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Date: 2005-04-09 04:22:25 UTC
Subject: 2 frts lost topcoat around base of tail
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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I have two out of ten young ferrets, each is not even a year old but coming up on it. These two are males and each has white hair visible around their tail bases. It looks like their topcoat, the long colored hairs, are not growing there anymore.
Is this the beginning of adrenal. Or do ferrets lose all their fur at once. I thought they are young for adrenal.
I am getting melatonin implants tomorrow. Should I wait on that for them? Will it MASK the adrenal disease if I get it?
I wonder if anyone else's ferrets shed and get white around the base sometimes.