From:
"Becky at Shady Pines"
Date: 2007-12-15 23:22:23 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Question on timing of light cycle
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I keep my ferret room dark, with a string of decorative lights as a
"nightlight" but they only get full light while I'm cleaning. I
haven't been operating long enough to know if it helps, but it's
supposedly more similar to how they'd live outside.
On Dec 15, 2007 12:51 AM, Carol J Owens <queenbee@gainbroadband.com> wrote:
>
> I have been giving my ferrets light from 8 am to 6 pm, mostly, for
> several years since I read about the importance of making a long dark
> dark night to stave off adrenal disease. However, someone who fosters
> for us keeps her ferret room dark ALL the time, with the window blocked
> off with foam, and hardly any light on any time except while she cleans
> or feeds.
> What is the importance of light, the quality of light, is she doing harm
> to the ferrets?
>
> Carol Owens,
> Ferret Friends, Inc.
> Tucson AZ
>
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