Message Number: YG13635 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Russell Prater
Date: 2002-06-07 12:38:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Reasons of false pregnancy of ferret jills

> Georgia Mühleis wrote:
>
> Does anybody know the reason of false pregnancy in ferret jills.
> All jills of a friend of mine had a false pregnancy and she is
> desperated because she doesn't know why?

Did she breed them all with the same hob? If she did, I'd guess that her
hob was not producing sperm at the time. I've read that if you put him
with the jill too soon, he can do the act but wont produce enough sperm
and will produce false pregnancies. Of course he could just be steril,
too.

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