Ferrets

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

just found this on google images but i think that it is a mink , not sure though!

 

Deffo mink mate!

[Kay 3,709]

The coat looks like its fairly light underneath, is it just dark guardhairs ?

[sniper 30]

just found this on google images but i think that it is a mink , not sure though!

 

Deffo mink mate!

i think its a mink it has a broader jaw

 

The coat looks like its fairly light underneath, is it just dark guardhairs ?

i dont have a clue just found it searching through the web ,, Cheers Sniper

[Kay 3,709]

No i ment the pic of the dark ferret not the mink

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

That dark ferret is just a dark from of european polecat, ive seen a couple of dead ones, exactly the same colour up here (border). Could easily be pure wild polecat or crossed with other dark ferrets. Either way the wild blood in it will be very strong. Wont have anything to do with crossing with mink.

Edited August 3, 2008 by dogs-n-natives

[TOMO 26,641]

OK i have a jill exactly the same as the one julia put up , she has just had 4 kits, but to an albino, the colour does change slightly , in winter she is slightly lighter, but come somer she is black. of course her name is mink. at the moment she also happens to be my best worker, and is easy to handle

[Flying Ferrets 0]

The black ferret is darker that the wild polecat. even though a polecat can be very dark.

The black colour has been bred though by man and still is.

 

I'll post a couple of pictures as soon as I get the premissiom of the poeple with the copyright.

Edited August 4, 2008 by Flying Ferrets

[Flying Ferrets 0]

pictures of a black ferret.

This ferret is from a black line, its inbred.

 

a black pup, you can really see the difference here as wild pups are still pink (can be a little grayish) but this ferret has very dark skin, the skin becomes slightly lighter though the years:

 

original links: http://www.tunderkennel.hu/image.php?img=423 , http://www.tunderkennel.hu/image.php?img=470

 

and a wild born polecat:

 

a polecat can be darker but its never as dark as a true black ferret. A black ferret has the same black colour all over the body and a polecat does not.

 

 

many black ferrets have extra teeths when they are pups, most looses them when they change teeths. There are no known polecats in the original black lines, but some breed it in to keep a dark colour. Bob church (if you know of him?) believes that the black ferret lines are related to the european mink as they were crossed with ferrets many years ago because of the fur. But I don't know about that. fact is that black ferrets do exist.