Anyone successfully bred ferret hybrid

[Greyman 28,795]

I done a job in a house just before Christmas and he had a couple of lurches and out back a hutch full of polecats, so we got talking and he said they were European polecats, quite docile and good workers ?? Looked much smaller than the wild polecats I get on my cameras, some of them Hobbs are a fare size 

[comanche 3,038]

On 02/01/2019 at 15:03, Robbusher said:

Wondering if it’s possible for a ferret to breed with anything closely related ie stoats Martin minks has anyone tried to do this and what results did you u get from any kits 

Polecats have been known occasionally to mate in the wild with European mink and the cross has been deliberatly bred in Russian fur farms. Crossing a ferret with a mink is obviously possible ,but it would have to be a European mink not an American mink.

[leeroy 29]

I had a first cross polecat ferret, handled it at least twice a day and every time I walked past. This went on for 7/8 months then over night it changed, it would have a frenzy at the wire and when you opened the cage it would launch its self at you all teeth, I had to be very careful with that. It would have been easer to pet a rattle snake, never again.