From:
smhewett@dodo.com.au
Date: 2005-12-29 07:41:22 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: yellow fur
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
All of my white ferrets become varying shades of yellow when they get their new coats. Biss becomes almost orange, while Jack used to become a very pale apricot. (I've put a couple of pics of Biss in an album called "Biss" so you can see the difference.) Biss is an entire female, so shows a very marked yellowing. The sterilised ferrets do not become as bright in colour. As the weeks pass, the sterilised ferrets become white again, but the entire ones keep their colour. This is one thing that I noticed in the US ferrets that I saw; The ones in heat did not have the marked yellowing of fur. Diet? Mine are fed whole small prey and parts of prey & raw egg yolks.
The colour comes from the oil in the skin so I would guess that your little rescue is responding to a better diet and that the yellow will fade over time.
Author wrote:
> The rescue I have lost most of his hair (due to neglect, starvation and I
> think maybe a diet of dog food), but is growing back nice soft healthy fur
> now. What has me scratching my head is the new fur is yellow (he's a
> silver mitt). Why is the new hair this color? His fur where he didn't
> lose it is all normal colored (head, neck, legs, chest).
> Jeanne
> alaska
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