Message Number: SG11675 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-12-01 20:41:13 UTC
Subject: RE: When
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6050248.1101933673685.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Author wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me when a ferrets adult canines are suppose to come in? Around what age?

About Day 50.

Found an old post in the Ferret Mailing List Archives
rather than retranscribing. Text is _Biology and Diseases of the Ferret_
http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9704&L=ferret-search&P=R21699
According to Fox's vet book:
Upper: C 50 days, P2, 3 and 4 60 days, M1 53 days; Lower: C 50, P2 60, P3
67, P4 74, M1 50, M2 74.

C= canine
P=premolar (bicuspid to dentists)
M=molar