Look at the last sentence below. Is it possible that in selecting for neural crest related genetic markings and thereby vastly increasing their representation...
... lot ... I have been selectively breeding my ferrets since 1990 for certain looks (those based on the european polecat) and championship lines. I don't have...
... The traditional looks are not ones which have been associated with problems and you have been responsible that way, Vickie, but as you know there ARE...
Hey, Vickie, I don't think that all of the mail for Yahoo are reaching you and mindspring rejected them when I tried forwarding. It thinks that I am a...
I stop in to the group site and read there, I don't get individual emails or digests. Also, I just upped my spam blocker to high, so that's why you got the ...
In a message dated 10/8/2004 3:57:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... lot ... I have been selectively breeding my ferrets since 1990 for certain looks (those...
But I just had a thought you guys. When I had ferrets as a kid, I didnt know anything about photoperiods, etc. Neither did other ferret owners. Yet we did...
**Moderator Comment** Absolute *NOT* off topic. All of these things you have mentioned, are the direct result of genetic manipulation by selective breeding....
... Actually, I don't think that you are off-topic. The U.S. population used to only rarely produce ferrets with the markings of neural crest variants which...
... Both adrenal and pancreatic islet cell growths (insulinoma) were very rare then. The increase in adrenal growths appeared in two distinct clumps: first ...
Since we are on the subject on breeders causing defects. I would like to ask one. My Sidney passed away in Aug. of this year. She was a deaf-panda female. We...
Hopefully, someone here might be able to answer some of your questions, if not all. My only question is: Did you have a necropsy done? Many (not all) causes...
No, I did not have a necropsy done. When she passed I had an issue with the vets wife, long story, but I just got my little girl and took her home to put her...
Thank you for your kind words too. It is so hard to loose a fur baby and they are sick for a period of time you devote every minute to them. I hardly left home...
Aw gee...I thought Suckie was kinda...uh....hmmm......uhhhh....nice? LOL! Damn Sukie, now you have gone and embarassed Julie! <<GRIN>> MC ... From: "Sukie...
Oh, I see rose blossoms disappearing from your garden to festoon our condo! Yes, I do! (Shoot, it is a little hard to seek across 2,000 miles to swipe...
In a message dated 10/10/2004 12:39:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Not a breeder, just an "oldtimer" in U.S. terms and someone who follows the health and...
My husband was thinking about heridity and genetics with adrenal when he thought of something. He noticed that ever since one of our ferrets has gone adrenal,...
In a message dated 10/10/2004 12:39:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, Ferret-Genetics@yahoogroups.com writes: Errrr, do me a favor. My name is Sukie. Pronounced...
... A pheromone response? It is possible that there is a pheromone response but then the question becomes if it makes a difference or not. As ideas go it's no...
2 interesting news stories on ways that research into genetic things might help in the future. This one is getting normal livers by "turning off"an oncogene: ...
... that ... the ... Nope, it not my site. It's site of one of Russian breeders and both Russian and English version of if contain mistakes. For example, for...
I would like to note that peoples suffered from MEN syndromes show *multiply* endocrin neoplasms, by the other words, neoplasms of different endocrin organs...
Since Web-resources dealing with Mustelides hybrids – khonoricks and so on – contain incomplete or even wrong info, I am posting here a translation from...
V. Khonoricks. The first khonoricks have been originally obtained from interbreeding European mink female with male of the third generation from crossing ...
... Is this the picture you are referring to? http://ferret.ru/images/content/general/khonorik.jpg That pic was in a Akademgorodok gallery on the nsc server...