Message Number: SG3480 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: FHbytheSea@aol.com
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:53:44 EST
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] ferrets with no tails!!!
Message-ID: <17d.17f976ad.2b95edc8@aol.com>
In a message dated 3/3/03 1:11:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
e.burt@student.murdoch.edu.au writes:
<< I am wondering if any of you have ever heard about this kind of thing
ocurring before. Could it be that the male was her brother and the young are
inbred, hence the deformity? >>
Emma
I would hazard a guess that if it is not the jill grooming the tail off, it
is a genetic defect involving the skeletal structure of the ferrets and I
would have them and the parents desexed. My reason for altering is that you
don't know what other problems within the skeletal structure exist and
honestly breeding these ferrets is not in the best interests of the species,
in my opinion.
Lisa Leidig, Head Ferret
The Ferret Haven "By-the-Sea"
www.ferrethaven.org
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