>From:    Jacqueline Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: ferret physiques
>At first I thought perhaps male ferrets were muscled more heavily than
>females, but my other males don't look like the older ferret.--they have
>skinny necks, relatively speaking.
 
Your skinny boys are more typical of early alltered ferrets.  Boys neutered
later have a denser musculature.  The early neutering stops the hormone
generation that differentiates between them.
 
The years seem to mesh but it seemed that the ferrets coming out while Dr.
Bell was there were better developed.
 
-bill
 
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bill and diane killian
zen and the art of ferrets
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[Posted in FML issue 2604]