Just a quick comment and I've heard it from others here with a biology
background, too, and they also have read what's out there: there is NOTHING
existing which is worthwhile that ANY have found (in discussions so far) on
genetics in ferrets ***for breeders*** trying for certain results.  Sorry
-- just isn't.  Someday someone who has studied the topic and have enough
exposure to breeding results will do something but right now what exists
is a mish-mash of good observations and conclusions mixed with illogical
conclusions, so some are partly okay but who's to tell which part is which
if either the education background or the breeding experience is missing?
 
Oh, and an off-hand comment.  Waardenberg (sp?) may not be as benign as
many of us have thought, ditto some of the dilutions according to some
private discussions recently.  There was private discussion going on
recently in which someone helped an acquaintance by contacting me and then
having me contact a certain vet -- kind of a four way haul (but the vet and
I well knew the person asking for the acquaintance so it was okay) and can
be some serious medical results in some litters.  In this case many of the
kits were dying rapidly in a color-diluted mating with a DEW and it was
not the first litter to have that happen, plus the health of the surviving
off-spring isn't something one can be sure of when such problems show up.
[Posted in FML issue 2934]