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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-12-29 15:43:57 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] yellow fur
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Just to make
> Years ago there was a person who was sold pale orange kits at a premium price >as a special genetic fancy, and the people found that the kits became standard >albinos over time. I can't recall which food route the person used but that was >how it was done.
more clear:
It was NOT that a food choice made the ferrets whiter, but opposite since the seller was artificially making the coats look an unusual red color and then asking for a premium. The seller was giving something in the food to make the ferrets appear to be a color that they were not but I can't recall what was given in that situation. Without that additive the ferrets returned to their natural coloration
There are red ferrets naturally, though, and even red polecats as a less common natural wild variation. Such erythristic polecats have been recorded in Wales and Oxfordshire but may occur elsewhere.
Nor are ferrets the only creatures where the color of skin oil can affect the animal's pelage coloration. Decades ago I worked with a marvelous elderly howler monkey. Her red skin oil was so profuse that wearing lab coats over clothing was essential and hands looked hennaed (until washed) after time spent with her. Another person cut a tiny bit of hair from her and washed it. It turned out that without the oil her hair was no longer the pronounced red of a younger individual. If this effect occurs in individuals who are so far apart I suspect it happens elsewhere, too.
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