Hi, Joan! We also wound up with a whole female from Colorado Ferrets
way back when. I remember having to tell people who didn't believe me
that MF and Winstead Ferrets (which began with MF breeders) were not
alone, though MF rapidly accounted for a high amount of the ferrets
and early genetic representation among American ferrets back then.

You ask:

>P.S. to Sukie...who was that breeder who had the orange ferrets?
>Wasn't she from MI???

The ones who had true orange and auburn seemed to be from multiple
places. They were gorgeous. I was told by one person that they tended
to not be particularly fertile, though. Even early PV had some of them.

I can't remember where the person was who got the orange by giving a
food that changed skin oil color and dyed the coats, just that the
individual stopped breeding. I **think** the ferrets were called
"tangerines" by the breeder, *****but take into account that I might
be confusing names of the colorations or more than one place may have
used the name*****. If they didn't precede the years for which there
are FML Achives you should find them in there.

This refers to them:

<http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/SCRIPTS/WA-FERRET.EXE?A2=ind9502&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R16187>

and the AFA's call was apparently right.

Okay, and this says they were from a place called TPP:

<http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/SCRIPTS/WA-FERRET.EXE?A2=ind0010&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R28843>

Some more (which refers to 700 breeding stock redistributed and some
some malformations) and I think refers to the same farm:

<http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/SCRIPTS/WA-FERRET.EXE?A2=ind0010&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R31601>

There are others. The search time frame seems to be within the space
from Jan 1995 to Dec 2000 and it sounds like the farm was LARGE (many
hundreds) and apparently short lived. Some posts referred to it as a
backyard breeder operation.

but ***** I can NOT guarantee that I am not confusing someone's actual
genetic cinnamons with the ones that had diet related redness *****

I don't particularly pay attention to who is breeding what so I
constantly forget that, just care about what is genetic and what
is not.

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html

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