From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-05-14 16:06:51 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Coat Colour Genetics
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Coming up empty on ferrets in
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/JBG
which is too bad because there are ferret
genetic health problems which need more
documentation.
http://nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/Ferrets06/ferrets.htm#contents
click on "reproductive"
and you can work back to earlier years from that.
For just coat color stuff rather than medical
a search of fur industry results using the word
fitch
may be useful, but remember that fur farms kill
their stock very early. Steve and I HAVE had long past
experience with U.S. fur farm ferrets. They tended to
live very shortened lives. Many were downright violent
or would bond completely with only one or two people
and be violent to others. Liver problems were common
in the fur fitch we knew. Fur farms provide one of the
more extreme examples of what can go wrong in the
situations where breeding was not based around the
essential triad:
HEALTH
LONGEVITY
BEHAVIOR
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