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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-11-09 15:46:01 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Taking kits away from mum at 2-3 weeks of age?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
I doubt that diet is the situation in the cases I mentioned. It came up in a conversation on aging a few year ago on another lists and several breeders who I have read talking of a range of food types said that they ran into such kits. It might be something like an unusual recessive genetic inclination, but who knows? It did not happen in the majority of their kits from what I recall but that at times kits did not open their eyes until about 6 weeks. I think that I might recall which list it was in so will check the archives there if I get time. They did not speak of it as being all kits or even most kits by any means, but simply as something that happens at times. I do NOT recall them mentioning any other differences with these kits -- just late opening eyes, nothing else. I don't think they got the ages messed up because it wasn't whole litters from what I recall, but individuals within litters.
Well, I looked in that site and if that is where it occurred it was during early years that were flushed by that server or the conversation somehow avoided the word "open" which I think is unlikely.
It is an interesting topic, actually, because what was mentioned to you is so different, and because I can not recall any other conversations I have read, so what really can affect variability in eye opening ages, and how commonly is it seen with whichever cause, and what have breeders who have seen delayed eye opening encountered? In what instances have there been any other problems for those individuals and what ones have there been no problems at all? Were such kits from litters where it was a rare individual situation or not? I have never seen it talked about in depth, just as a rare thing that doesn't matter but which says that aging by eye opening can't be taken as reliable compared to aging by dentition.
Then again, it may be unusual enough and benign enough that there simply has been no reason to discuss it.
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