Pat,
 
 
A male ferret will usually come into season in Jan. and go out in
Aug. or Sept. A female's breeding season usually runs from Feb. or
March through Aug. or so. Artificial lighting wrecks havoc with
their cycles and they can come into heat just about any time of the
year. When a female is bred she will either have a litter of kits in
6 weeks or if she falsed she will come back into heat again in about
8 weeks or so. Your ferret sounds pretty normal to me. As to
breeding her again I'd reconsider it if the vet really thinks she
has a misformed uterus. You could be risking Lucci's life if she did
get pregnant and had problems delivering. I had a jill who had an
awful time delivering this past summer. It was her first litter. She
would have trouble delivering a kit and labor would stop. The last
kit had to be delivered by c-section (it was dead). Only 4 out of 9
babies survived delivery. I had her spayed at the same time.
 
Cindy Sooy
 
[Posted in FML issue 0943]