From:
"v.wilber"
Date: 2008-09-19 09:58:06 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Spaying Questions and Pivot's choices: a female in first estrus at 7 months of age
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I have only had two jills o far, the advice I received from many very
experienced ferret owners here in the UK was to get my young jill
spayed just before her first season, she was successfully spayed at 6
months.
Some people do wait until they come into season give them a 'jill
jab' to bring them out then have them spayed a few weeks later. There
is no evidence that either way makes any difference to their future
health so long as they are fully grown by the time they are spayed,
as opposed to the Marshall and other US breeders practice of spaying
as babies of less than 6 weeks.
My second jill was 2 when I got her she was in season and the lad I
got her from had no idea that she had to be taken out of it somehow.
Luckily she had survived her first season, which I have now read they
can do it's the second and subsequent seasons that are the biggest
risk of anaemia.
She was slightly under the weather when I got her so decided not to
spay straight away, there is an increased risk of bleeding in surgery
if they are in season when spayed, she had a jill jab and was spayed
3 weeks later. She has now gone from a sleepy girl who had slightly
enlarged lymph nodes, to a bouncy creature who plays with anyone,
still very laid back and cuddly and a great PR girl who can be
handled by the youngest child.
My advice, as your girl is in season, would be to have her jill
jabbed then get her spayed in a few weeks when her vulva is back to
normal. I am not a vet this is purely from my own experience and
from talking to many more experienced ferret owners over here
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Sukie Crandall <sukie@...> wrote:
>
> One question we don't know the answer to is whether spaying would
stop
> the fighting that this ferret and another have too often. No one
gets
> hurt, but the battling berthas are at it often enough that Pivot
tends
> to have regularly emptied scent glands. We're actually more
worried
> about the one she argues with, Mornie, because sometime Mornie
will
> just hole up under a trunk to avoid Pivot. As a result Mornie is
> getting a lot of "Mornie Time" in other rooms with us.
>
> We have no intention of breeding Pivot ever.
>
> That means our current options are:
> 1. spay now
> 2. medically end estrus now
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