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Dale what exactly did you think i said, please do tell Bob behave yourself nobs , and i dont mean the kind who run havoc with bottles of cider in the street , lol Dale Quote Link to post
Kay 3,709 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Dale what exactly did you think i said, please do tell Bob behave yourself nobs , and i dont mean the kind who run havoc with bottles of cider in the street , lol Dale Do you really think i would be inside typing this to you if my garden had a selection of nobs in it thanks for makeing an old woman happy what a lovely thought Quote Link to post
mooster 1 Posted July 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Well the youngster is having her stitches out tomorrow so will try them again after that,got a feeling it's my blood that will be shed trying to seperate them! Quote Link to post
Kay 3,709 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Well the youngster is having her stitches out tomorrow so will try them again after that,got a feeling it's my blood that will be shed trying to seperate them! Hope the introduction goes well try doing it on neutral territory first off Quote Link to post
mooster 1 Posted July 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Tried a short intro tonight sharing food on neutral ground. Fine at first then mother finished eating and then started eratically preening daughter appearing to clean her fur and ears very enthusiastically.I thought i'd cracked it... Then without warning she started throwing her around (even though youngster is twice her size) and chasing her everywhere trying to pin her down. Having said that no blood drawn so i'm inclined to think this is territorial/maternal/hormonal rather than a real threat,as youngster cried out rather than fighting back with any enthusiasm. Sorry if I sound a bit soft about this...i'm fascinated though.I was thinking tonight how interesting ferrets are! Yes Kay ,especially the females!!!!!! Quote Link to post
Kay 3,709 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Tried a short intro tonight sharing food on neutral ground.Fine at first then mother finished eating and then started eratically preening daughter appearing to clean her fur and ears very enthusiastically.I thought i'd cracked it... Then without warning she started throwing her around (even though youngster is twice her size) and chasing her everywhere trying to pin her down. Having said that no blood drawn so i'm inclined to think this is territorial/maternal/hormonal rather than a real threat,as youngster cried out rather than fighting back with any enthusiasm. Sorry if I sound a bit soft about this...i'm fascinated though.I was thinking tonight how interesting ferrets are! Yes Kay ,especially the females!!!!!! if you think about it she was seperated from the mother , made to smell different due to the vets, kept seperated for a futher week , so when you tried to reintroduce them the result was the top ferret wasnt happy at the prospect of a newbie mustling in. It would be like me turning up where you live & raiding your fridge & expecting to sleep in your bed, ( you know what i mean ) you wouldnt be very happy really , so maybe they need to get to know one another again briefly each day & then swap bedding from the 2 cages & try again after a week or so of meetings for 10 mins at a time Quote Link to post
doddsy1970 9 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 My jills are causing me headaches at the moment. Since a select few have been pregnant and the others were nobbled by a hobble There have been times when i thought world war 3 had started. Ive had to seperate them until their hormones have slowed down. Strange thing is they were all sleeping together before they gave birth etc etc Quote Link to post
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