breeding

[T78 4]

i recently bought a ruby eyed,silver jill.she's an excellent worker and sound temperment so i would like to breed from her when she comes into season and keep some of the young. thing is,what colour should i breed her with to get the chance of at least some silver kits? its not that important but i wouldnt mind another silver or two!lol from what i've heard silver to silver is not a good idea,so for instance would a polecat hob just throw poley's?

[Kay 3,709]

i recently bought a ruby eyed,silver jill.she's an excellent worker and sound temperment so i would like to breed from her when she comes into season and keep some of the young. thing is,what colour should i breed her with to get the chance of at least some silver kits? its not that important but i wouldnt mind another silver or two!lol from what i've heard silver to silver is not a good idea,so for instance would a polecat hob just throw poley's?

 

 

i dont know to be honest maybe you will get the ferrets with white toes or feet but poley coloured if you use one, maybe albino will be better

[Guest Magwitch]

The first picture is a BEW x Albino = 1 silver 1 poley and rest albino

 

 

The second is Silver x Albino = 3 silver rest polecats

[T78 4]

so....albino would be my best choice of hob to breed her with?

[Jack NUFC 1]

silver hob over an albino jill, they were out in the run and cuddled up and fell asleep so i took a pic

4 kits 3 silver 1 albino

[ShaggyRS6 0]

The first picture is a BEW x Albino = 1 silver 1 poley and rest albino

 

 

The second is Silver x Albino = 3 silver rest polecats

 

 

Which one is Brian?

[Guest Magwitch]

Hes second from the right i think or is that Beryl

[Ste* 0]

What will happen to the kits if you breed 2 silvers .

[Julia 0]

What will happen to the kits if you breed 2 silvers .

 

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 start).

I don't know how it is with silver+silver matings in England? But in Denmark they are not accepted by responserble ferret breeders.

 

 

The silver color is a dominant gene, so are sable. Sandy and albino are ressicive.

Soif you want a litterof silver kits, find a hob in Albino or Sandy, perferly with some silver siblings, to assure that the hob carys the gene for silver.

[T78 4]

cheers for all your replies. the search for a suitable hob begins.....lol. anyone got one that fits the description,to use when the time comes??

[COMPO 54]

I didn't understand the principles behind silver and bew ferrets until a year or so ago, apparently its like Merle coloured dogs and as Julia points out two silvers can produce young with all the problems she listed.

 

Never bred for colour, always ability!

 

 

 

saying that i like a few different colours to be able to tell them apart in the half light early in a morning!

[Guest Bigbob]

I like all the differnt colours for working a big place you can see at a glance which ferrets not showing ,but i would never breed for colours always worker to worker .

[Jack NUFC 1]

I like all the differnt colours for working a big place you can see at a glance which ferrets not showing ,but i would never breed for colours always worker to worker .

 

spot on

[T78 4]

as i already said,its not that important!!!but if i COULD choose the colour id like some more silvers...whats wrong with having a good working strain in a colour you like?? if she throws all polecat or albino,it wont really matter to me! asthe title says,id like 'the chance of a silver or two'

[Guest Bigbob]

Try a albino ,then try a albino hob over any young next year i reckon thats your best chance