Most private breeders who consider their breeding stock as pets only breed their jills once a year or every eleven or so months as a minimum. Most of us feel it takes too much out of the jill to breed them at intervals any closer than that. While it hasn't been proven, it could also adversly affect the kits being produced by a jill that is bred back too soon before being allowed to recover from recently weaning a litter. Look at the problems MF ferrets have and it is a known fact they breed their jills back at close intervals. I'm not saying the kits from a jill who gave birth in January and has been bred back again in May will definitely have medical problems down the road but it is something to consider. -- Bev Fox Foxglove Ferrets http://www.suite224.net/~ncfs1997/ [Posted in FML issue 3054]