Guest ferretlass Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 i read yrs ago in the countrymans weekly that if you breed silver xsilver it produces a lethal gene, is tis true Quote Link to post
Guest RobW71 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 You will end up with deformities, just like you can by breeding MearleXMearle. Regards Rob Quote Link to post
Guest Bigbob Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Yep it screws up the young for some reason Quote Link to post
Guest WhitbyRich Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 putting silver to silver wont produce silver young anyway. Try a sandy or polecat to a silver,And hope for a couple of silver young. Good luck Quote Link to post
Guest ferretlass Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 putting silver to silver wont produce silver young anyway.Try a sandy or polecat to a silver,And hope for a couple of silver young. Good luck thanks for the replys chaps, its just something i was trying to find out for sure, its been said its not a very good thing to do so i wondered if anyone knew why. You will end up with deformities, just like you can by breeding MearleXMearle. Regards Rob so do you think if i find some info on mearle x mearle iwill possibly find an answer regarding ferrets , or at least an idea of what its all about Quote Link to post
Guest RobW71 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Probably someting to do with a dominant W gene . Regards Rob Quote Link to post
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Probably someting to do with a dominant W gene . Regards Rob The word is recessive genes.-What I understand this to mean is -Somewhere in the gene there is the chromasome for a deformity.Breed a recessive gene to a dominant gene and the dominant overrides the deformity.Breed 2 recessive genes together eg merles ,silvers and the deformities will show in their offspring -1generation later. Quote Link to post
gnipper 6,467 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 putting silver to silver wont produce silver young anyway.Try a sandy or polecat to a silver,And hope for a couple of silver young. Good luck Before i had heard about the not breeding silver to silver stuff i bred a brother and sister together and got a litter of cracking kits, also bred BEW to silver and there was no problems there either. If i remember right i got more silver kits from the silver to silver than the other mating. gnipper Quote Link to post
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