New Ferrets.

[Kaiserdog 20]

Both of my ferrets are getting on a bit now, & so i want to get a couple of younger jills to refresh my hunting team & give the old timers a well deserved rest, will it be okay to let them all live in the same court or, house them seperate?

At present i have one vasectomised hob & a spayed jill.

[stubby 175]

dont see why not, ferrets love the company of others,

[stealthy1 3,964]

Bung those babies in and see what happens, they should be fine.

[JPTfellterrier 65]

dont no much about ferrets but someone in anouther post did recomend introducing them on mutual ground first

[Kay 3,709]

Just give it a try & see how they get along, sometimes it works sometimes it needs several attempts

[farlap 19]

Just give it a try & see how they get along, sometimes it works sometimes it needs several attempts

its usually ok but you could also try a small hutch inside your ferret court or a few days (new ones inside it) before letting them all together. thats what we usually do.

[doddsy1970 9]

In my experience i have found that ferrets take to kits straight away and in some cases they try to mother them. You can only but try and see how it goes.

[The one 8,511]

There socail animals i reckon they will get on fine

[Vissertje 0]

I don't agree entirely. My experience is that quite often when the agedifference is more than 3 years, it's not such a good match. Young kits may be far too playfull en energetic for older ferrets. In that case personally I would prefer to keep em seperated.

 

On the other hand: every ferret is different. So the only way to find out if you can match your kits up with the older ferrets is to just try it and see what happens.

 

Good luck & let us know.

[max abell 196]

As farlap said in his reply

put the new kitts in a cage in the ferret court first for a day or so

We added 5 new kitts to our team last year to add a bit of fresh bloodlines and we done this opened the cage in the court

and never had any probs thankfully the oldens were more intrested in the cage smells and the kitts more interested in the court

eventually they all had a play together and seemed to enjoy each others company went out to the court in the morning and they

were all cuddled up together asleep AAAAHHH as my wife put it

GOOD LUCK YOU SHOULD HAVE NO PROBS