Hi Debbie, The first thing in ferret breeding is fit, long lived and healthy breeding stock and making sure the jill is completely in season before she is introduced to the male. A jill not ready can get damaged by trying to resist the male and or then have a false pregnancy or a small number of surviving kits after some being stillborn. Size and colour is then up to you. I do not like my males to go over 4.5 lb normally I breed for 3.5 lb and jills are around half that. The only time you know what colour the kits are going to be is when you cross a true Albino to true Albino and they all will be Albino. All coloured ferrets are so debased colour wise these days you can only really guess and hope you are going get what you are trying for. With sable to sable cross you have a good chance of all sables but you may not get even one. When you start going for specials like true black eyed whites the fun really begins and sometimes only one BEW kit appears in the litter. Although nearly any colour type is possible with a little research and luck there seems to be health risks with some of the more exotic colour / patterns. Spontaneous throwbacks or spontaneous mutations like a BEW out of a sable sable cross are worth killing for, I have only found 2 in the last 2 years. Chris Lloyd. ICQ no. 44575318 Wessex Ferret Club www.wfc.cwc.net [Posted in FML issue 3473]