http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/ A list for those wishing to learn, teach, or debate about genetics in the domesticated ferret. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:10:10 GMT Joan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4389 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4389 It would certainly bear keeping in mind Joan Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:06:20 GMT Sukie Crandall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4388 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4388 It is important to remember that it is a possibility, but that it is not an absolute, because in many species lighter color animals are very strong, and there Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:19:51 GMT jbclague http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4387 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4387 ... Definitely! I first learned about the connection between dilute color and a weaker immune system more than 40 years ago, when I wrote a long time UK Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:45:49 GMT Danee DeVore http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4386 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4386 Well, it may have nothing to do with ferrets at all. I have not heard of any reports of ferrets with CHS. But, in some species dilute coats do mean a Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:54:33 GMT DJ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4385 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4385 Thank you Danee!! I'm going to send the link to my vet. She is still learning and this will be very helpfull. Not that she sees mink, but if this can also Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:24:27 GMT Sukie Crandall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4384 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4384 Thanks so much for the details, Danee! I could not recall the exact details and lacked the time to check. ... Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:44:37 GMT Danee DeVore http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4383 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4383 Lighter colored mink - particularly the blue mink (called Aleutian) all have an genetic problem called Chediak-Hagashi Syndrome. This genetic defect affects Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:10:44 GMT DJ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4382 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4382 Funny you should say that. Females do not go unaltered from me unless I personally know the person and they have a surgery date already sceduled and I do call Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:04:14 GMT Barbara Sikkink http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4381 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4381 Exactly. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:54:51 GMT rtkowaluk http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4380 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4380 ... I totally agree with much of what has been said. Though I would not recommend inbreeding until you know your lines. Though as someone already said, it can Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:17:29 GMT DJ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4379 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4379 Thank you Sukie, I do. I had even taken in a MF ferret years ago with an undershot jaw, agbout 8mm. I refused to adopt him out as I was concerned that he Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:10:24 GMT DJ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4378 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4378 Believe me, I know Danee cares about her breedings, that she and I have in common. That was one of my majore concerns about the breeding of close relations. To Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:45:37 GMT Sukie Crandall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4377 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4377 Sounds like you believe in placing the animals first. I respect that in a breeder. ... Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:28:01 GMT Sukie Crandall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4376 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4376 Some people are very careful when breeding close relatives to check for problematic recessive traits but others are not so it needs to approached only with the Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:25:28 GMT fuzzylovingferrets http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4375 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Genetics/message/4375 I agree with you on this and I do keep in contact with all who aquire kits from my breedings as long as they don't change their phone numbers and or move