From:
"Danee DeVore"
Date: 2009-09-08 04:32:06 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] FW: Question concerning ferrets with odd eye colors
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Recently, there have been kits born here in the US with bright blue and
green eyes. This is not a color due to light reflecting off the eye, but an
actual blue or green eye iris, with the black pupil visible in the middle.
I know that ferrets with odd colored eyes have been in Europe for a while.
Cherry Ferrets used to have a number of pictures up on their website of some
of their breeder ferrets who had these odd colored eyes. I have also been
told that Soren Thingaard was also breeding ferrets with odd eye colors.
My question is primarily for European members of the list. Since these odd
eye colors seem to have been in some European lines longer then here in the
US, has anyone seen these ferrets, and do they have any particular health
problems associated with the odd eye color?
The eye color may be purely cosmetic, and not be an indicator of a genetic
fault associated with a health problem. On the other hand, there may be a
relationship between some health concern and the odd eye color.
When the first pandas and blazes appeared, many of them were hearing and did
not display neural crest disorder problems. But, as people started to breed
to produce these color patterns, the neural crest disorders started to
appear.
I am not asking this question to point fingers or lay blame. I am simply
trying to find out what has happened to the ferrets with odd eye colors as
they have aged, and also what has happened to any additional generations of
them that have occurred.
I do know that at least one US ferret organization has taken the stand that
the odd eye color is not standard, and is not something people should be
trying to reproduce. But, I am very interested in finding out if it is a
sign of some more serious genetic problem.
Danee DeVore
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