From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-11-19 19:16:42 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] RE: Ways to provide darkness?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <3082156.1100891802033.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
yes, I think you are right.
On line there is a pdf of an article based on one of her lectures on bringing ferrets into season (or keeping them out of it) and I think that may be in there.
There was also a melatonin study on rodents which found that light under a door reduced the melatonin naturally produced by the rodents' pineal glands, and a further study found that the green and blue portions of the lights were the worst for reducing natural melatonin production. For us that is a concern because housing is expensive here but most equipment lights are green ones and our ferrets have to share a room with computers.
Author wrote:
> I seem to recall (but may be confused as to the source) something from Dr. Judi Bell on a problem in the breeding cycle created by a light left on in the hall outside the ferrets' room and just by the light that came in under the closed door.